Why I boast about Yoast.
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Yoast is a plugin that anyone whoshad anything to do with a website should know about. And if you dont, Imgoing to take you back a couple of steps to let you know why you should!
Of course, SEO is at the forefrontof the mind of any small business owner whos concerned with SEO and improvingtheir ranking. Im not going to lie, I find the whole SEO thing a minefield butIm getting much better and learning a lot as I go.
One of the things that I strugglethe most with is how consistent you need to be to improve your ranking and thatthere are no quick fixes. So Yoast, which is a Wordpress plugin, really makesmy life easier for the following reasons:
It shows meta information as you go.
Pre-Yoast (I was uploading my own content at this point, and still do a lot ofthe time) Id upload a post or page, save it and go and check the preview insocial media to see what it would look like in a Google search, so many extrasteps! With Yoast it shows you what the Google preview looks like as you typewhich saves so much time and gives you a feel for what the user experiencestoo.
It gives your content an SEO value.
My favourite feature. Im not a content writer so while I can put a blog orsome copy together, it doesnt come naturally to write with keywords in mind.With Yoast, it rates my content and gives me suggestions on how I can improveit to be more SEO friendly. It shows your keyword density score so that youknow if youve not put enough in, or on the other hand stuffed it too much.
It generates a sitemap.
Another area that a lot of non-experts miss out on is their site map. I had noidea how important it was until I got stuck in to this whole thing. Yoursitemap talks to Google and tells the robots where they can go for furtherinformation making it a prime piece of SEO real estate on your website. Yoastautomatically generates the site map without you having to do a thing.
Do you use Yoast, or have you found a betteralternative as an SEO plugin? Would love to know what you love or hate aboutit, or even if Im missing out on a better alternative?!
Of course, SEO is at the forefrontof the mind of any small business owner whos concerned with SEO and improvingtheir ranking. Im not going to lie, I find the whole SEO thing a minefield butIm getting much better and learning a lot as I go.
One of the things that I strugglethe most with is how consistent you need to be to improve your ranking and thatthere are no quick fixes. So Yoast, which is a Wordpress plugin, really makesmy life easier for the following reasons:
It shows meta information as you go.
Pre-Yoast (I was uploading my own content at this point, and still do a lot ofthe time) Id upload a post or page, save it and go and check the preview insocial media to see what it would look like in a Google search, so many extrasteps! With Yoast it shows you what the Google preview looks like as you typewhich saves so much time and gives you a feel for what the user experiencestoo.
It gives your content an SEO value.
My favourite feature. Im not a content writer so while I can put a blog orsome copy together, it doesnt come naturally to write with keywords in mind.With Yoast, it rates my content and gives me suggestions on how I can improveit to be more SEO friendly. It shows your keyword density score so that youknow if youve not put enough in, or on the other hand stuffed it too much.
It generates a sitemap.
Another area that a lot of non-experts miss out on is their site map. I had noidea how important it was until I got stuck in to this whole thing. Yoursitemap talks to Google and tells the robots where they can go for furtherinformation making it a prime piece of SEO real estate on your website. Yoastautomatically generates the site map without you having to do a thing.
Do you use Yoast, or have you found a betteralternative as an SEO plugin? Would love to know what you love or hate aboutit, or even if Im missing out on a better alternative?!
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