In this post, we are going to discuss a few things that are very important while publishing your first blog post. There are several factors of SEO you need to understand.
We will discuss the following –
- Category
- Image
- Tags
- Editing URL
- Add plugins
- WP Smush
- Social Share Plugins
- Category – Category simply means classification or which topic your content belongs to.
- You can simply add a new category from Posts option. Click on category -> Add new
- The main benefit of the category is to identify the title.
2. Image – Images are the main thing that you must add to your blog post because your post looks much better and more readable. If you write only content then there are fewer chances that your traffic will stay for more time. But when you add image then it looks more attractive.
- Click the link below for understanding how you can create an image, thumbnail, banner in just 2 mins.
- Note: Don’t copy from google because of copyright issues.
You can easily add an image by clicking on the (+) option and then click on the image then upload the image.
3. Tags – Tags simply means keywords. Keywords are a very important part of SEO to attract traffic so you have to use keywords that are relevant and people usually using it. So for keyword research tools, I already wrote a post you can check.
4. Editing URL – URL editing is also beneficial for SEO because google can easily identify the keywords used. So make the URL short and simple, relevant, use keywords.
You can easily edit your URL in the document section(Permalink).
5. Add plugins :
- WP Smush
- Social Share plugin
WP Smush plugin is used for customizing images without losing image quality. So this plugin is very beneficial for you in decreasing page load time. You can easily smush 50 images at a time for your older posts. And you can smush unlimited images in the pro version.
- You can easily install WP smush in the plugins option and search for WP Smush – > Install and activate -> Open -> Click on Smush.
Social Share plugin – Social Share plugins are very beneficial for you when people start reading your blog post and you have written something very good so they might share with someone. So it is very beneficial for you in increasing traffic automatically.
After a certain level, this thing will be in auto-pilot mode. You don’t need to give any advertisements.
