5 Simple Ways To Optimize Your WordPress Website

Having the most stylish and the most beautiful website in the world doesn’t mean a thing if you’re the only one who visits it. You don’t want to be all alone admiring your website. Of course, you can pay for traffic by advertising on social media or other platforms. But, would you really want to pay thousands of dollars in advertising fees when you can get highly qualified and FREE traffic from Google? Probably not. 

This is why search engine optimization or SEO is so important for online businesses. You may be a blogger, an affiliate marketer, or an online store owner, and I think you’ll agree with me when I say that search engine traffic is the best source of traffic. 

Here are a few ways you can optimize your website for search engine traffic:

1. Use a fast-loading theme

There are thousands of themes to choose from in WordPress.org. However, most of them will be slow. Google loves fast-loading sites, and you’d hate to find out your theme is causing your site to load slowly on people’s computers. 

2. Add a sitemap

Help search engines crawl your website content faster so they can add it to their database. The earlier your content gets crawled, the faster you can get your site to appear on search engine pages.

3. Install a caching plugin

There are a number of free caching plugins you can choose from. How it normally works is that it will generate a static HTML file of your web pages. This means that your web server will no longer have to serve up all your website files to each visitor. The static HTML files are lightweight, and this makes your site load faster on your visitor’s browser. 

4. Use human-readable permalinks

WordPress gives you a few options for how you want your permalinks to appear. The SEO-friendly format recommended by search engines are those that make it easy for people (and search engines) to understand what your content is about. The most common format used by SEO-optimized websites is the post-name permalink format.

5. Install a good SEO plugin

Yoast and All In One SEO Pack are two of the most popular SEO plugins. Choose which one you’d like to install, configure it properly, and you’ll have a nice SEO-optimized website soon.