WordPress is used by a huge number of HostingUK customers to run their website on – which isn’t surprising since users can quickly & easily set up a professional looking website themselves, which is easy to use & update and thanks to the thousands of plugins available for it, your WordPress website can have a massive number of features and tools to work with.

There are various factors that come into play in order to develop a successful website, such as having a professional looking design, fast web hosting, relevant content, taking part in social media marketing, etc. One of the most important factors though is Search Engine Optimisation (SEO): having a website that search engines such as Google like, and therefore rank highly on their search results pages – under various keywords/keyphrases.

If you want to increase the number of visitors to your website then it needs to be optimised for search engines as best as possible. Fortunately, thanks to WordPress’s use of plugins there are a range of SEO plugins to help with your WordPress site’s SEO. One of the most popular is the WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin – and it’s the one we at HostingUK recommend you use for your WordPress site. If you have a WordPress website then using it will help increase your site visitors.

WordPress SEO by Yoast is a free plugin, that has been downloaded over 14 million times – so it is thoroughly tested & reviewed. For example, it can help you optimize your page content, images titles, meta descriptions, XML sitemaps and much more. It can help your WordPress website by:

• Easily optimize your WordPress site with one plugin
  WordPress SEO by Yoast is the most complete SEO plugin available for WordPress. It provides everything required to optimise your site.
• Content analysis functionality
  It teaches you how to write better content with its built-in content analysis tool, enabling you to easily optimise your site’s titles and descriptions for Google.
• Plus much more features & tools to quickly optimise your site’s SEO
  It can automatically generate XML Sitemaps, speedily sort permalinks, and remove unwanted bloating from your website’s code.

To find out more about the plugin – or to download it, visit the WordPress Plugin Directory: Yoast SEO 

WordPress is a great tool to help you quickly & easily set up a fantastic website yourself – one that you can design and update. All of our web hosting packages can be used with WordPress – visit our web hosting page or give us a call on 01745 586 070 to find out more.