{"id":574,"date":"2016-01-25T14:22:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T14:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hostinguk.net\/blog\/?p=574"},"modified":"2016-02-26T14:43:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T14:43:46","slug":"best-wordpress-plugin-for-seo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hostinguk.net\/blog\/best-wordpress-plugin-for-seo\/","title":{"rendered":"Best WordPress Plugin for SEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress is used by a huge number of HostingUK customers to run their website on \u2013 which isn\u2019t surprising since users can quickly &amp; easily set up a professional looking website themselves, which is easy to use &amp; 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.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u2013 under various keywords\/keyphrases.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s use of plugins there are a range of SEO plugins to help with your WordPress site\u2019s SEO. One of the most popular is the <strong>WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin<\/strong> \u2013 and it\u2019s the one we at HostingUK\u00a0recommend you use for your WordPress site. If you have a WordPress website then using it will help increase your site visitors.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/co5TjUwqWIQ?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>WordPress SEO by Yoast is a free plugin, that has been downloaded over 14 million times \u2013 so it is thoroughly tested &amp; 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:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Easily optimize your WordPress site with one plugin<\/strong><br \/>\nWordPress SEO by Yoast is the most complete SEO plugin available for WordPress. It provides everything required to optimise your site.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Content analysis functionality<\/strong><br \/>\nIt teaches you how to write better content with its built-in content analysis tool, enabling you to easily optimise your site\u2019s titles and descriptions for Google.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Plus much more features &amp; tools to quickly optimise your site\u2019s SEO<\/strong><br \/>\nIt can automatically generate XML Sitemaps, speedily sort permalinks, and remove unwanted bloating from your website\u2019s code.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To find out more about the plugin &#8211; or to download it, visit the WordPress Plugin Directory: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wordpress-seo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yoast SEO\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WordPress is a great tool to help you quickly &amp; easily set up a fantastic website yourself &#8211; one that you can design and update.\u00a0All of our web hosting packages can be used with WordPress &#8211; visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/hostinguk.net\/web-hosting\" target=\"_blank\">web hosting<\/a> page or give us a call on 01745 586 070 to find out more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress is used by a huge number of HostingUK customers to run their website on \u2013 which isn\u2019t surprising since users can quickly &amp; easily set up a professional looking website themselves, which is easy to use &amp; update and thanks to the thousands of plugins available for it, your WordPress website can have a&#8230; <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/hostinguk.net\/blog\/best-wordpress-plugin-for-seo\/\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wordpress"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Best Wordpress Plugin for SEO<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Best Wordpress Plugin for SEO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WordPress is used by a huge number of HostingUK customers to run their website on \u2013 which isn\u2019t surprising since users can quickly &amp; easily set up a professional looking website themselves, which is easy to use &amp; update and thanks to the thousands of plugins available for it, your WordPress website can have a... 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