ear is added!</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now the year will be updated automatically for you &#8211; no need to spend time updating it yourself.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you prefer, you can also type in your SEO title and year directly in the Post Title field.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>2. Optimize Your Images with Descriptive Alt Text</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Alt text or alternative text is crucial for SEO. It helps Google understand what your images are about. As well as helps visitors to get information about your images if they can’t be displayed on your site.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alt text is an HTML attribute that’s added to the image tag, which is used to show images on a page.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>It can look like this:</p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>&lt;img src=\"img_playful-black-kitten.jpg\" <strong>alt=\"Playful black kitten\"</strong> width=\"500\" height=\"600\"&gt;</code></pre>\n\n\n\n<p>When writing your alt text, you should describe your image as clearly as possible. Don’t just use one or two words to write your alt text. Instead, imagine how you would describe your images to a blind person.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, rather than using just ‘cake&#8217; use ‘milk chocolate ice cream cake’. This will also help Google to rank your image in image search.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But don’t stuff your alt text with similar keywords thinking it’ll help you rank higher. In fact, it can result in the opposite and Google may see your site as spam.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can easily add your alt text in the WordPress block editor. Simply scroll down in the post or page you’re editing, and click on your image so that it gets marked with the blue frame. Then, go to the <strong>Image Settings </strong>in the right column of your editor, and type in your alt text in the <strong>Alt Text (alternative text) field.&nbsp;</strong></p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"367\" src=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/adding-alt-text-in-wordpress-block-editor.png\" alt=\"Adding alt text in WordPress block editor\" class=\"wp-image-31218\" srcset=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/adding-alt-text-in-wordpress-block-editor.png 730w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/adding-alt-text-in-wordpress-block-editor-300x151.png 300w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/adding-alt-text-in-wordpress-block-editor-600x302.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An easy step in boosting your <a href=\"https://aioseo.com/how-to-best-optimize-images-in-wordpress\">image SEO</a>, but that&#8217;s often overlooked. </p>\n\n\n\n<h3>3. Make Your URLs SEO-Friendly</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>An SEO-friendly URL describes the page using keywords that are easy to read for both search engines and users. It should first of all provide a good user experience and tell search engines what the page is about.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here’s an example of an SEO-friendly URL:&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>http:&#47;&#47;www.example.com/how-to-make-a-website</code></pre>\n\n\n\n<p>This URL is short, organized, and easy to read. Search engines and users can tell what the page is about.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unoptimized URLs, on the other hand, are random and hard to read or remember. They usually include numbers, letters, and special characters.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like this one:</p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>https:&#47;&#47;www.example.com/?p=10467</code></pre>\n\n\n\n<p>To make sure your URLs on your WordPress site are SEO-friendly, head over to <strong>Settings » Permalinks</strong> and mark the <strong>Post name</strong> option.</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/wordpress-seo-friendly-permalinks.png\" alt=\"Permalink settings in WordPress\" class=\"wp-image-31691\" srcset=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/wordpress-seo-friendly-permalinks.png 700w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/wordpress-seo-friendly-permalinks-300x169.png 300w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/wordpress-seo-friendly-permalinks-600x338.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This URL structure is SEO friendly in most cases, but it doesn’t apply to all websites.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, a news publication site might need a URL with the day and name. Or a large site with hundreds of articles might need a custom structure.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can check out WPBeginner&#8217;s post on <a href=\"https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/seo-friendly-url-structure-for-wordpress/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SEO-friendly URL structure for WordPress</a> to find the best URL structure for your business.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, don’t put dates or years in your URLs. This makes it more difficult to re-feature old content and users may think your content is old even after updating it. You’ll also save yourself the extra efforts of redirecting your URLs.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>4. Unlock More Traffic by Adding Related Keywords to Your Content</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It’s crucial to use the right variations of keywords if you want to increase your organic traffic and climb in rankings on Google. More importantly, you need to try and understand the intent behind what your users are searching for and optimize your content accordingly.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first step is to create easy-to-read and high-quality content that uses related keywords and keyphrases. This also helps Google to understand the meaning or intent behind your content, and match it with more searches.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best of all, the more keyword variations you use in your content, the more searches you can rank for, and the more traffic you’ll unlock!</p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can easily find more keywords using AIOSEO’s <a class=\"thirstylink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"SEMRush\" href=\"https://aioseo.com/recommends/semrush/\" data-shortcode=\"true\">Semrush</a> integration. It will give you suggestions of additional keywords and even give you the search volume and trends straight from the screen.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simply scroll down in the post or page you’re editing below your <strong>Focus Keyphrase</strong> and click on the <strong>Get Additional Keyphrases</strong> button.</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"419\" src=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/get-additional-keyphrases-in-all-in-one-seo.png\" alt=\"Get additional keyphrases in All in One SEO\" class=\"wp-image-31682\" srcset=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/get-additional-keyphrases-in-all-in-one-seo.png 730w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/get-additional-keyphrases-in-all-in-one-seo-300x172.png 300w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/get-additional-keyphrases-in-all-in-one-seo-600x344.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This will open a new window where you can view suggestions of <strong>Additional Keyphrases.&nbsp;</strong></p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"359\" src=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/additional-keyphrases-by-semrush.png\" alt=\"Additional keyphrases by Semrush in All in One SEO\" class=\"wp-image-30305\" srcset=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/additional-keyphrases-by-semrush.png 730w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/additional-keyphrases-by-semrush-300x148.png 300w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/additional-keyphrases-by-semrush-600x295.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With a single click on the <strong>Add Keyphrase</strong> button, the new keyphrase will be added to your content.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you can see, it’s never been easier to rank for more keywords and dominate the search results.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>5. Write Descriptive Meta Descriptions to Boost Rankings</h3>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-728b70e0-7e8d-48c8-9a27-f533314a456d\">Meta descriptions have always been an essential part of SEO, and this isn’t likely to change any time soon.</p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-728b70e0-7e8d-48c8-9a27-f533314a456d\">The meta description is an HTML tag that summarizes a page’s content. Its purpose is to provide a short description of your page for search engines and users searching for content in the SERPs.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here’s an example of AIOSEO’s meta description from the search results on Google:</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"174\" src=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/meta-description-all-in-one-seo.png\" alt=\"Example of meta description for All in One SEO\" class=\"wp-image-31685\" srcset=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/meta-description-all-in-one-seo.png 730w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/meta-description-all-in-one-seo-300x72.png 300w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/meta-description-all-in-one-seo-600x143.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, Google mainly focuses on the user experience, so a good meta description should explain what your post or page is about. It should also be appealing enough for users to click through to your site.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>That said, a good meta description should:</p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Describe your page’s content</li><li>Answers users questions&nbsp;</li><li>Include a call to action</li><li>Be unique and interesting</li><li>Include your main or focus keyword</li></ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, it can’t include all of the above at the same time. But depending on the topic of your page, you need to write as descriptive and interesting meta descriptions as possible to increase your CTR and boost rankings.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>With AIOSEO, you can easily craft your meta descriptions directly in the <strong>Meta Description</strong> field.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"179\" src=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/entering-meta-description-in-aioseo.png\" alt=\"Entering your meta description in All in One SEO\" class=\"wp-image-31687\" srcset=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/entering-meta-description-in-aioseo.png 730w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/entering-meta-description-in-aioseo-300x74.png 300w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/entering-meta-description-in-aioseo-600x147.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Don’t forget to include your main or focus keyword that you want to rank for.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also use any of the pre-installed tags to insert different variables. For example, the <strong>+ Post Excerpt </strong>automatically adds your post’s excerpt to your meta description.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"181\" src=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/adding-your-meta-description-in-aioseo.png\" alt=\"Adding your meta description in All in One SEO using variables\" class=\"wp-image-31688\" srcset=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/adding-your-meta-description-in-aioseo.png 730w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/adding-your-meta-description-in-aioseo-300x74.png 300w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/adding-your-meta-description-in-aioseo-600x149.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And AIOSEO even gives you the max recommended characters for your meta description. If you use more characters, your meta description will be cut off in the search result pages.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>6. Create an XML Sitemap to Help Google Find Your New Content</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>An XML sitemap is a list of every new and important URL on your website. In other words, it helps Google to find and crawl your new content.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>With AlOSEO, you can easily create an XML sitemap and send it to all popular search engines. In fact, once you’ve <a href=\"https://aioseo.com/docs/installing-all-in-one-seo-pro/\">installed and activated</a> AIOSEO, it automatically generates a sitemap for you.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>All you need to do is check if it’s enabled by navigating to <strong>All in One SEO menu » Sitemaps </strong>and click on the <strong>General Sitemap</strong> tab.</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"430\" src=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/sitemaps-menu-item-in-all-in-one-seo.png\" alt=\"General sitemap menu in All in One SEO\" class=\"wp-image-31227\" srcset=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/sitemaps-menu-item-in-all-in-one-seo.png 730w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/sitemaps-menu-item-in-all-in-one-seo-300x177.png 300w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/sitemaps-menu-item-in-all-in-one-seo-600x353.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This will open the General Sitemap window, where you can see that the <strong>Enable Sitemap</strong> option is set to on.</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"346\" src=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/enable-sitemap-in-all-in-one-seo.png\" alt=\"Enable XML sitemap in All in One SEO\" class=\"wp-image-31228\" srcset=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/enable-sitemap-in-all-in-one-seo.png 730w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/enable-sitemap-in-all-in-one-seo-300x142.png 300w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/enable-sitemap-in-all-in-one-seo-600x284.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That’s it!</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, if you use videos on your website, you can create a <a href=\"https://aioseo.com/how-to-create-a-video-sitemap-in-wordpress-the-easy-way/\">video sitemap</a> to make sure Google finds your video content. And if you have a news website, you can create a <a href=\"https://aioseo.com/submit-your-site-to-google-news/\">news sitemap</a> that automatically gets submitted to Google News.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>7. Use Schema Markup and Rank for Google Rich Snippets</h3>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-7f11f71a-2f50-4d72-9b8e-c431fd9368fc\">You’ve probably seen those nice looking rich search results on Google with star ratings and prices or questions and answers.</p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-7f11f71a-2f50-4d72-9b8e-c431fd9368fc\">Google rich snippets can help you unlock the highest rankings and traffic for your site without you having to be an SEO expert. They allow you to add additional information about your pages.</p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-7f11f71a-2f50-4d72-9b8e-c431fd9368fc\">Here’s an example of a rich snippet for recipes:&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"358\" src=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/recipe-rich-snippet.png\" alt=\"Example of recipe rich snippet on Google\" class=\"wp-image-26196\" srcset=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/recipe-rich-snippet.png 730w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/recipe-rich-snippet-300x147.png 300w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/recipe-rich-snippet-600x294.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Looks good, right?!</p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you can see, they show additional information like star ratings, cooking time, and ingredients straight from the search results.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best of all, your listings get more noticeable in search, which means that you’re likely to drive more organic traffic to your site and increase sales.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here’s another example of a rich snippet for FAQs:</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"378\" src=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/expanded-faq-rich-snippet-example.png\" alt=\"Example of FAQ rich snippet on Google\" class=\"wp-image-25922\" srcset=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/expanded-faq-rich-snippet-example.png 730w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/expanded-faq-rich-snippet-example-300x155.png 300w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/expanded-faq-rich-snippet-example-600x311.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The FAQs rich snippets are useful for people searching for information and need quick answers to their questions. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best of all, unlike most SEO changes, it doesn’t take months or years to see results from this. You can literally see results in less than 30 minutes.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Google rich snippets are created by adding schema markup or structured data to your web pages. You can easily add schema markup to your pages using AIOSEO. For more details, please check out our guide <a href=\"https://aioseo.com/how-to-add-rich-snippets-to-wordpress/\">on how to add rich snippets to WordPress</a>.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>8. Use an SEO Checklist to Optimize Your Website</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You won’t know how your SEO is doing and what to improve without analyzing your site. You can target critical issues and warnings before they hurt your rankings.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>AIOSEO’s <strong>SEO Audit Checklist </strong>is a fantastic tool that will take your SEO efforts to the next level. Best of all, it’s a great tool for beginners who don’t know that much about SEO and how to best optimize their websites.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>It lets you analyze your website in seconds and follow an easy-to-understand checklist to optimize your website for search engines. To get started analyzing your site, you need to navigate to the <strong>SEO Audit Checklist</strong> in the <strong>SEO Analysis</strong> settings.</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" src=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/aioseo-site-score-1-1024x731.png\" alt=\"Analyzing your overall site score in All in One SEO\" class=\"wp-image-31695\" srcset=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/aioseo-site-score-1-1024x731.png 1024w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/aioseo-site-score-1-300x214.png 300w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/aioseo-site-score-1-768x548.png 768w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/aioseo-site-score-1-600x429.png 600w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/aioseo-site-score-1.png 1277w\" sizes=\"100vw\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From here, you can check your SEO site score. The general rule of thumb is to aim for a score of 60 and above. If you end up with a low score, then you can scroll down to the<strong> Complete SEO Checklist</strong> section and look for recommendations on how to improve your score.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"485\" src=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/seo-site-analysis.png\" alt=\"Analysis of basic SEO in All in One SEO\" class=\"wp-image-31696\" srcset=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/seo-site-analysis.png 700w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/seo-site-analysis-300x208.png 300w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/seo-site-analysis-600x416.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, from the above screenshot, it looks like this website is missing some critical areas of basic SEO. Now that you know these problems, you can use this checklist to fix them and raise your SEO score to get higher rankings.&nbsp;Check out our <a href=\"https://aioseo.com/features/seo-audit-checklist/\">SEO Audit Checklist feature page</a> to learn more about this fantastic SEO tool.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, let&#8217;s take a look at something exciting!</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>9. Spy on Your Competitors and Steal Their Keyword Ideas</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A great way to get ahead of your competition is to do an SEO competitor analysis and steal your competitor&#8217;s keyword ideas.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>When analyzing what’s working for your competitors, you&#8217;ll get insight into the strategies that are successful for others in your market. And by finding the keywords that give your competitors the highest ROI (Return on Investment), you can use this information to improve your own SEO efforts and gain an edge.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>AIOSEO’s <strong>Analyze Competitor Site</strong> tool lets you spy on your competitors with a single click. Just enter your competitor’s website URL in the <strong>Enter Competitor URL</strong> field, and press the <strong>Analyze</strong> button.</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"542\" src=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/aioseo-competitor-analysis-analyze-competitor-site.png\" alt=\"Analyzing your competitor\'s SEO in All in One SEO\" class=\"wp-image-31697\" srcset=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/aioseo-competitor-analysis-analyze-competitor-site.png 730w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/aioseo-competitor-analysis-analyze-competitor-site-300x223.png 300w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/aioseo-competitor-analysis-analyze-competitor-site-600x445.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Your competitor’s SEO analysis will then show up in the same window, and you can see what keywords they’re using and get valuable WordPress SEO tips. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also compare other important SEO metrics, like page title, description, and page load speed.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pretty great!</p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is really valuable if you want to improve your SEO efforts and gain an edge over your competitors. For more details, you can check out our guide on <a href=\"https://aioseo.com/how-to-do-an-seo-competitor-analysis/\">how to do an SEO competitor analysis the easy way.</a></p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"site-speed-seo-hacks\">Site Speed SEO Hacks: Optimize Your Site for Speed</h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Google has confirmed that site speed is a ranking factor on both desktop and mobile, so it’s important that your website is fast enough. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at a few things you can do to increase your site speed without having to be a web developer next.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>10. Install a Cache Plugin to Increase Page Loading</h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https://aioseo.com/recommends/wp-rocket/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"372\" src=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/wp-rocket-homepage.png\" alt=\"WP Rocket WordPress cache plugin\" class=\"wp-image-31236\" srcset=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/wp-rocket-homepage.png 730w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/wp-rocket-homepage-300x153.png 300w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/wp-rocket-homepage-600x306.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" /></a></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To optimize your site for speed, you can start by using a cache plugin. Browser caching can help speed up your website by storing some of the larger files on your site locally in the user’s web browser.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, <a href=\"https://aioseo.com/recommends/wp-rocket/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WP Rocket</a> offers a comprehensive set of tools to help speed up your website, such as page caching and preloading.&nbsp;You can also use other cache plugins, such as <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-optimize/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WP Optimize</a> or <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-fastest-cache/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WP Fastest Cache</a>.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>11. Compress Your Images to Reduce File Size</h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https://tinypng.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/tiny-png-image-compression.png\" alt=\"TinyPNG image compression service \" class=\"wp-image-27767\" srcset=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/tiny-png-image-compression.png 730w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/tiny-png-image-compression-300x148.png 300w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/tiny-png-image-compression-600x296.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" /></a></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Compressing your images to reduce your site’s overall file size is crucial for SEO since it affects your page loading. A website that’s large in file size gets heavy and will take longer to load.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortunately, you can speed up your page loading by compressing your images. You’ll also decrease your <a href=\"https://www.monsterinsights.com/how-to-reduce-bounce-rate/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bounce rate</a> from users who don’t have the patience to wait for your site to finish loading.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>To compress your images, you can use free services, such as:</p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https://tinypng.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">TinyPNG</a> for PNG &amp; JPG files</li><li><a href=\"https://compressjpeg.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">CompressJPEG</a> for JPG files</li><li><a href=\"https://imagecompressor.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Optimizilla</a> for PNG &amp; JPG files</li></ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This can reduce your image file size by 70% and more, which will have a huge impact on your site speed.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>12. Use a CDN to Improve Site Speed Even More</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>And if you want to take your site speed efforts to the next level, you can use a CDN (Content Delivery Network) to serve a cached version of your site from the server closest to your geographical location.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will help speed up your website because it limits the number of internet hops it takes to display your content from your original server (your web hosting provider).</p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about CDN and how to connect your site, you can check out WPBeginner’s guide on <a href=\"https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-install-wordpress-cdn-solution-maxcdn/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">how to install and setup WordPress CDN</a>.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>13. Make Your Site Mobile-Friendly Using a Responsive Theme</h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https://aioseo.com/recommends/studiopress-authority-pro/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"379\" src=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/authoritypro-responsive-wordpress-theme.jpg\" alt=\"Authority Pro responsive WordPress theme\" class=\"wp-image-31698\" srcset=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/authoritypro-responsive-wordpress-theme.jpg 730w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/authoritypro-responsive-wordpress-theme-300x156.jpg 300w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/authoritypro-responsive-wordpress-theme-600x312.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" /></a></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The rise of mobile devices has made failure to look after mobile SEO a death sentence. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t stop breathing now&#8230;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;it&#8217;s not as bad as it seems. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>If your site isn’t optimized for mobile, Google will still show it. But it&#8217;ll rank mobile-friendly sites higher because of its mobile-first index. With mobile-first-index means that Google mainly uses the mobile version of your content to index and rank your site.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>That being the case, the easiest way to make your site mobile-friendly is to use a responsive WordPress theme that adapts to different screen sizes and devices. To find a responsive theme, please visit WPForm’s post on the <a href=\"https://wpforms.com/best-responsive-wordpress-themes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">60+ best responsive WordPress themes</a>.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"content-seo-hacks\">Content SEO Hacks: Get Traffic From Existing Content</h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you know that you can increase your organic traffic just by updating your existing or old content?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the right content SEO strategy, you can rank higher in search results for your existing content, increase CTR, and drive more organic traffic to your website. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are a few easy content SEO tips that can have major effects on your rankings!</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>14. Use Long-Tail Keywords to Get More Organic Traffic</h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"320\" src=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/search-deman-curve-long-tail-keywords-768x320-1.png\" alt=\"Search demand curve infographic\" class=\"wp-image-31700\" srcset=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/search-deman-curve-long-tail-keywords-768x320-1.png 768w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/search-deman-curve-long-tail-keywords-768x320-1-300x125.png 300w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/search-deman-curve-long-tail-keywords-768x320-1-600x250.png 600w\" sizes=\"100vw\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you know that long-tail keywords make up for 70% of search traffic? So if you want to get more organic traffic, you should definitely use long-tail keywords in your content.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what are long-tail keywords really?<br><br>Long-tail keywords are phrases people enter into search engines when they’re looking for something specific. Often, they&#8217;re 3 or more words. And they can help increase your organic traffic, dominate search rankings, and boost your conversions.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let’s say a user wants to purchase running shoes. An example of a long-tail keyword would be: <strong>buy running shoes for flat feet</strong>. On the other hand, a short-tail keyword would be: <strong>buy shoes</strong>.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Optimizing Your Content for Long-Tail Keywords</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>With AIOSEO, you can add long-tail keywords and even get an SEO analysis of how well you’ve optimized them in your content. All you need to do is enter your long-tail keyword in the <strong>Focus Keyphrase</strong> field and press <strong>Enter</strong>.</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"419\" src=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/keyword-analysis-in-all-in-one-seo.png\" alt=\"Focus keyphrase analysis in All in One SEO\" class=\"wp-image-31703\" srcset=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/keyword-analysis-in-all-in-one-seo.png 730w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/keyword-analysis-in-all-in-one-seo-300x172.png 300w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/keyword-analysis-in-all-in-one-seo-600x344.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>AIOSEO then checks how well you’ve used it in your content and gives recommendations on improvements. This, so that you can maximize your rankings in search engines.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>15. Improve Readability and Keep Visitors on Your Site</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you know that users spend less than a second deciding whether they want to stay on a page or not? That’s why your content has to be interesting, engaging, and easy to read so that the readers want to stay glued to your site.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Readability is also an important factor for search engines. Like mentioned earlier, content that’s easier to read often ranks higher than content that’s difficult to read. It also lowers your <a href=\"https://www.monsterinsights.com/how-to-find-your-bounce-rate-in-google-analytics/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bounce rate</a>, and Google sees your site as more relevant.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>That’s why you should always break up your content with shorter sentences, subheadings, images, quotes, and bullet lists—anything that will keep the reader glued to your content and stay on your site.</p>\n\n\n\n<h4>Improve Readability Using AIOSEO</h4>\n\n\n\n<p>AIOSEO automatically analyzes readability issues and makes suggestions on how you can improve your content in the <strong>Page Analysis</strong> section. Simply click on the <strong>Readability</strong> tab and it will show a list of what you&#8217;ve done well and what needs to be improved.</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"551\" src=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/aioseo-page-analysis-readability.png\" alt=\"Readability analysis in All in One SEO\" class=\"wp-image-31704\" srcset=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/aioseo-page-analysis-readability.png 730w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/aioseo-page-analysis-readability-300x226.png 300w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/aioseo-page-analysis-readability-600x453.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here you can see that this blog post has 4 readability errors that need to be fixed and recommendations on how to improve your content.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Use AIOSEO&#8217;s <a href=\"https://aioseo.com/blog-post-seo-checklist/#focus-on-readability\">readability analysis tool</a> to improve your content, and you’ll keep visitors glued to your site in no time.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>16. Help Google Discover Your New Content With Internal Linking</h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"591\" src=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Internal-linking-strategy-infographic-by-mpdigitalmarketing.png\" alt=\"Internal linking strategy infographic by MP Digital Marketing\" class=\"wp-image-31912\" srcset=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Internal-linking-strategy-infographic-by-mpdigitalmarketing.png 730w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Internal-linking-strategy-infographic-by-mpdigitalmarketing-300x243.png 300w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Internal-linking-strategy-infographic-by-mpdigitalmarketing-600x486.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It’s important to have a good internal link structure for SEO. This helps visitors navigate your site, and it also helps Google to discover your new content.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two main methods for building a good internal link profile:</p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Always include relevant internal links to your own content whenever publishing a new piece of content. </li><li>And on a regular basis (weekly or monthly), update your older content to add links to newer content.</li></ol>\n\n\n\n<p>This will help your readers and Google to discover how all your content is related. And to make sure Google knows about all your links and ranks your content, you need to write descriptive anchor texts. As well as creating an <a href=\"https://aioseo.com/docs/how-to-create-an-xml-sitemap/\" title=\"How to Create an XML Sitemap\">XML sitemap </a>as we showed you earlier.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>17. Repurpose Your Existing Content Into a Podcast</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Another simple way of repurposing your content is to turn it into podcasts. Through podcasts, you can use your content to build a community and then direct them to your website for more information. This will help boost your rankings and drive more traffic to your site.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>To create a podcast, you don’t have to do anything fancy. In fact, you can simply read out your blog posts, record the audio, and then upload it to your website using a <a href=\"https://www.monsterinsights.com/best-wordpress-podcasting-plugins/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WordPress podcast plugin</a>.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then you can submit your podcast to platforms like iTunes and Google Play to attract an audience and ask them to visit your website. For more details, you can check out WPBeginner’s step by step guide on <a href=\"https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/step-by-step-guide-how-to-start-a-podcast-with-wordpress/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">how to start a podcast</a>.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>18. Get Conversational and Optimize for Voice Search</h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"706\" height=\"384\" src=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/google-voice-search.png\" alt=\"Google voice search\" class=\"wp-image-31705\" srcset=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/google-voice-search.png 706w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/google-voice-search-300x163.png 300w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/google-voice-search-704x384.png 704w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/google-voice-search-600x326.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Voice search is quickly becoming one of the most popular ways consumers search for products and services online. It’s now more convenient for people to simply talk into their phones or smart speakers instead of opening Google every time they&#8217;ve got a question.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>For instance, did you know that 45 million people use voice assistants every single day, and Google Assistant usage has increased by <a href=\"https://aioseo.com/100-seo-statistics/#voice-search-seo-statistics\">400%</a> in the last year?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this in mind, we bet you&#8217;re now wondering how to optimize your site for voice search?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>To optimize your site for voice search, you need to start with the following two steps:</p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Try and figure out what a consumer will likely say, instead of type. Strangely enough, these two things are often different, so choosing the right keywords for voice optimization is important. </li><li>Focus on publishing content that’s conversational on your site and write as you believe users will speak. </li></ol>\n\n\n\n<p>This, together with adding your main keywords to the content will take you far.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>19. Increase Conversions by Linking Your RSS Feed</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you know that you can Increase conversions by linking to your highest converting pages in your RSS feed?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>RSS (Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary) is a type of web feed that allows users and applications to receive regular updates from a website or blog of their choice.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>It’s a simple XML text file that includes a site’s updated information, which gets plugged into a feed reader that users can subscribe to.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>WordPress comes with built-in default RSS feeds. But you can tweak and take control over the default feeds to increase conversions using AIOSEO.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, in the <strong>RSS Content Settings</strong>, you can add text and links before or after your content.</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"363\" src=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/rss-content-tags-in-all-in-one-seo.png\" alt=\"Editing the RSS feed in All in One SEO\" class=\"wp-image-31706\" srcset=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/rss-content-tags-in-all-in-one-seo.png 730w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/rss-content-tags-in-all-in-one-seo-300x149.png 300w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/rss-content-tags-in-all-in-one-seo-600x298.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here you can click on the tag you want to add and the link will be included in your feed. Or you can type in text straight into the field.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a great way of directing your readers to your most converting pages and growing your business.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>20. Optimize Your Video Content and Rank in Video Search</h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"308\" src=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/google-video-search.png\" alt=\"Google video search\" class=\"wp-image-31707\" srcset=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/google-video-search.png 730w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/google-video-search-300x127.png 300w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/google-video-search-600x253.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https://optinmonster.com/video-marketing-statistics-what-you-must-know/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">87%</a> of video marketers say video has increased traffic to their website, and 80% say it directly helped to increase sales. Like you probably understand, videos are a great way to grow your website traffic and business.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adding videos to your website can also help with:</p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Increasing Your CTR (Click-Through-Rate) </strong>— including video on your site drives a <a href=\"https://www.monsterinsights.com/seo-statistics/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">157%</a> increase in organic traffic.</li><li><strong>Lowering Your Bounce Rate</strong> — people spend over twice as long on a page with video than without.</li><li><strong>Help You Get More Quality Backlinks </strong>— the higher the quality of your content, the more likely you are to get quality backlinks.</li></ul>\n\n\n\n<p>That being the case, it’s important that you optimize your video content to help Google find your videos and rank them in video search. And a first step is to create a video sitemap.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is super easy with the help of AIOSEO!</p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, if you have AIOSEO’s <a href=\"https://aioseo.com/pricing/\">Pro</a> version, the video sitemap is enabled by default. To learn how to configure your video sitemap, please visit our guide on <a href=\"https://aioseo.com/how-to-create-a-video-sitemap-in-wordpress-the-easy-way/\">how to create a video sitemap in WordPress the easy way</a>.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"social-networks-seo-hacks\">Social Networks SEO Hacks: Get More Referral Traffic</h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Social networks SEO includes the things you&#8217;re doing to optimize your social media networks to get more referral traffic to your website. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also helps you get more visibility online and can strengthen your brand. Let&#8217;s take a look at some quick and easy hacks that can boost your social media SEO next.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>21. Let Google Know About Your Social Media Profiles</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Optimizing your social media is important because it can strengthen your brand. You’ll gain more visibility and can generate more leads for your business. Also, the more your content is shared on social media, the more people will see it and link to it.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>More importantly, it’ll also help you get more visibility in search. After all, your social media profiles are often ranked on the first page of the search results.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>AIOSEO lets you connect up to 11 <strong>Social Profiles</strong> to let Google know which social media profiles are associated with your website:</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"587\" src=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/aioseo-social-networks-social-profiles.png\" alt=\"Social networks settings in All in One SEO\" class=\"wp-image-24649\" srcset=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/aioseo-social-networks-social-profiles.png 730w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/aioseo-social-networks-social-profiles-300x241.png 300w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/aioseo-social-networks-social-profiles-600x482.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Simply paste in the URLs to your social media profiles and AIOSEO will let search engines know about them.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>22. Add Twitter Cards and Facebook Thumbnails </h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Adding Twitter Cards and Facebook thumbnails on your website lets you control how your content looks when shared on social media.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>It lets you choose the image and text that’s displayed, which means that more people will likely notice your content and click on it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, this is a Twitter Card when sharing WPBeginner’s post on <a href=\"https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/step-by-step-guide-how-to-start-a-podcast-with-wordpress/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">how to start your own podcast</a> on Twitter:</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"435\" src=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/wpbeginner-twitter-card-example-1.png\" alt=\"Example of summary with large image twitter card in All in One SEO\" class=\"wp-image-23817\" srcset=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/wpbeginner-twitter-card-example-1.png 730w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/wpbeginner-twitter-card-example-1-300x179.png 300w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/wpbeginner-twitter-card-example-1-600x358.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As you can see, it looks appealing and you can include more information about your content.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here’s another example of what <a href=\"https://aioseo.com/add-twitter-cards-in-wordpress/\">one of our posts</a> looks like after choosing which thumbnail that’s used when it’s shared on Facebook:</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"397\" src=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/aioseo-facebook-thumbnail-example.png\" alt=\"Example of facebook thumbnail in All in One SEO\" class=\"wp-image-24265\" srcset=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/aioseo-facebook-thumbnail-example.png 730w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/aioseo-facebook-thumbnail-example-300x163.png 300w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/aioseo-facebook-thumbnail-example-600x326.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>These nice looking thumbnails capture people’s interest, which makes them more likely to click on and share your content.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Twitter Cards and Facebook thumbnails, you’ll also make sure that the right featured image is shown when your content is shared on social media. Best of all, it&#8217;ll increase referral traffic to your site.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>AIOSEO makes this super easy and enables Twitter Cards and Facebook thumbnails by default upon activation. But if you want to customize them and add extra information, you can check out our guides on <a href=\"https://aioseo.com/add-twitter-cards-in-wordpress/\">how to add Twitter Cards in WordPress</a> and <a href=\"https://aioseo.com/how-to-fix-wrong-facebook-thumbnail-in-wordpress/\">how to fix the wrong Facebook thumbnail</a>.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>23. 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Get Featured on Google’s Knowledge Panel and Google Maps</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>If you’re running a brick and mortar store or offering your services in a specific location, you should create a Business Profile in <a href=\"https://www.google.com/business/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Google My Business</a>.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Business Profiles are specific to businesses that serve customers at a particular location or within a designated service area.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why is this important for SEO, you may ask?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Google My Business profile is important for SEO because it lets you be more visible in local search and Google Maps where your potential customers can easily find your business.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>You’ll have your own profile and you can add your business’s information, photos, and showcase reviews straight from the search results.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, when people search for a business (for example, Walmart Pharmacy), Google may show a Knowledge Graph card with the nearby locations for Walmart’s Pharmacy:&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"592\" src=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/example-of-google-knowledge-graph-card.png\" alt=\"Example of Google Knowledge Graph card \" class=\"wp-image-30099\" srcset=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/example-of-google-knowledge-graph-card.png 730w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/example-of-google-knowledge-graph-card-300x243.png 300w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/example-of-google-knowledge-graph-card-600x487.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" /></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This makes it easy for people to find your brick and mortar locations and puts your company right at the top of the results. Best of all, this will increase the click through rate to your site and likely lead to more sales for your business.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But to increase your chances of getting featured in Google’s Knowledge Panel, you need to add Google’s local business structured data or schema markup to your website.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>With AIOSEO’s Local Business SEO addon, you can easily set this up and start increasing your rankings in the local search results, Google Maps, and the Knowledge panel in no time. For more details, please visit our <a href=\"https://aioseo.com/docs/local-business-seo/\">local business SEO documentation</a>.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>27. Build and Optimize Your Citations</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Citations are important because they help Google to trust your business and show it in search results.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>If Google sees consistent citations of your business name, address, and phone number, it counts this to be trustworthy information. Conflicting info about your business can negatively impact your rankings.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first thing you need to do is make sure your business information is displayed on your website where it’s easy to find. For instance, it can be on your homepage, in your footer, or on a contact us page.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>To avoid inconsistency when adding citations to other sites, it can be good to use a Listing Management solution like <a href=\"https://aioseo.com/recommends/semrush/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Semrush</a> offers:</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https://aioseo.com/recommends/semrush/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"361\" src=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/semrush-listing-management-solution.png\" alt=\"Semrush\'s listing management tool\" class=\"wp-image-27772\" srcset=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/semrush-listing-management-solution.png 730w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/semrush-listing-management-solution-300x148.png 300w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/semrush-listing-management-solution-600x297.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" /></a></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>All you need to do is enter your business information and Semrush will make sure your business info appears consistently on every major citation site on the internet (including Facebook, Google My Business, Yellow Pages, and more).</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But don’t forget to remove duplicate citations since they can push your rankings down due to inconsistencies in data.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>28. Submit Your Site to High Quality Local Directories</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To increase visibility online and boost your rankings, you should also submit your site to local directories, such as Yelp and Bing.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, you have to make sure they’re quality directories or it can hurt your rankings.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>That said, Yelp is one of the most popular sites for business discovery and reviews. And getting listed on Bing can help you earn more leads for your business.</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https://aioseo.com/recommends/yelp/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img src=\"https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/kxasAs6juNLuoiAoMvMvie8B7Fk_QV0J5ljgwQn391VpQj4RhPjnyCP_gLJBmF6bnyHrrQCQmHFvbbrIrXHxNEcz6cXNSYxwB0ktXIrx3vvqMUQO5wCFj3sYge3am8vpxIkIB9NS\" alt=\"Yelp business directory\"/></a></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, checking <a href=\"https://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/10322/the-ultimate-list-50-local-business-directories.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">HubSpot’s local business directory</a> list will help you find quality directories.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, the best thing is to try and identify the local directories where your customers are and add your business to them.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don’t forget to keep your business information consistent on all directories to be trusted and favored by Google. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more local SEO hacks in our <a href=\"https://aioseo.com/a-complete-local-seo-checklist/\" title=\"A Complete Local SEO Checklist: 10 Tips to Improve Rankings\">ultimate local SEO checklist</a>.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"off-page-seo-hacks\">Off-Page SEO Hacks: Winning Backlink Strategies </h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Off-page SEO includes what you&#8217;re doing outside of your own website to impact your rankings in search results.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using the right off-page SEO hacks, you can get more referral traffic to your website. As well as quality backlinks that will strengthen your authority online and improve rankings.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at two winning off-page SEO strategies next.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>29. Look for Guest Blogging Opportunities to Get Backlinks</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most effective types of link building and getting more quality backlinks is guest blogging. Guest blogging works because you offer value to site owners in exchange for a link back to your site.<br><br>If you choose your guest blogging targets carefully, you can soon build up a diverse and authoritative inbound link profile.<br><br>To guest blog effectively, you need to:</p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Identify sites that accept guest posts</li><li>Pitch and create stellar content</li><li>Create a bio that helps both with link building and lead generation</li></ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more in OptinMonster’s <a href=\"https://optinmonster.com/ultimate-guide-to-guest-blogging-strategy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ultimate guide to guest blogging</a>.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>30. Create and Add Infographics to Your Site&nbsp;</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Creating and promoting infographics is yet another powerful strategy that can increase website traffic, improve your domain authority, and boost your SEO.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>For instance, if you create an infographic that focuses on a trending topic, and includes helpful stats and data visualizations, it can get people interested in that topic to share your infographic with others.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here’s an example of WPBeginner’s infographic of <a href=\"https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/facts-about-wordpress/?display=wide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">25 things you don’t know about WordPress</a>:</p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/facts-about-wordpress/?display=wide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"596\" src=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/wpbeginner-wordpress-infographic.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31711\" srcset=\"https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/wpbeginner-wordpress-infographic.png 730w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/wpbeginner-wordpress-infographic-300x245.png 300w, https://aioseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/wpbeginner-wordpress-infographic-600x490.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" /></a></figure></div>\n\n\n\n<p>What you need to do is create your infographic and then publish it on your website so that users have a place to link back to. You can find tools that’ll help you create infographics in OptinMonster’s post on <a href=\"https://optinmonster.com/best-visual-content-creation-tools/#info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">51 visual content creation tools to make marketing easy</a>.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, you shouldn’t share the infographic by itself. Like mentioned earlier, Google can see it as thin content if it doesn’t include text as well.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So a good strategy is to publish a new post with your infographic and add some text explaining your process and your findings within the infographic. Don’t forget to also add an embed code to make it easy for others to share your infographic.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that’s all! </p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now you&#8217;ve learned 30 actionable and powerful SEO hacks that are guaranteed to grow your traffic. Using these SEO tips, will help you maximize your traffic, climb the rankings in search engines, convert your website visitors into leads, and build a strong brand presence in your market.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before you go, you may also want to check out our <a href=\"https://aioseo.com/a-complete-local-seo-checklist/\">local SEO checklist</a> and <a href=\"https://aioseo.com/ultimate-wordpress-seo-guide/\" title=\"Ultimate WordPress SEO Guide: Optimize Your Site in 2021\">ultimate WordPress SEO guide</a>.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, <a href=\"https://aioseo.com/pricing/\">get started with AIOSEO</a> and optimize your website like a pro!</p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button u-pl0\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-theme-background-color has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https://aioseo.com/pricing/\" style=\"background-color:#009966\" rel=\"\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-theme-background-color\">Get Started with AIOSEO 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We&#8217;re gonna work our way into “what are we doing with it?” and then “how are we planning on getting this out the door?” Then, a couple of big picture questions that people asked. We&#8217;re just gonna leap right in this full site editing part of the Gutenberg plugin, or is it a standalone plugin?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matías [1:39]: Okay, we&#8217;ll start with the basics. Full site editing is part of the Gutenberg plugin right now. I think it&#8217;s important to mention that full site editing is like an umbrella for several projects that we&#8217;re working on. They are all aiming to bring blocks into more parts of your site so that editing becomes easier and more expressive, and so on. So full site editing right now encompasses adding a ton of new blocks. 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If you wanted to check out full site editing the site editor experience as it is now, you would just have to make sure you had the Gutenberg plugin on your site. Right?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matías: Yes, correct.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Josepha:&nbsp; So a couple of the questions related to this are how exactly do I enable it on my site? And what is the easiest and safest way to try this on my site? And I think the answer is, is right in there. It&#8217;s in the Gutenberg plugin. And so if you have that plugin, you don&#8217;t need the testing plugin or anything else to make that work, right?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matías [3:51]:&nbsp; No, you like, you might need to install a theme like Twenty Twenty One blocks that unlock some of these new interfaces that we just talked about. Like other of these pieces are available for anything. 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But for example, we also have a few concurrent projects around the widget screen and the navigation screen that are meant to bring blocks into existing interfaces. So again, the theme doesn&#8217;t need to change, and a lot of care is being put into making this more like you&#8217;re unlocking new features, and nothing really breaks or falls apart.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Josepha [12:23]: This update, like all the other updates, should have minimal, minimal impact on what you have to actively fix on your site. Every once in a while, a bug is gonna get by. We can&#8217;t say that we&#8217;re 100% perfect with not breaking things. But also, we always and I and I know that we&#8217;re planning on this for our remaining releases for the rest of the year. At the very least, I can&#8217;t imagine we&#8217;d ever change it. But after every major release, we always make a plan to have a minor release within the next one or two weeks. Because we know that a broken thing on a site is really incredibly impactful, even if you&#8217;re only 1% of the sites that had that happen to it. And so I think that&#8217;s true in this case, too. And getting that feedback back from all of the people who are actually using WordPress is the thing that makes us be able to kind of move quickly when we do see those problems.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the questions that we have been getting is, “can I see a live preview without saving the changes that I made?” When I got this question, I didn&#8217;t actually understand it. And so I went and looked at a site without the Gutenberg plugin on it, and then a site with the Gutenberg plugin on it. And of course, on sites without Gutenberg, without the block editor, without full site editing, when you are looking to preview, you have the option to open up your preview in a new window. And you don&#8217;t have that with Gutenberg because it&#8217;s supposed to be a true WYSIWYG editor. A true what you see is what you get, editor. I think that the answer to this is, yes, you can see a live preview without actually saving the changes on the front end of your site. But you don&#8217;t actually have to reload anything. You don&#8217;t have to open it up in a new window. You don&#8217;t have to, like, actively click “please show me a preview” because what you see in your editing screen should be what you see at the end of your app as an end-user.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matías [14:28]: Yeah, that&#8217;s the sort of the main gist to it. Yes, the site editor is built so that it always reflects the front end as truly as possible, so that&#8217;s one layer. Also, the preview tools should allow you to see in different devices like mobile breakpoints, and I don&#8217;t know if they will have breakpoints and stuff like that. There are a lot of things in the current interface that is just not enabled. There are some challenges in the sidebar. 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Changes like that changes to your workflow can be really hard to get your mind around, especially if part of that existing workflow was there to create some confidence in what you&#8217;re seeing with your users. And so I understand. Now that I&#8217;ve researched that question a bit, I see where that&#8217;s coming from. Based on existing workflows and existing patterns that we have for ourselves in WordPress, will we need to have a theme to use the full site editor?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matías [16:33]: I think we&#8217;ve already covered some of these. And again, they are tools that can work on any existing theme. 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WordPress has been democratizing publishing for a while; this is another step into allowing themes to get more customization tools and more control over their site if they want to. I think the recent call for testing has focused on the 404 page, for example. That&#8217;s something that forever has been locked away from users. And it&#8217;s also something that, as a theme developer, and I used to develop themes a long time ago, that was one of the things where you decide what sort of approach you take for the 404 page. Maybe sometimes you want to have something more whimsical. Sometimes you need something more serious. And committing to one when you can have such a diverse and broad user base can be challenging. With these, it becomes as easy as offering a few different patterns for that template. Then the user will always be able to change the copy and modify something. So again, it opens up a lot of these things that used to be locked down. However, from a theme perspective, I think this doesn&#8217;t reduce the theme at all. If anything, it allows the theme to focus less on coding and functions and more on design expression and aesthetics. I don&#8217;t think that would ever be exhausted. That will always remain as diverse as humans are interacting with WordPress. And so it&#8217;s not that I don&#8217;t see it&#8217;s just as like, typographic and block styles. How do you express a template, how do you express the structure, what choices you quote, what choices you make as a theme builder? And of course, there are many degrees of control there. Because a site maintainer may not want the 404 template to be editable, that sort of control will always be present.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Josepha [19:38]: Yeah. And really fast. I have to add a caveat to a thing that you said in there. For anyone who&#8217;s listening keenly, you may have heard Matías say that the users can update any of the content there &#8211; any of the copy. In this context, we&#8217;re talking about users as in the people who are maintaining the site, not people who are visiting your site. Visitors to your site will not be able to change any copy on your page unless you&#8217;ve done something very interesting with your WordPress site, which is also fine if that&#8217;s what you prefer to do. By default, your visitors can&#8217;t change everything on your website, which is good news, frankly.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I&#8217;ve got one logistics question, which I&#8217;m happy to take. And then one is kind of a big picture question that I also got from Twitter. “What about the classic editor block; what is going to happen to that? And when will we know?” So ages and ages ago, before COVID? I think so. Probably maybe a couple of years ago, Matt said that the classic editor plugin would be supported through the end of 2021. And that is still the case; there will be active support on that through the end of 2021. After that, it will not be actively supported anymore. It won&#8217;t be removed from any place that you can get access to right now. In a “this is the end of its lifecycle” sort of way, we just won&#8217;t have anyone who is currently committed to maintaining that plugin anymore. So that&#8217;s what&#8217;s happening at the end of the year. And yeah, at the end of 2021. The big question that we have is, “why is full site editing being so rushed?” I think this is a bit of a loaded question.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matías [21:32]: Yeah, I think I think it&#8217;s still a fair question, though. I think we&#8217;re dealing with two things here. And one is ensuring that we release things in the best state possible. And also, some of the urgency is to offer tools that we know that people lack right now and that could really benefit from. Making that determination is very tricky. The full site editing project has been in the works for the last couple of years. If we count the initial phase of Gutenberg, that&#8217;s four to five years. We&#8217;ve been doing many calls for testing, which I think have been super useful to catch issues and reflect as a community on where things are going; how do we integrate with these? How do we use it? What are the shortcomings? What do we need to do? Based on all of these, we&#8217;ll continue to make decisions on when things become ready. We&#8217;re not committed to releasing something that&#8217;s not in a good state. And I think we will always be very careful about that. There are these two competing senses of the urgency &#8211; of getting some of these tools out, and because it also benefits from the feedback loops. I always say that, in many ways, the initial phase of Gutenberg, to me, is not finished. We took the initial two years to do the 5.0 release, the initial block editor, and so on. But, it&#8217;s still being improved at a very fast pace, among all the recent major releases improvements to the editor were included; that will continue to be the case. In many ways, phase one is not finished. And the moment we choose to release some of these tools or editing tools, it won&#8217;t be finished either. They will need to continue to grow, mature, and incorporate a lot of the feedback. Even the things that the ecosystem is building around. I&#8217;ve seen a few themes already that are incorporating a blank canvas template so that you can use them in some pages and take over and do everything with blocks. So even the community and ecosystem as a whole is also sort of paving the way for what needs to come.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Josepha [24:06]: I think from my perspective, and of course, I&#8217;m on the people side of things, the communication side of things, the logistics side of things; I have a frequently a very different view from what a lot of other folks are seeing. And so from my side of things, I have to say, I&#8217;m communicating about this change in a really broad way, which has not been happening since 2019 when we started the work. We&#8217;ve been communicating broadly with the WordPress community, but not with everybody who uses WordPress. So, I think that for a lot of people, this looks like a project that we started really actively working on in the last six months or so. And now we&#8217;re just racing toward a finish line. I think that there&#8217;s, there&#8217;s not been a lot of awareness of everything that&#8217;s gone into it. And so, on the one hand, it feels a little less rushed to me knowing the full length of the history on this. But also, as you said, I really think that this gets a bunch of tools to people who otherwise have not been able to accomplish these things in WordPress or otherwise. I am so anxious to get something to people who really can benefit from this change the most. And it&#8217;s the nature of the open source, right that like, one, as long as you have users, you&#8217;re going to have stuff you have to fix in your software. So we&#8217;re never really, really going to be done with this; there&#8217;s not going to be like a done point of WordPress. And the second thing is, I think it&#8217;s generally true that you don&#8217;t really start getting full user feedback until after you have launched your major release. I think that we see that a lot in open source software; you can bring in as many people as you think you can in your user tests heading up to it. And in your accessibility tests. And, in general, quality assurance tests. You can bring in a lot of people and still not have gotten the full understanding of the various niche use cases that your users will bring to you. Because at this point, we&#8217;re like 40% of the web. And that means that we&#8217;re serving this majority collection of increasingly minority voices and niche voices in the space. And so, a little bit I feel a sense of urgency; I feel a bit of anxiousness about trying to get this out there for one, to get the tools in the hands of the people who can benefit the most from them, but also so that we can start really getting the full stress test of this software out and get that feedback in so that we can really build something responsive to what our users need our long tail, “anyone who ever uses WordPress ever,” definition of users. And so, that&#8217;s why I feel a sense of urgency around it. Even though you know, as I said, you and I have been working on this for like five years, and you&#8217;ve been working on it for a decade or something. I actually don&#8217;t know how long it&#8217;s been worked on.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matías [27:35]: Now that makes me feel a bit old.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Josepha [27:40]: Nobody makes Matías feel old. He is a lovely, wonderful colleague. Sorry, Matías, If I made you feel old.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matías [27:46]: No, that&#8217;s totally fine. I also want to add that full site editing is not like a single toggle that&#8217;s going to drop into a major release. So I think that&#8217;s important to consider, I think this entire year is going to see a lot of these tools being, and sometimes the sort of the end-user is not the, again, the site maintainer. Still, you can also be the theme developer; I think there are many tools that would be empowering for theme developers to use. Again, we mentioned there are like five to ten themes, block themes right now. That needs to grow a lot, and that only grows through these sorts of feedback loops. And the theme community pushing things forward and seeing where things can lead to. I&#8217;m very excited about the pattern directory integration because I think that can also combine with blog themes in very powerful ways. Imagine if, I don&#8217;t know many of these patterns that are very common on the web and very needed, that if we can refine them together with a second community and make them available across themes, you can combine a header from one theme with a content of another; all these sorts of mixtures could happen. All of this needs exploration, the creativity of the entire community, and so on. In that sense, getting all these tools, even if it doesn&#8217;t immediately change anything for like the site itself, starts to unlock a lot of things.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Josepha [29:27]: I&#8217;m going to take a bit of your answer from there and tie it all the way back to your first answer that we had when you joined me today. And say, I think you&#8217;re absolutely right. We have a set of users in our theme authors and our plugin developers as well that we desperately need to get looking at this set of tools. I hope that what we are shipping in the first iteration of this serves as an opportunity for all of those theme authors and agency owners, plugin authors, WordPress site configurers freelancers. Like, I really hope that this puts it into a really accessible, easy-to-access space for them so that they can do those experiments based on what they know their users need the most. They are the group that has the closest access to site maintainers. And what they need compared to, for instance, me or a potential you like we have a lot of information, you and I, we do a lot of tests, we have a strong sense of what is needed at the moment, but we don&#8217;t have as a close connection that our theme and agency and plugin folks all have. And so that&#8217;s another part of why I&#8217;m so excited to get this out in the current iteration of it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Josepha [31:04]: That was a lot of questions in a little bit of time. This is going to be officially my longest WordPress briefing. 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