SEO recommendations for WordPress sites
My top recommendations for online SEO
Web vitals and speed
Google score for web vitals becomes a ranking factor. Many people think that good speed is enough, but this is not true in 2021. Now, you must care about methods of caching, how your files are loaded, how your images are loaded and cropped, what you show in the first screen. We found that dynamic content on top of the page (item carousel, sliders) reduced score a lot even if the site is fast. We updated our special tutorial for improving web vital on wordpress.
Mobile first
In 2021 you should care ONLY how site is working on mobiles. Take attention, that mobile has only 360px width. So, stop using this fu@cking popups, floating 20 social buttons on side of site, browser notice for updates from onesignal, sticky banners and subscription floating forms for mobiles. If user wants to subscribe, he will find your social icon on site. If you use floating elements, use only those which have a sense. For example, a button to add to the cart. Check our product demos on recart.wpsoul.com, refashion.wpsoul.net to see how elements are working differently on mobiles and desktop
Content strategy
Long content is working better now. Much better than before. Google announces passage as a ranking factor. It means that it will divide the long page into a logical sections. Each logical section has a chance to be ranked on top of Google. That’s why we spent a lot of time making special blocks and post layouts, like auto-generated table of contents, Color and review heading blocks which divide pages on logical parts.
Check reviewit.wpsoul.net demo for inspiration
Content formatting
Year, baby. Now it matters. Start using a different kind of content. Not just text and images, but also tables, good formatted blockquotes, charts and diagrams, faq accordions. This gives a chance to get a featured snippet in google
Cool blockquotes can increase attention to important parts
See example of post with different content formatters
Trustable external links
Now, it’s not only important to get links on your sites, it’s important to add links in the content to trustable sites. This can have a significant impact on affiliate links with redirect like in all affiliate networks. Because they use links like linksene.com?url=…. So all links will go to affiliate network first, then redirect to original site. You think that link cloaking will help. No, they don’t. Search spiders can read redirects now. So, direct affiliate programs from shops and links like iherb.cm?ref=22 is better
Video grows
If you didn’t make any video yet, start to do it. If you don’t know which video to make, do tutorials on how to do something. Use Camtasia or any other screen recorders for this
Seo tips still work
Adding seo keyword in the title, adding numbers in title, making the first paragraph as SEO optimized are still working. All previous seo rules still actual
Page hubs have good traffic
What is the page or product hub? Imagine that you have several products, one main product, several accessories, several cross-sells. Why do not make a separate page with great designs and describe products? This is usually called Lookbook. Another example, you have many articles about solutions for separate questions. You can create a page where you can group these questions into one big niche.
See example of top product hub
Focus on something one
Everything becomes more complex and more competitive. It’s simply not possible to cover everything. So, concentrate on something more bigger and important. If you have more traffic on social media, concentrate on it. Get your goal, then, you can try other sources.
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All demos examples on this page are made via Rehub theme
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Thanks for this article.
What about no-follow to affiliate links?
Do you think that is still necessary?
Thanks for your advice.
No difference for your site. Link juice will still go away from page. Difference only for destination site, they will not get link juice if you add nofollow.
P.s rel=sponsored is better for affiliate links
Which SEO support plugin do you prefer to use for Rehub?
Rank math
Hello. Do I need to put the name of the categories in the H1 tag? How to do it? Now category names are placed in div
it depends on your structure. If you have titles like “Mobiles” or “Furniture” then using h1 for such titles has no sense. You can use h1 inside category description