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Beginner’s Guide to SEOPress

Have you just acquired SEOPress? Congratulations! You will be able to optimize the SEO of your WordPress site without further delay. Follow our complete guide, from setup to optimizing your traffic and conversions. ⤵️
01

Installation of SEOPress

Checking the technical prerequisites, installing our plugins on your WordPress site and activating your license key to receive automatic updates are the first steps to get started with SEOPress.

Goal: install SEOPress

SEOPress Installation
02

Configure SEOPress in 5 minutes

Follow our installation wizard to configure the basic settings essential for the proper functioning of SEOPress and for optimizing your SEO.

Quickly migrate your existing post and term metadata from other SEO pluginsYoastAIO SEOThe SEO FrameworkRank MathWP Meta SEOSquirrlySEO UltimatePremium SEO PackwpSEO, Platinum SEO Pack, SmartCrawl, SEOPressor, Slim SEO.

Goal: configure basic settings, migrate to SEOPress

SEOPress Wizard Assistant
03

Promote the exploration of your WordPress site by search engine robots

Help bots explore and understand your site architecture by providing them with an XML sitemap.

Goal: reduce the crawl budget, optimize exploration

To read:

SEOPress XML Sitemaps
04

Optimize content from A to Z with SEOPress

You just wrote your article but is it optimized for Google (or any other search engine)? Our content analysis is here to help. Not to mention our SEO metabox which allows you to individually modify your different metas: title, description, robots, social tags for Facebook, Twitter … and much more.

Goal: content suitable for search engines

To readfind the right keywords for your site’s SEO

05

Measure your traffic with Google Analytics or Matomo Cloud

To improve your traffic, you need to start by measuring it. For this, SEOPress makes your life easier by automatically generating and integrating the Google Analytics or Matomo Cloud / on-Premise tracking code on your site.

Goal: measure to optimize

To readmeasuring the performance of an e-commerce site with Google Analytics

Track your visitors with Google Analytics and Matomo
06

Is your WordPress site on Google (and Bing)?

Find out how to add your WordPress site to Google’s index. Measure your performance and detect indexing and crawling errors using the tools offered by Google and Bing.

Goal: your site on Google and Bing

To read: Indexing your WordPress site on Google (Step-by-Step)

Google structured data types with SEOPress
07

Optimize your click-through rate on social networks

Create a title and a relevant description for sharing your content on social networks using Open Graph tags (used by Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, WhatsApp …) and Twitter Cards. Dramatically increase your click-through rate by adding a specially formatted image to serving on these social platforms.

Goal: maximize your social presence

Optimize your click-through rate on social networks
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Hundred of hooks available to easily tweak SEOPress.

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