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How To Use Yoast SEO On WordPress Complete Tutorial

After we have made our perfect robots.txt, we should talk about the plugin, without which it is impossible to imagine the SEO optimization of a website created on WordPress for its successful promotion. Among other things, the SEO by Yoast plugin combines several useful plugins at once, such as XML-map and “Breadcrumbs”, the importance of which is also undoubtful. So let’s get started on how to set up WordPress SEO by Yoast yourself and as efficiently as possible.

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How To Use Yoast SEO On WordPress Complete Tutorial

After we have made our perfect robots.txt, we should talk about the plugin, without which it is impossible to imagine the SEO optimization of a website created on WordPress for its successful promotion. Among other things, the SEO by Yoast plugin combines several useful plugins at once, such as XML-map and “Breadcrumbs”, the importance of which is also undoubtful. So let’s get started on how to set up WordPress SEO by Yoast yourself and as efficiently as possible.

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How to Use Yoast SEO on WordPress

Complete Tutorial
After we have made our perfect robots.txt, we should talk about the plugin, without which it is impossible to imagine
the SEO optimization of a website created on WordPress for its successful promotion.

Among other things, the SEO by Yoast plugin combines several useful plugins at once, such as XML-map and
“Breadcrumbs”, the importance of which is also undoubtful. So let’s get started on how to set up WordPress SEO by
Yoast yourself and as efficiently as possible.

What is an SEO by Yoast WordPress Plugin?


First, let’s figure out what can be done with this plugin:

 Fill in meta tags for the home page.


 Fill in meta tags for each article and even, which is very important for headings! Thanks to this wonderful
plug-in, you can very effectively move categories, which, as you know, can be fairly easily promoted by mid-
range and even high-frequency queries.
 Customize Title view for categories, archives, and everything else.
 Remove “snot” from search engine results.
 Add “Breadcrumbs” without additional plugins.
 Add XML Map without using other plugins.
See how much WordPress SEO by Yoast can do? Let’s now talk about each point separately and in detail.
What is an SEO by Yoast WordPress Plugin

SEO by Yoast: plugin setup


Setting up the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin takes place in stages, it is recommended to go in the following direction.

We can safely skip the “General” section, there is nothing interesting there, so we go straight to the next item.

Headers and metadata


Here we are interested in the second tab – “Home page”, this is where we will register the Title, the correct
Description, and Keywords for our entire site.

These are very important parameters, it is advisable to take some medium-frequency request (MF) as the Title, since
the “face” (home page) of the site is the easiest to promote, so it is worth doing it for any more “traffic” requests.

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Content types
Now let’s move on to the post types, here we leave only %% title %% %% page %% everywhere and don’t check the
boxes anywhere. The code “%% title %% %% page %%” displays in the Title of records and pages only the Title itself
without any additions, such as the name of your site. Thus, we remove %% sep %% and %% Sitename %%.%% sep
%% is a separator between the Title and URL of your site.%% Sitename %% – the actual name of your site.

Content
types

It does this so that the keywords that you prescribe in Title are not diluted with unnecessary phrases like your site
URL, thereby losing their weight for search engines.

An example of what the post title would look like in the first and second cases.
Without %% sep %% and %% sitename %%

WordPress SEO by Yoast – plugin setup 2020

With %% sep %% and %% sitename %%

WordPress SEO by Yoast – plugin setup 2020 – websitename.com,

Where the hyphen after 2020 is sep, and “website.com” is the name of the site. Agree, in this case, the title looks very
cumbersome, it is stuffed with unnecessary information and greatly reduces the wow effect of the SEO effect of such
a Title.

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