How To Setup Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin Configuration
Yoast WordPress SEO plugin configuration: When we talk about SEO in WordPress there are two plugins comes in mind, All in One SEO pack and Yoast SEO WordPress plugin. But the Yoast SEO WordPress plugin is the most popular and most used plugin these days.
Only a few bloggers know how to set up Yoast SEO WordPress plugin, not everyone is aware of it. That’s why in this article I will tell you the complete guide on how to setup Yoast WordPress SEO plugin configuration step by step with the help of screenshots. So that you can easily do these setting in your blog or website also.
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For the SEO in a WordPress site, SEO plugin by Yoast is the best of all. If you haven’t used this plugin before for WordPress SEO then, I will suggest you install it and try once. You will definitely love it in terms of SEO.
Yoast SEO plugin provides many interesting and useful features to fulfill the SEO needs of our blog. And the best thing about SEO by Yoast is that it is very easy to install and activate all the SEO settings. A new user can easily set up their WordPress blog in 5 minutes with all SEO friendly features.
Features Provided By Yoast SEO WordPress Plugin for SEO
Before getting started, it is necessary to know what are the essential features which Yoast SEO WordPress plugins provide us for the improvement of SEO of our blog. Following are the features of the Yoast SEO plugin:
- Website name and company personal details.
- Submit & Verify Site to Google, Bing, and Yahoo.
- Advance Security.
- Pages Advanced Settings.
- On-Page Integration Daily (New Feature)
- The title, Meta Settings and Title Separator
- Readability Analysis or keyword analysis.
- Site Home Page Title and Meta Description.
- meta Control like Post Types, Taxonomies, Archives and others.
- Support Facebook Graph and Twitter Card.
- Add Google Authorship for Single Author.
- Submit Your All Social Media Profile with Site.
- Generate XML Sitemap Automatically.
- Manage User Sitemap and Excluded Posts.
- Hide Date form Search Engine Snippets.
- Breadcrumbs Settings.
- Confirm Your Site with Pinterest.
- Advanced Permalink Control.
- RSS Feed Footer Plugin Setting.
- Import Setting form Other SEO Plugin.
- Edit Robots.txt file and .htaccess Folder.
Now, you can see that how much features does the SEOYoast WordPress plugin provides you free of cost. That’s why Yoast WordPress SEO plugin in so much popular among the bloggers. So, let’s get started in detail without further ado.
If you are facing any problem during setup you can watch these video tutorial given below:-
Complete Setup & Configuration Guide for WordPress Yoast Plugin Users:
Here everything is shown with the help of screenshots so follow the screenshots and steps to do the same Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin full configuration.
First of all, what you have to do is install the Yoast SEO plugin in WordPress. After that on your left sidebar there is an SEO option click on that and follow the instructions given below:
1. DASHBOARD
2. FEATURES
- SEO analysis: Enable
- Readability analysis: Disable
- Cornerstone content: Disable
- Text link counter: Disable
- XML Sitemap: Enable
- Ryte integration: Disable
- Admin bar menu: Disable
- Security: no advanced settings for authors: Enable
3. Webmaster tools
Here you have to add Google, Yahoo and Bing webmaster tools verification code. The screenshot is given below:
SEARCH APPEARANCE- YOAST SEO1. General
- Force rewrite titles: Enable it if you have duplicate site name on your blog otherwise leave it.
- Title Separator:
- Title: Title of your website or blog.
- Meta Description: A short description of 2 or 3 line on your blog.
- Company or Person:
- Company name: Company or person name
- Company logo: Logo of your company or website.
2. Content Type
This is the very important Yoast SEO plugin setting. Here you will set how your posts, pages, and media files show in the search engine.
- Show posts in search results: YES
- Post Title template: %%title%% set like this.
- Post Meta description template: Leave blank Meta description template box
- Date in Snippet preview: If you want to show date in search result then click on show.
- Yoast SEO Meta Box: Enable for Yaost analysis
- Show page in search results: YES
- Page Title template: Add %%title%% in the page title.
- Page Meta description template: Add %%excerpt%% this or leave blank. Your choice
Below is the Yoast basic Variable you can choose or set up according to your content type.
3. Media
When you upload an image in your WordPress blog at that time, WordPress automatically creates its attached URL which is not useful for you. So for that enable this feature it will redirect your image with the post URL.
4. Taxonomies
- Categories: YES
- Tags and Formats: NO
- Categories URLs: If you use the category like “example.com/category/categoryname/” then select keep and if you use “example.com/categoryname/ URL” then, select remove.
5. Archives
Permanently disable date archive and author archive because it creates the problem of duplicate content.
6. Breadcrumbs
7. RSS
No need to touch anything.
SEARCH CONSOLE-YOAST SEO
Yoast SEO plugin also gives you feature to connect google webmaster directly through the Plugin and, it also helps in fixing you crawl errors right from the plugin without visiting google webmaster.
For this, you have to click on Reauthenticate with Google in the setting option. After that Google asks your permission to connect webmaster with Yoast SEO plugin and, you have to click on allow button. After getting authentication you can fix desktop, smartphones, and others crawlers directly from here.
- Get google authorization code: By clicking here you will get permission from google
- Now add the code here which you get from Yoast SEO plugin
- Finally, click on Authenticate.
Accounts:
This feature of Yoast SEO allows you to show your social media profiles to you, visitors. To show them you can follow the screenshot given below: 2. Facebook
3. Twitter
4. Pinterest
5. Google+
TOOLS:
Here you will find 3 tools. These 3 features of Yoast SEO plugin are very good for you if you about them. With these features, you can change your title or descriptions of your multiple pages and posts in one click without reaching each post and page individually.
- Bulk Editor: Here you can edit your multiple posts and pages in one click.
- File Editor: With this, you can edit the robots.txt and .htaccess file of your blog.
- Import and Export: With this, you can download your plugin settings or also you can import or export your setting of the Yoast SEO plugin.
Now you are ready to go with all SEO setting of Yoast SEO WordPress plugin. This is the full beginner guide step by step to install the Yoast SEO plugin.
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