OnThe Perfect SEO Setup for WordPress: 8 Plugins to Skyrocket Your Rankings and Increase Traffic

 

Some of the most important factors that Google looks into in order to rank your site are the following, user experience, on-page SEO, site speed, mobile-friendliness, and internal there are hundreds of other variables that influence your ranking, including link structure and structured markups. Google’s algorithm takes into account over 200 variables.

 

W3 Total Cache.

w3 total cache

Look, load time is quite crucial, especially now that so many people use mobile devices. Yes, there’s 4G, 5G, LTE, whatever you want to call it, but the problem with mobile devices is that if you’re in an area that doesn’t have it, you’re stuck. The most favorable reaction I don’t care if you have a 5G phone; you won’t be able to load webpages quickly. The W3 Total Cache plugin makes sure that your site loads as quickly as possible. It’ll improve load times, it’ll help you connect with CDNs, and it makes better use of your server resources so that way your server doesn’t have to continue to push the same content over and over again. Instead, it caches everything to give it to the user as quickly as possible, and if you have a reputable hosting provider, caching is already built-in, but most of the hosting providers that I’ve seen don’t have to cache built-in, hence I’m wrecking, recommending the W3 Total Cache plugin.

 

Smush Image Compression

Smush Image Compression

If you’re writing blog material, and hey, you’re on a WordPress blog or using WordPress as a CMS, there’s a high chance you have at least one blog piece, and what do you think you’re included in that blog article? If you aren’t using images, you should start doing so right now. What the Smush Image Compression plugin does is ensure that your images still look good and quality, so that when someone looks at them, they don’t look all pixelated and fuzzy, but it also reduces the size of the image, which is important because I’m talking about the server size, right, that hard drive size. It’s using up less space now, so when visitors ping your site, it loads considerably faster.

 

Yoast SEO

Yoast SEO

It takes care of everything, including on-page SEO, Meta tag management, and title tag management. It even evaluates your material and tells you whether or not you’re doing a good job. It helps you with structure and markup by creating sitemaps for you. It accomplishes the most of what you need to ensure that your WordPress blog is SEO-friendly. Now, while WordPress is SEO-friendly out of the box, this plugin adds the finishing touches that are so important. But SEO has changed. Now Google wants you to do everything right, and when you combine them, you’ll see your rankings go up, the extra search traffic, and this plugin will really help you get there.

 

Sucuri

Sucuri

If your website is hacked, your rankings and traffic will plummet, and it will be difficult to recover. Sucuri assists you and protects you from being hacked. It won’t be perfect, but it’s better than nothing. The last thing you want is for your website to be hacked and all of your visitors to go. I’ve seen this previously: someone gets hacked, they figure it out after a week or two, their rankings plummet, they fix it, and then they don’t recover in 30 days. Eventually, they recover, sometimes it takes two months, sometimes three months, and if they’re lucky it happens quickly. They said, “Hey, my business sucks.” I lost a lot of money on this stupid thing. “Don’t get hacked.

 

AMP for WordPress.

AMP for WordPress.

This helps with mobile users. You want to get in on Google News if you want to rank exceptionally high, so make sure your site is using the AMP framework. In other words, your tech space articles load very quickly since Google simply uploads it on their end, utilizing their own framework, and I discovered it, yes, in the Yes, using the AMP framework didn’t earn me much more mobile traffic in the United States, but in other countries where mobile devices and infrastructure aren’t as excellent, such as Brazil, I observed a large spike in mobile traffic simply by using this plugin.

 

A3 Lazy Load.

A3 Lazy Load

Even if you compress photos, it takes time for a webpage to load when you utilize them on your site. You want to make it such that the photos load as visitors scroll down the page, so it doesn’t take forever to load all of them for that webpage to load when people haven’t even started reading the content and scrolling.

 

Schema Rich Snippets

Schema Rich Snippets

If you want to improve your search visibility by sharing rich snippets between the page titles, you gotta use this plugin. It’s great, it’s simple to use, and it is one of the best things that I’ve done out there. Now, with schema markup what you’ll find is some people are like, “Yeah, we’re gonna use “all this schema markup and use all these tags “even though our site isn’t relevant “to the specific schema markups.”You don’t want to do that.

For example, I wouldn’t be using stuff on behamer.com, a schema markup that’s relevant for restaurants when I have nothing related to restaurants on my site. That’ll irritate Google and it’ll hurt you in the long run, so when you’re using this be nice and kind. Don’t try to abuse schema markup.

Really Simple SSL.

Really Simple SSL.

90% of websites that rank at the top have SSL installed. It’s pretty much become a prerequisite if you want to rank well, so use the SSL. Well, it doesn’t have to go through this plugin. Maybe your host provides it, maybe your domain provider provides it, whatever it may be you want a secure site, and what you’ll find is some browsers even notify Users to say, “Hey, this site isn’t safe,” which can cause people to fight back and stay away from your site, which may lower your rankings over time. You want to make sure you have SSL, it’s that important.

 

So, if you use these eight plugins, you will find that your ranking will increase over time, especially if you are not using any of them, but if you start combining all of them it does help quite a bit.