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WordPress SEO Tip for Beginners – How to Optimize Your WordPress Blog Posts

Last updated on January 31st, 2013 by Editorial Staff
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WordPress SEO Tip for Beginners – How to Optimize Your WordPress Blog Posts

Often we notice that beginners install and activate the SEO plugins, but they never use it properly. We asked some of our users about it, and their response was “I didn’t know that I was suppose to be doing this”. Yes, we are talking about SEO meta data such as title and meta description. By using SEO functions properly for each post, you can definitely improve your search rankings. There is a lot you can do to optimize your blog posts, so they can perform better in search results. In this WordPress SEO tip for beginners, we will show you how to properly use SEO functions in WordPress posts.

At WPBeginner, we use WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast to optimize our blog posts. Therefore, all screenshots will reflect that.

WordPress SEO snippet preview

Choosing a Focus Keyword

A focus keyword is the main keyword that you are hoping people will look for and find your post. If your blog is in a competitive niche then chances are that you will be competing with many other established and reputable publications for popular keywords. In such situation, you can get more organic traffic by using long tail keywords. Always remember that your audience is humans not search engines. People don’t just type one keyword in search engines, they use phrases. Your focus keyword can be a phrase.

WordPress SEO by Yoast allows you to choose a focus keyword for your individual posts. It also helps you find similar keywords as you type your focus keyword.

WordPress SEO Keyword Suggestions for Focus Keyword

Once you have chosen a focus keyword for your post, WordPress SEO will show you how many times you have used the keyword in different areas of your post.

Focus Keyword Count in WordPress SEO plugin

Writing a Good SEO-Friendly Post Title

Post SEO Title

A good SEO friendly post title is human readable, contains your focus keyword and is within the 70 characters limit. However, it also needs to be catchy. When your page appears in the search results, a user will decide whether or not they want to click on it based on the SEO title and the description in the search snippet. The description part may change as search engines display the most relevant part of your article as the description. But the title will remain the same. Make sure your SEO title describes exactly what people will get if they clicked on the link. And finally, simplify your title, rather than using “A Comparison between Categories and Tags From SEO point of view” or “My thoughts on Categories and Tags” try something like “Categories vs. Tags – SEO Best Practices for Sorting your Content”. This title is not only catchy, it also contains the right keywords that people would be searching for.

Post SEO Meta Description

Some SEO experts believe that Meta description tag on a page has become irrelevant. However, many others would disagree. At WPBeginner, we recommend using meta description for all of your posts. A good meta description can explain a lot more about an article. Meta Description is also shown in social media sites like Facebook, Google+, and in Twitter via Twitter Cards.

Since now you know that people are going to be reading your meta descriptions, you want to make sure that it is helpful. You also want to make sure that you at least mention your focus keyword in the meta description for search purposes. The character limit for Meta Description is 155 characters. Try to stay within that limit or your meta description will be truncated after 155 characters. Try to use your focus keyword earlier in the meta description rather than later.

Categories and Tags

Sorting Your Content

Categories and tags help you sort your content not only for your reader, but for yourself as well as search engines. Earlier we have written a detailed guide on how to use Categories and Tags in WordPress. Think of your website as a book. Categories are the table of content, and tags are the index part of the book.

Make Internal Linking a Habit

Once you have blogged for a while, you will have enough content that you would want people to read. With internal linking you can send new readers to check out your older relevant posts. Internal linking is a great way to develop context between your new and old posts thus passing relevant link juice. WordPress allows you to search for your old posts right inside the post editor. Press the link button in your post editor and click on “Or link to existing content”. This will open a search box. Search for older posts that you want to link to and it will show the results as you type. Select the post you want to link and press Add link button.

WordPress Internal Link Search

Each post you publish on your website has the potential to increase your search engine traffic. By adding meta data to your posts, writing good headlines, and cross linking between your older articles, you will soon start noticing an increase in your search traffic. We hope that you found this WordPress SEO tip for beginners helpful. Let us know, what you are doing to optimize your WordPress blog posts?

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  1. Valery says:
    Dec 20, 2018 at 6:24 pm

    Do you have a suggestion on this scenario… if we have a ’round-up post’ we do each week showing the posts for the week… and then delete those posts after 4 weeks, is it better to post a brand new post each week and delete them like we have been OR reschedule the same post each week with a new post date and forward the old post to the new one?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Dec 21, 2018 at 6:37 am

      Hi Valery,

      We are not sure about the format of content you post. However, deleting a post creates a 404 error and you need to set up a redirect for it. Assuming you do that every week, this is not a very good system. Perhaps, you can send the round up to your readers as a weekly email?

      Reply
  2. Jenne says:
    May 22, 2018 at 2:24 pm

    New to this whole thing, and having major problems with developing good focus keywords. For example, I have a post about stress in cats in the spring. So I choose “stress in cats” as focus keyword. I use these words multiple times throughout my article. But I can’t always make it work to write exactly “stress in cats”…I might say something like stressed cats, cats that are stressed etc. so youst downgrades my posts based on that…but I AM using the keywords all throughout the article. Any advice on these kinds of problems?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      May 23, 2018 at 12:52 pm

      Hi Jenne,

      The content analysis tools in Yoast SEO are there just to provide general guidelines. You should use your best judgement and use keyword variants as they come naturally while writing.

      Reply
  3. Okhun says:
    Apr 17, 2018 at 12:30 pm

    Thanks for article, I am doing as you said but the traffic is not increasing. I do not know how to approach to this in the future.

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Apr 17, 2018 at 8:39 pm

      Hi Okhun,

      It will take some time. You need to keep adding high quality content to your website.

      Reply
  4. RAJEEV KUMAR says:
    Apr 16, 2018 at 5:24 pm

    Sir, thanks for this article. please tell me you that how to rank any particular keyword.

    Reply
  5. Sunday Adeniran says:
    Dec 25, 2017 at 9:56 am

    The last few days I have been following your helpful posts on SEO. I thought I could do it on my own by using your posts. I have done a lot then.
    Can you list all what I have to do after the first post in self-hosted wordpress?
    Many thanks.

    Reply
  6. Gunanidhi Gunda says:
    Dec 13, 2017 at 5:38 pm

    Hey Syed,

    Thanks!
    Glad to know all the SEO operations.

    Reply
  7. Syed Talha says:
    Dec 8, 2017 at 7:42 am

    Nice article would love to see more on the SEO topic.

    Reply
  8. Efe Michael Obasuyi says:
    Oct 30, 2017 at 3:34 pm

    What a wonderful post, thanks for teaching us SEO.. I use Yoast Premium on my site and my post doesn’t rank well on google.. any ideas?

    Reply
    • Saif U Rehman says:
      Nov 30, 2017 at 1:11 pm

      Seo is the stand on more than 200 ranking factors, You need to more work for #1 ranking like On-Page SEO, OFF-Page SEO, Link building, Guest posting and some important steps for ranking! Keep learning more and more! Keep it Up like Syed balkhi .

      Reply
  9. Brandi says:
    Jun 19, 2017 at 11:54 am

    When I go to “All Posts” on my Dashboard should I be adding in tags, SEO title, SEO description, and SEO keywords there? If so, is there a guide of what specifically to add to those places?

    Reply
  10. cyril says:
    May 11, 2017 at 2:14 pm

    Great article. This has really helped me to understand how to set up my seo on my blog…..Thnks to wordpress and everyone that comments on this thread

    Reply
  11. ajay awasthi says:
    May 7, 2017 at 3:10 pm

    Sir can you please tell me that what are the reason behind sudden drop down in all keywords of my job alert website. The traffic suddenly reduced to 500 from 5000 in a single day. what should i do sir???

    Reply
    • Saif U Rehman says:
      Nov 30, 2017 at 1:25 pm

      I think your site has spammy links. Check your Webmaster tools by following. Click on property> Search Treffic>Links to your Site
      Now you need to check all these sites spam score one by one with MOZ Site Explorer
      I hope it will work for you to get back your audience

      Reply
  12. Ankit says:
    Apr 30, 2017 at 10:24 pm

    Hi Syed,

    After reading your blogging tips. Now i have to do lot of changes on my blog. i have been blogging from last six month but haven’t got good results.
    Can you please tell me When I write article, I always link my old post to the article. For example, if I am writing about how to save money so I insert the related link to the money of my older post. Can you tell me is it OK to doing that?
    Does it make sense?

    Thanks

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      May 2, 2017 at 9:51 am

      Hey Ankit,

      Yes, it is a very good practice from SEO point of view. Link to your older articles whenever you think it is with in the context.

      Reply
  13. Umang says:
    Apr 28, 2017 at 12:50 am

    Hey, I was confused about how much Internal links we can add in our current post? Is there any limit for this?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Apr 30, 2017 at 4:36 pm

      Hey Umang,

      You can link as often as you like as long as it comes naturally in the context of your article.

      Reply
  14. Ashley says:
    Apr 26, 2017 at 11:04 pm

    Thank you for the great tips! I am super clueless when it comes to techy stuff and I hope I don’t sound too stupid for asking these questions:

    1) Are all of these only available AFTER google has indexed my site?
    2) I have installed YOAST SEO but I can’t seem to find the place that I could type the key words.
    3) The colour of the SEO button under all of my posts are grey and I have no idea how to change them.
    4) I only have the free version of Yoast SEO. Does that changes anything?

    I know I am probably an idiot for not knowing all of these super basic stuff, but your help is much appreciated!

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Apr 27, 2017 at 10:24 pm

      Hi Ashley,

      Please our guide on how to install and setup Yoast SEO for detailed step by step instructions.

      Reply
  15. Mike Agha says:
    Apr 22, 2017 at 9:01 am

    Amazing post, we read it as a team and like it but one thing came in mind that if we stuff keywords more than 50 times, is it will be spamming.?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Apr 22, 2017 at 6:46 pm

      Hey Mike,

      Stuffing keywords (using them unnecessarily) is ofcourse considered spamming and it would also make your articles look funny to your actual human users. Your goal should be to use keywords naturally in the context of your article.

      Reply
  16. Robert says:
    Apr 17, 2017 at 9:38 am

    I’ve subscribed to another forum on how to create a blog that makes money, but you have some really useful ideas as well. Looking forward to implement them.

    Reply
  17. Abhishek Kolekar says:
    Mar 9, 2017 at 11:46 am

    how to write focus keywords for post like top ten smartphones under 10,000 rupees and use it in the entire article to maintain keyword density in yoast seo?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Mar 9, 2017 at 9:10 pm

      Hi Abhishek,

      Think about the keyword/phrase that users are most likely to type in search if they were looking for the information you are offering in your article.

      Reply
      • Abhishek Kolekar says:
        Mar 10, 2017 at 12:26 am

        i have the keywords/phrase which i’ll be using in Yoast Seo plugin but how to use it in the entire article so as to maintain keyword density..we have to use that keyword 6-7 times in the entire article so as to maintain the keyword density…

        Reply
  18. Michael says:
    Jan 17, 2017 at 3:16 pm

    I really enjoyed your article and found it to be very useful. I have the All In One SEO Pack installed and I have been trying to install the Yoast SEO without luck. After searching for the plugin and selecting Install Now after a few seconds I get the message Install Failed. I have the newest version of WP which is 4.7.1. any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Jan 17, 2017 at 3:42 pm

      Hi Michael,

      You can try manual installation method. See see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin and scroll down to “Install a plugin using the WordPress admin plugin upload” section.

      Reply
  19. alta says:
    Oct 27, 2016 at 6:04 am

    your post is very helpful .thank you for sharing this with all…

    Reply
  20. Themba Mkandla says:
    Oct 14, 2016 at 5:49 pm

    I shudder to think what I could have done without your training materials. I have a new blog that I recently moved from wordpress.com to wordpress.org. I didn’t understand a thing what the difference was in the first place. I got a rude awakening of this when I subscribed to SBI! for WP and I could not install the plugin in the free hosted blog. Your easy to follow instructions on moving the blog to a self hosted site helped me a lot. To cut a long story short, I have a couple of articles that I have written and optimised using Yoast SEO (as per your recommendation). I am learning a lot and it’s exciting to say the least.
    Thanks again.

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Oct 16, 2016 at 4:26 pm

      Hey Themba,

      Thanks for the kind words. We are happy to hear that you found WPBeginner helpful. Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook for more WordPress tips and tutorials.

      Reply
  21. Abhishek says:
    Oct 10, 2016 at 12:39 am

    Really Good work! Keep it up :)

    Reply
  22. Ron Ashworth says:
    Aug 13, 2016 at 4:50 am

    Beautiful and informative, thanks.

    Reply
  23. Sheila says:
    Aug 9, 2016 at 11:55 pm

    Helpful article. I’m a beginner in wordpress and blogging in general. I have a recent problem with links in my latest post. It’s not clickable anymore, while links in my previous posts are okay. What could be the problem? This happened after my site went off for a few days. Thanks for any help

    Reply
  24. Stephen says:
    Aug 4, 2016 at 12:51 pm

    You’re a top guy! You’ve been the perfect companion as I’ve joined blogosphere for the first time. Thank you.

    Reply
  25. Etim Uso says:
    Jun 18, 2016 at 3:21 am

    Thanks. Very useful. I wish I had read some of these stuffs earlier. However, it is not too late.

    Reply
  26. ramesh says:
    Jun 10, 2016 at 2:41 am

    Hi Syed,

    Its great article.Thanks and Cheers.

    Best,
    Ramesh

    Reply
  27. Nick says:
    May 19, 2016 at 1:45 pm

    Do you recommend using the same focus keyword for multiple posts/pages?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      May 19, 2016 at 9:00 pm

      No, try to use a different variant if possible.

      Reply
  28. Blanche Russell says:
    May 18, 2016 at 11:51 pm

    Thank you, Syed. For the first time since I started blogging, I feel hopeful. Even though I am a total non-techie, I find the way you break things down quite encouraging.

    Reply
  29. Barbara says:
    May 2, 2016 at 5:50 pm

    I don’t use posts. I use pages. Is it possible to tag pages?

    Thanks.

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      May 3, 2016 at 5:13 pm

      See our guide how to add categories and tags for WordPress pages.

      Reply
  30. Shakir Hassan says:
    Apr 24, 2016 at 2:53 am

    How to focus on multiple keyword at certain blog post?

    Reply
  31. Rommie Carnevale says:
    Mar 29, 2016 at 11:21 pm

    Thanks for the great article. I’m always looking for quality tips for clients and this post is a good referral option for those who are new to SEO. Not too broad!

    Reply
  32. Deepika Lakhina says:
    Feb 10, 2016 at 11:50 pm

    Thanks for the informative article on SEO functions in WordPress Posts.

    Reply
  33. RoidPlay says:
    Jan 9, 2016 at 2:24 am

    Heay Syed,
    I am going to start my new blog on wordpress, most of users using plugins for their sites to focus the main keywords. Is really important to use plugins for site to check keyword? How many time we need to use our focus keywords in the post? Most of site are in top ranking, but when i search their focus keywords in main post i have not found any long tail words in the post. Is there any google guidelines available, how many time we can use keywords in the post when we are writting a post with maximum 300 words.? Hope your reply will help me to publish my first post in wordpress site.
    Regards

    Reply
  34. Wesley says:
    Dec 26, 2015 at 9:24 am

    Hi,

    Let’s say my focus keyword is “winner info”.

    Can I use that focus keyword in 2 posts or more?

    Reply
  35. Yeshu Anand says:
    Oct 6, 2015 at 6:44 am

    Hello, Can I add two or more keywords in Focus Keyword place? If yes, then how?

    Reply
  36. Dari says:
    Sep 17, 2015 at 1:00 pm

    I find your posts about SEO and keyword search extremely helpful, and I am glad to know that I have been using it correctly the entire time, however, my site has been live since March, and I am still not getting Google traffic. A friend of mine, who has a site of her own, told me that something must be wrong. My SEO is always green, so I know that I am at least filling out the fields correctly, but I wonder if perhaps my keywords are poorly chosen, or if there are other factors that could be throwing Google off. Do you have other recommended posts that you have written that could shed some light on why Google would be ignoring my site, even though I have Google Webmaster Tools set up (with no issues), and SEO Yoast set up correctly?

    Reply
    • Saif U Rehman says:
      Nov 30, 2017 at 1:34 pm

      You need to read more about Search engine ranking factors the major factors is on-page SEO, off-page SEO, link building( backlinks) competitor analysis,

      Reply
  37. Yoann says:
    Mar 3, 2015 at 5:33 am

    Very interesting post; I was one of the peoples who didn’t bother to fill the fill the entire SEO section but, now, I figure out that everything is important and nothing has to be left in random.

    As a beginner I will learn at my pace and step by step.

    Anyway, thank you for you tips and advices you provided to me .

    Reply
  38. WPBeginner Staff says:
    Nov 5, 2014 at 8:07 pm

    On the post editor screen, click on the Screen Options button at the top right corner of the screen. A fly down menu will appear. Under Show on Screen section make sure that the checkbox next to All in One SEO plugin is checked.

    Reply
  39. Charles D says:
    Nov 5, 2014 at 3:43 pm

    My All In One SEO pack works for my pages; but not for my Posts. There is no option to fill in the information on the backend when making a post, while it works fine for the pages. Has anyone else ever experienced this? Is there a setting I need to change/update? Thanks!

    Reply
  40. WPBeginner Staff says:
    Oct 31, 2014 at 11:39 pm

    The main purpose of the focus keyword in Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin is to help you analyze how optimized your post/page is for the focus keyword.

    Reply
    • Adam Dartez says:
      Nov 1, 2014 at 12:29 am

      Gottcha! That’s what I thought but I was creating a website and didn’t add the focus keyword on a few pages and wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing out on any of that SEO goodness, thanks for the reply!

      Reply
  41. Adam Dartez says:
    Oct 31, 2014 at 12:43 am

    I’m really sorry as this might sound like a dumb question but I can’t seem to find a definitive answer on this topic. My question is this, does the focus keyword matter inside the Yoast SEO plugin matter for SEO purposes or just internally for the purpose of analyzing whether your post is optimized for a certain keyword? I’ve checked the page source for pages that I do set the focus keyword and pages where I don’t set the focus keyword and my ‘focus keyword’ that I enter into the ‘focus keyword’ field of the plugin isn’t outputting in the page source. I know the ‘seo title’ and ‘meta description’ fields are important and what they do but does the ‘focus keyword’ field actually mean anything to Google or is it just for use in the plugin to tell you or not if you’re post or page is optimized?

    In other words does the ‘focus keyword’ field actually hold any weight with Google themselves or is it just used for the internal purpose of the plugin to analyze whether you’re post or page is optimized or not (i.e. so the green light comes on)? Sorry if this is a dumb question but I can’t seem to find a definitive answer :(

    Reply
  42. Ali Sajjad says:
    Jul 16, 2014 at 7:37 am

    Hello, Can i add two or more keywords with commas in Focus Keyword place?

    Reply
  43. Alessandra says:
    Jun 17, 2014 at 3:17 am

    Very interesting tips, I’ve finally understood the way SEO should be used

    Reply
  44. Manuel Echeverry says:
    Jun 4, 2014 at 6:24 pm

    great article, lo the internal linking tip!

    Reply
  45. Jodi says:
    Apr 2, 2014 at 8:32 pm

    Hi, I am using the All in One SEO plug-in. On each specific page I create I am given the option to list keywords in the admin area of that page. How many keywords or keyword phrases do you suggest listing for each page?

    Thanks!

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Apr 3, 2014 at 2:22 pm

      Keywords are totally optional. Most SEO experts do not recommend using them. However, we have found there is no harm in adding at least a few. Make sure keywords describe your article, make sure your main focus keyword is in the title and description as well.

      Reply
  46. Paresh says:
    Feb 1, 2014 at 2:27 pm

    Reading it in 2014 and still finding it useful, that’s what I call an ever green post :-)
    Bravo Sayed Balki

    Reply
  47. ahsan karim says:
    Jan 12, 2014 at 12:19 pm

    plz tell me on my mail too that how search engines decide that which are key words in an article,howto insert signatures in forums, and beginner tips for first 30 days regarding seo

    Reply
  48. charjan says:
    Jan 4, 2014 at 11:25 am

    i agree, on page seo is best for ranking high in Google & other search engine.Although one page seo is not that hard but it’s fairly complex when it comes to writing article.but you post certainly rectify this one issue.thanks for sharing.

    Reply
  49. cik amal says:
    Dec 9, 2013 at 2:06 pm

    =.=” i know about Internal Linking when i read this post… so sad

    Reply
  50. hafzaa says:
    Nov 19, 2013 at 4:28 pm

    Good article…very useful and helps alot…good work

    Reply
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