Sunday 18 May 2014

Optimizing Your Wordpress Site To Get More 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 great plugin which will help you with SEO purposes is the Google sitemap plugin. Let's face it, Google is where you need to be if you want to attract targeted traffic to your site. Sitemaps are a great way to help search engine spiders crawl your site and index your content faster. You can search on the Wordpress directory to get many free plugins you can install.

But SEO should not be your only focus, in fact in the age of social media and the popularity of websites like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and others your site should be social media friendly. There are plenty of plugins to help you make your site social media proof. After all you probably want people to share your content on the social networks.

The information in this article is designed to help you understand what areas of your Wordpress site you can improve. Optimization is everything and if you want to get more traffic and hopefully increase your sales you need to be sure you are doing everything you can to make your site stands out.




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