Getting Started with Yoast SEO By Arlen Nagata, HawaiiWP.com

In my opinion, Yoast SEO is the best SEO plugin for WordPress. • Lots of powerful features • Updated regularly • Highly Rated • Widely Used • Premium Addons available for more

I want to show you how to get started with this plugin.

What is SEO & Why should I care? Search Engine Optimization. You should care if you want your website, your business to be found online.

Let’s make it easy for Google to find your website and make you known to people searching for your business.

First let’s connect your website to Search Engines. SEO-General-Webmaster Tools

These webmaster tools provide a lot of information about who’s searching for you and what terms they use to search. These Search Analytics can help you optimize your website.

Next, let’s submit your sitemap to Google.

SEO-XML Sitemaps Make sure Sitemaps are enabled and copy the link of the sitemap. A Sitemap is a list of pages and you don’t want to wait for Google to find your website. You want to give Google a map of your site so it knows exactly where everything is.

There’s more to setup, but this gives us a great starting point for our websites.

I want to show you one last thing.

How to Optimize a Page for better Search Power.

At the bottom of every Post or Page you have a Yoast SEO Box. You can enter a Focus Keyword and see how you can optimize the content of that particular page to rank for that keyword.

Try to use key phrases rather than keywords. And draw inspiration from the Search Console you saw earlier.