{"id":5247,"date":"2019-10-14T11:07:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T11:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/?p=5247"},"modified":"2026-02-01T08:52:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T08:52:52","slug":"essential-wordpress-seo-tips-for-beginners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/essential-wordpress-seo-tips-for-beginners\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Essential WordPress SEO Tips for a Beginner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of 2019, 34% of the total website is built on the WordPress platform. With the continuous update and changes in the search engine algorithms, ranking higher is not that easy task. You must be up to date with each and every algorithm update and keep implementing different SEO tactics to get better results, especially in today&#8217;s competitive world.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250421180744\/https:\/\/www.ratojob.com\/30-seo-interview-basic-questions-answers-part-two\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Search Engine Optimization<\/a><\/strong> task is easier for WordPress websites. Because the dedicated WordPress plugin makes it easier for SEO guide. In our previous article, we have listed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/essential-wordpress-plugins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10+ Essential WordPress Plugins for a brand new website<\/a>. Which you must have to install at any cost.<\/p>\n<p>In this post, we are going to discuss WordPress SEO Tips for a Beginner. Because these are fundamental task we should do prior to performing advanced Search Engine Optimization.<\/p>\n<p>Read- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/on-page-seo-for-wordpress-website\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>15+ Actionable On-Page SEO Techniques for WordPress Website<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_83 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a11ece21762c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 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class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/essential-wordpress-seo-tips-for-beginners\/#1_Setup_Proper_Permalink_Structure\" >1) Setup Proper Permalink Structure<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/essential-wordpress-seo-tips-for-beginners\/#2_Optimize_Images_Before_Upload\" >2) Optimize Images Before Upload<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/essential-wordpress-seo-tips-for-beginners\/#3_Manage_Plugins\" >3) Manage Plugins<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/essential-wordpress-seo-tips-for-beginners\/#4_Install_Cache_Plugin\" >4) Install Cache Plugin<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/essential-wordpress-seo-tips-for-beginners\/#5_Choose_Proper_Theme\" >5) Choose Proper Theme<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/essential-wordpress-seo-tips-for-beginners\/#6_Create_a_Sitemapxml_and_Robotstxt\" >6) Create a Sitemap.xml and Robots.txt<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/essential-wordpress-seo-tips-for-beginners\/#7_Use_Right_SEO_Plugin\" >7) Use Right SEO Plugin<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/essential-wordpress-seo-tips-for-beginners\/#8_Setup_Google_Analytics_and_Google_Search_Console\" >8) Setup Google Analytics and Google Search Console<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/essential-wordpress-seo-tips-for-beginners\/#9_Use_CDN\" >9) Use CDN<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-11\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/essential-wordpress-seo-tips-for-beginners\/#10_Maintain_Proper_Internal_Link\" >10) Maintain Proper Internal Link<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-12\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/essential-wordpress-seo-tips-for-beginners\/#11_Keep_Checking_Broken_Links\" >11) Keep Checking Broken Links<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-13\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/essential-wordpress-seo-tips-for-beginners\/#12_Make_Your_Content_Shareable\" >12) Make Your Content Shareable<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-14\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/essential-wordpress-seo-tips-for-beginners\/#13_Write_Quality_and_Detailed_Content\" >13) Write Quality and Detailed Content<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-15\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/essential-wordpress-seo-tips-for-beginners\/#Final_Words\" >Final Words<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"13_WordPress_SEO_Tips_for_a_Beginner\"><\/span>13 WordPress SEO Tips for a Beginner<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1_Setup_Proper_Permalink_Structure\"><\/span>1) Setup Proper Permalink Structure<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>When it comes to SEO, permalink plays a great role in ranking. Permalink is the website permanent URL seen in the search bar of any browser. For the WordPress website, you have different choices of how your permalink will look like. But, among them recommended setting for best SEO practice is setting www.yourdomain.com\/%postname%\/ as shown in the fig. below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5252 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Permalink-Setting-for-WordPress-Website.jpg\" alt=\"Permalink Setting for WordPress Website\" width=\"1664\" height=\"660\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One good reason for setting permalink as &#8220;postname&#8221; is easy to guess what is post is all about and the keyword can also be seen in URL.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tips<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Try to keep the URL as short as possible<\/li>\n<li>Try to include the main keyword in the URL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"2_Optimize_Images_Before_Upload\"><\/span>2) Optimize Images Before Upload<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Media like images and videos are important parts of any website. Maintaining proper media setting and size is very important for any website. Media along with text adds extra value to your content. But if you do not maintain media properly, it ruins your website.<\/p>\n<p>From the SEO perspective, optimizing images is one of the best practices. Because of large-sized image slows down the website and ultimately degrades the website performance. One important fact to understand is a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visme.co\/high-resolution-images\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">high-quality image<\/a><\/strong> is not necessarily be of large size. We can maintain high resolution with the optimum size as well. So,<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/how-to-optimize-images-for-wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> optimize images<\/a><\/strong> before uploading them to the website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tips<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Try to keep the image size below 200 KB<\/li>\n<li>Do not forget to rename each and every image with proper keyword<\/li>\n<li>Also, add title, description and also caption while uploading<\/li>\n<li>You can use image compression websites like tinypng.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"3_Manage_Plugins\"><\/span>3) Manage Plugins<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>As well know, WordPress is a plugin rich platform. There are thousands of plugin developers who developed various plugins for different purposes.\u00a0 But installing random and unnecessary plugins adds extra burden to the website. Broken and unauthorized plugins degrade the speed of the website and ultimately it creates a negative impact on ranking. So, use only needed and trusted plugin on your WordPress website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tips<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Carefully look rating and last update date of the plugin<\/li>\n<li>Do not forget to check the compatibility<\/li>\n<li>Install only essential plugins and delete rest of the plugins<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"4_Install_Cache_Plugin\"><\/span>4) Install Cache Plugin<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Installing a cache plugin is another important SEO setting for the WordPress website.\u00a0A cache plugin generates static HTML pages of your website and saves it on your server. Each time a user tries to access your website, your caching plugin serves up the lighter HTML page instead of processing the heavy WordPress PHP scripts. This allows the caching plugin to tremendously improve your page loading time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tips<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Top 3 cache plugins are WP Rocket, WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache<\/li>\n<li>Follow full documentation of the cache setup<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"5_Choose_Proper_Theme\"><\/span>5) Choose Proper Theme<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>While choosing a WordPress theme, you should take care of two things, speed and responsiveness. There are thousands of WordPress themes available but the one with high speed, well-coded responsive theme is what we need to install. Fast loading and responsive theme are best for both search engines and users.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tips<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Choose a theme that is not only appealing visually but also fast and responsive<\/li>\n<li>Keep checking Google Search Console if anything is wrong with the theme code and get the support from developers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"6_Create_a_Sitemapxml_and_Robotstxt\"><\/span>6) Create a Sitemap.xml and Robots.txt<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Sitemap.xml file makes it easy for Bing, Google, Yahoo, and other search engines to crawl your website. This is a file through which search engines find different pages and posts of your website. A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a site. If you have installed SEO plugins like <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wordpress-seo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yoast SEO<\/a><\/strong> then it automatically generated an XML file for your website. Otherwise, you have to install a <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/google-sitemap-generator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Google XML sitemap<\/strong><\/a> plugin.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, robots.txt is also called the robots exclusion protocol, which is a standard used by websites to communicate with web crawlers and other web robots. It defines which areas of a website crawlers are allowed to search and also defines certain areas not to crawl.<\/p>\n<p>These two files are very important files for any website. You can check these files of Acme Themes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/sitemap_index.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sitemap.xml<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/robots.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robots.txt<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"7_Use_Right_SEO_Plugin\"><\/span>7) Use Right SEO Plugin<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>We recommend using the right SEO plugin in <strong>WordPress SEO Tips for Beginner Tips<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The right SEO plugin makes easy for the WordPress website to maintain most of the SEO guidelines. Two of the most popular SEO plugins are Yoast SEO and <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/all-in-one-seo-pack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">All in One SEO Pack<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These plugins guides you to insert the proper amount of characters in title tag, body, and meta descriptions. Also, there are lots of essential settings required for <strong>Seach Engine Optimization<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"8_Setup_Google_Analytics_and_Google_Search_Console\"><\/span>8) Setup Google Analytics and Google Search Console<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>For a new website, setting up <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/analytics.google.com\/analytics\/web\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Analytics<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/search.google.com\/search-console\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Search Console<\/a><\/strong> is the first step task. Google Analytics provides in-depth knowledge of visitors, source of traffic, the platform that visitors using, geography for visitors, session and other valuable insights that can help you to build the success strategy for your business.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Google Search Console (GSC) helps you to monitor, maintain and troubleshoot the website&#8217;s visibility in <strong>Google Search Result Pages<\/strong>. If you have a particular issue with a website then you can identify through Google Search Console.<\/p>\n<p>So, you must set up Google Analytics for traffic analysis and Google Search Console for fixing the website issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tips<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Setup both www and non-www version of the website in Google Analytics and Google Search Console<\/li>\n<li>Actively monitor and track the GA and GSC to keep your website healthy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"9_Use_CDN\"><\/span>9) Use CDN<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>CDN stands for <strong>Content Delivery Network<\/strong> and as the name suggests, it is the delivery of the content based on the geographical location. The core concept of CDN is serving content from the nearest possible physical location in order to increase the speed of the website.<\/p>\n<p>The CDN server closest to a user is known as the \u201cedge server\u201d. When a user requests content from a website served through a CDN, they\u2019re connected to the closest edge server, ensuring the best online experience possible.<\/p>\n<p>Read &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/off-page-seo-techniques\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>10 Common Off-Page SEO Techniques<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"10_Maintain_Proper_Internal_Link\"><\/span>10) Maintain Proper Internal Link<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>In the list of WordPress SEO Tips for a Beginner, we have <strong>Internal Linking<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Internal linking is the process of linking one content to another according to the context in the same website. Internal linking is one of the important factors for SEO perspective as well as the user&#8217;s perspective. Internal linking helps in navigating the different contextual pages within the website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tips<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Link to only relevant pages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"11_Keep_Checking_Broken_Links\"><\/span>11) Keep Checking Broken Links<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Having broken links on the website is a bad experience for users and so does for search engines. So, time and again you have to keep checking if there exist any broken or dead links on the website. A broken link can be fixed manually by analyzing the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/broken-link-checker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Broken Link Checker plugin<\/strong><\/a> or using the different broken link checker tools.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"12_Make_Your_Content_Shareable\"><\/span>12) Make Your Content Shareable<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Writing helpful and quality content is a key thing but also making it easily sharable is equally important. It is because once the audiences find it very helpful, they can share with their social media profiles and groups. So, is your content is easily sharable then that multiplies your visitors. More share means more reach, more reach ultimately improves in better ranking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tips<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have the easy to share social media plugins<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"13_Write_Quality_and_Detailed_Content\"><\/span>13) Write Quality and Detailed Content<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Coming up in our last point of WordPress SEO tips for a beginner, we have quality content. You have to develop quality content Because content is king in SEO.<\/p>\n<p>According to the study, thoroughly written content tends to rank higher in the search engines. So, you should write long and detailed content to improve ranking.<\/p>\n<p>The character limit of the post or pages are as follows-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For Title \u2013\u00a0<strong>Max 75 Character<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>For Meta Description \u2013\u00a0<strong>Max 155 Character<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Body content should be 1000+ Words for better SEO perspective<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Do you think the content is helpful? Pin it<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5262 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SEO-tips-for-WordPress-Website.jpg\" alt=\"SEO tips for WordPress Website\" width=\"443\" height=\"664\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Final_Words\"><\/span>Final Words<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Above mentioned SEO tips for WordPress websites are very basic but significant for maintaining proper SEO.\u00a0 These are the tips and tricks to better rank in the search engines after setting up a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/wordpress-settings-for-new-website\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">brand new WordPress website.<\/a> <\/strong>These are things to consider or improve before performing any SEO action.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other Posts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/types-of-website-traffic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Types of Website Traffic\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/free-magazine-wordpress-themes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20+ Best Magazine WordPress Themes\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmethemes.com\/blog\/wordpress-settings-for-new-website\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Essential Basic Setup for Brand New WordPress Website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of 2019, 34% of the total website is built on the WordPress platform. 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