Complete Yoast SEO Tutorial: WordPress SEO for Beginners (2024)
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Step-by-Step Tutorial: Optimizing Your WordPress Website with Yost SEO Plugin
Hello everyone, I’m Darel Wison, and welcome to this video. Today, I’ll be showing you how to optimize your WordPress website using the Yost SEO plugin. This plugin is free and allows you to optimize and index your WordPress site for the major search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing. With the Yost SEO plugin, you can optimize all the pages and articles of your website and display them as you like in search engine results.
Installing and Configuring Yost SEO Plugin
The first step is to install and configure the Yost SEO plugin. To do this, we need to scroll down to the list of plugins and click on "Add New Plugin." In the search field, type "Yost SEO" and select the plugin. Then, click on the "Install Now" button and activate it.
Once you’ve activated the plugin, you’ll see that you have more options to configure. You can also access these options by clicking on the "Yost SEO" tab on the left-hand side. Click on the "General" tab, which is the main dashboard of the plugin, and you’ll see the different parameters you can configure.
Basic Configuration
In the first section, you’ll need to click on the "Start SEO data optimization" button. This will help improve the indexing of your website by resolving technical issues related to the website and the plugin.
In the second section, you’ll need to configure your site. You can select "Organization" as the type of site you have. For our example, we’ll use an organization site. Enter your site name and logo, and click on the "Register" button.
Profile Setting
In this section, you’ll need to set up your profile. Fill in the required information, including your first and last name, and your site web. You can also add social profiles, such as Twitter or Facebook. Fill in the required information and click on the "Register" button.
Yost SEO Options
Now, let’s move on to the Yost SEO options. In this section, you’ll find several options to configure. We’ll discuss each option separately.
Meta Title and Description
In the Meta Title and Description section, you can configure the title and description of your webpage. Fill in the required information and click on the "Update" button.
Facebook and Twitter
In this section, you can configure your Facebook and Twitter accounts. Fill in the required information and click on the "Update" button.
Snippets
In the snippets section, you can configure the rich snippets for your website. This will display your content in a more visually appealing format in search engine results. Fill in the required information and click on the "Update" button.
Post Configuration
In this section, you’ll find options to configure your post. You can set the title, meta description, and content of your post. Fill in the required information and click on the "Update" button.
Conclusion
In conclusion, we’ve covered the basics of installing and configuring the Yost SEO plugin. With this plugin, you can optimize and index your WordPress site for the major search engines, which will improve your website’s visibility and rankings. Remember to fill in all the required information and configure each option to get the most out of this plugin. Thank you for watching this video, and I’ll see you in the next one.
Note: This is just a rewritten version of the original tutorial with the <b> tags added for subtitles.
