How to apply WordPress SEO quickly

If you have a website on WordPress and want to apply your SEO tactics on it, then it is necessary to know the features of WordPress that can help you. WordPress SEO is not different from SEO on other websites just need to know how to apply. So here are some tools and resource for your assistance.

First of all let's see some SEO elements:

Meta tags
Urls
Image alt text
XML sitemap
Page speed
Mobile friendly

These all can be done by plugins so in no time you can apply these. I will write here some free plugins which will apply WordPress SEO automatically. Let's check it out

Page title & Meta tags:

These are the information for search engine about your website/page. So these are the important part of WordPress SEO. You can see these tags in HTML source code of your website's page.To add and generate, use SEO for wordpress plugin.

Let's check it a bit deeply.

SEO for WordPress : After Installation, you will get an option under settings menu. Click on it to reach on its settings page. It does not have any configuration except to disable two things automatic meta description and meta keywords.

Now open page or post, you will get a section below text editor.

Here you will find that title and description are already present in provided boxes. As it takes title and meta description from post's title and content.

Great things of SEO for wordpress plugin are:
1) If you forget to enter SEO title and meta description it generate automatically from your post/page's content.
2) If you have your own title description then you can modify them from here.

Google doesn't use meta keywords so I think it is not important.

SEO Friendly urls:

It means, Urls that are readable by users. You can do it by Permalinks settings. The only additional work here is removing stop words. Da Stop Words Removal plugin is helpful for this purpose. It has a list of stop words in different languages also you can add/remove any word of your choice. See its setting page.

Also there will be a language dropdown on page/post section to apply these stop word. Select any language for removing words from that url while publishing.

WordPress SEO For Image :

I assume that you all know the importance of alt tag. Search engine index image with the help of its alt and title attribute. WordPress SEO For Image plugin will do it. This plugin add alt and title in your website's images automatically. To change format of these attributes, open plugin's page and make changes as you want.

Sitemap submission:

It inform search engines about urls of your website. Just click on Build sitemap button from its page. It will automatically create Xml Sitemap and ping the most popular search engines.

Page speed:

Load time affects search engines. From visitors point of view, they can't wait for a long time to get information on your site. Mainly unformatted js and css increase load time. Speed Booster Pack will provide many options for reducing load time.

With this plugin you don't need to do anything more, just open its page and mark the boxes and rest the plugin will do automatically.

Mobile friendly:

In today's times it is important that your website should also be mobile compatible. You can create your website responsive for all devices but it will good if you create a mobile version separately for WordPress SEO. WPtouch Mobile Plugin will add additional theme for mobile and redirect mobile's user on that theme. Just you need to install and it will take care of the rest.

Here I have given a few stuff for creating WordPress SEO friendly, only required to set-up these things. Although It is not the end, there are so many options for optimizing your site regularly. As SEO is a continuous learning process because of search engine changing strategy and development.