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Monday, May 19, 2014

How To Optimize Your Wordpress Site & Increase Traffic

By Meagan Smith


If you are the owner of a low traffic Wordpress blog and you are looking to increase both your traffic and sales then pay close attention. In this article we are going to talk about some of the key plugins and things your blog should have if you want to be successful and stand out from the competition.

The first thing you should do is make sure you have all the necessary plugins installed. Of course the plugins your blog or website will need depend entirely on what type of site you are building. However there are some basic SEO plugins we recommend you install on every new Wordpress site. The first one is All-in-one seo plugin which is very helpful when it comes to optimizing meta data for both your pages and individual blog posts.

Another plugin we strongly recommend is the Google sitemap plugin. You can find it for free by searching in the Wordpress plugin directory. This plugin will help you get your content get index faster on Google. Sitemaps are great because it makes your pages and content easier to find for search engine spiders.

SEO should not be your only focus when it comes to optimization. Keep in mind that social media is huge right now and sites like Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and many others get millions of visitors every month. Your Wordpress site should be social media friendly and there are plenty of plugins to help your visitors to easily share your content across all social networks.

We hope that the information in this article has provided you with tips and suggestions on what areas of your site you need to work on. The goal was to show you how to properly optimize your site in a way that will help you increase your traffic and hopefully sales for whatever products and services you might sell.




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