You’ve created your wordpress blog and have posted high-quality content for months now, but you can’t reach the first page of Google. Here is a list of 10 quick tips on how to improve the search engine ranking of your site.
1. Create and update a profile on Google Plus every day. This social network is a bit in decline. But it is still the google site. It will help you to make better your web presence!
2. Do not buy backlinks! They are of low-quality in 99% of cases and have the opposite effect, or penalize your website from search engines.
3. Try to build a backlink network with a good level of quality. Do it in the most natural and “legal” way possible: guest posting on blogs covering topics similar to yours is the best solution.
4. Build a network of internal links: it will increase both your SEO value and the average visit duration on your website/blog. This means better rankings.
5. Learn to use the free plugin SEO Yoast or All in one SEO: it will help you with pages/articles placement assuring a faultless WordPress SEO, therefore it is essential for all the bloggers.
6. Speed up your blog. The use of lightweight pictures and plugins you really need is a good starting point. Slow loading pages can actually get your wordpress blog penalized by Google.
7. Be mobile-friendly. Make sure your site is mobile suitable. You can verify that by the options menu which is on your page Google webmasters tools. Now all the blogs and websites must be mobile friendly!!
8. Work on long tail keywords rather than on a single keyword. Google Keyword Planner tool can be of great help in this specific work.
9. Use Google Trends to create fresh content on your posts all the time. Current trends generate a lot of traffic on the web, so they could bring to your website a large amount of traffic.
10. Give value to your articles: if you can link to authoritative sites… do it! It will help both your article (it will validate your content making it more credible) and your WordPress SEO, since Google takes into account other factors such as reliability too. Google like valuable content.
Don’t beat yourself up if you don’t see results in the short-term! Search engine positioning is a mid-to long-term process. Keep trying everyday and soon you will see the difference.