Wordpress SEO Checklist

Why is SEO important for WordPress?

If your website runs on WordPress, you’re FAR from alone. WordPress runs about one third of all websites on the internet in some form or another.

The WordPress CMS has become increasingly popular for good reason – it’s full of tools and options to make any kind of website you want, but it’s simple enough for beginners to pick it up. Even if you know how to use WordPress to write a blog post or design a website, it’s common to have some questions about doing SEO with WordPress:

• What theme should I choose?
• How will WordPress structure my URLs?
• What plugins will help me with SEO?

Fortunately, WordPress is very SEO friendly and has some specific features that make your SEO work 10x easier. To make sure you’re taking advantage of every SEO feature WordPress has to offer, you can download our free WordPress SEO checklist right here.

What’s in this checklist?

In SEO, the little things add up, and you want to make sure you are doing everything you can to give your website an edge. Our checklist is a complete walkthrough that shows you how to use all of these, including:

• Changing your WordPress settings to make sure you’re creating the most SEO friendly URL’s
• Setting up a great homepage
• Installing a powerful SEO plugin that will make your life ten times easier

How should you use this checklist?

Our WordPress SEO checklist is ideal for anybody who is just creating a new WordPress site, but it is definitely worth going through for anybody who already has an established site and wants to improve their SEO going forward. Just follow these quick steps:

1. Log in to your website  and pull up this checklist
2. Walk through the different areas of SEO with the checklist.
3. Boom! Your WordPress site is now SEO friendly