As consumer demand for video content grows, the WordPress sites you build will have to accommodate for that demand. This means creating high-quality video content, ensuring that you have enough bandwidth for it to play without issue, and placing it within prime real estate where it’s bound to get noticed on the website. There’s also […] View original post at …
Scanning and Fixing Your WordPress Site for Free with WP Checkup
When it comes to your WordPress website, what you don’t know can hurt you or at least your website. Instead of taking that chance, you can get free scans and fixes with WP Checkup. Tracking your WordPress website regularly for issues is important. That’s how you can prevent major meltdowns of epic proportions or at […] View original post at …
5 Best SEO Tools for Checking Google Keyword Rankings
It’s important to pick the right keywords when you first create a new website. After all, you’re not just using keywords in blog post or page content, you’re using them in slugs, tags, and meta descriptions. So, if you don’t choose the right ones the first time around, you’ll have to revise later in order […] View original post at …
Why Image SEO Needs to Be a Priority (and 9 Ways to Do It Right)
In this age of streaming video and podcasts and truncated social media messaging, your audience has come to expect a certain amount of convenience and speed in which they can consume content. And why shouldn’t they? If there is technology readily available and web development techniques that help you create content in this manner, there’s […] View original post at …
WordPress SEO Tools for Every Budget
Five years ago, you might not have considered SEO an important part of your job as a WordPress web developer but times, they are a changin’. As this online marketing tactic has gained notoriety and importance as an organic method for driving web traffic for your clients (and your own online properties), your web development business […] View original post at …
7 WordPress SEO Plugins to Get Your Site on Google’s Front Page
We often talk about our performance and security plugins here on the WPMU DEV Blog, but did you know we have a nice collection of SEO plugins too? We’ve been developing SmartCrawl, our primary SEO plugin, for a few years now (it used to be called Infinite SEO), and we’ve got a huge update to […] View original post at …
15 Ways to Get High-Quality Backlinks to Your WordPress Site
Do you remember when black hat SEO was a major problem? Google eventually caught on to these unethical SEO tactics employed by shady (and, let’s be honest, lazy) people, so it may not have had a chance to get too close to you. Nevertheless, if you’ve ever had a client ask if you knew where […] View original post at …
How to Get Your WordPress Site on the First Page of Google
The question of this generation seems to be: “How do I get more traffic?” One of the biggest pieces of the answer lies in understanding how to get Google’s search hive-mind to find your content and present it in search results, but this can be an incredibly complicated thing to do. There are tons of […] View original post at …
Review: Is The SEO Framework the Best Free SEO Plugin?
When it comes to SEO and WordPress plugins, there’s plenty of choice. The reality is, though, that most users tend to fall back on the most obvious and popular choices without giving much attention to the up-and-comers. Besides our own SEO plugin SmartCrawl (which is currently in the midst of a pretty exciting development update!) and […] View original post at …
Google Search is Going Mobile-First – Here’s What It Means for Your WordPress Site
If you’re a WordPress website admin who is starting to feel some heat over Google’s mobile-first index and how search engine rankings will be affected as a result, you’re not alone. Webmasters and SEOs are scrambling to transform antiquated websites into more mobile-responsive versions. But before making any major changes, it makes sense to know […] View original post at …