SEO Crash Course for WordPress Users

This episode deals with the topic of what you need robots.txt for, how to create and properly use it specifically on a WordPress site. Plus you’ll learn how to update your robots.txt file any time you wish without messing around with any code.

You’ll get to know what Google Analytics is, what you need it for and what EXACTLY kind of features exactly you should focus on. What’s more, you’ll learn what plugin you need to install in order to keep track of basic WordPress site stats, such as daily visits, referrers, top pages, links clicked and stuff like that.

In this video, you’ll learn how to add your site to Google Webmaster Tools so that you can use its features. Plus you’ll get to know how to find your way around in the interface of the irreplaceable SEO service from Google.

You’ll understand what the file is used for and how to make it work at its best with no extra hassle. You’ll be able to manage the file right from the comfort of your WordPress dashboard.

This video coaches you through the process of doing keyword research in the best way possible. You’ll be able to apply the skills for optimizing both your WordPress posts and pages.

You’ll learn how to use Google Keyword Planner for keyword research and generating lucrative keyword ideas for your WordPress posts.

This video explains how to write your copy the smart way with synonyms rather than just stuffing it with keywords. It makes your content more engaging for your site visitors and trustworthy for search engines.

In this episode of the course, you’ll get the idea about the difference between on-page and off-page SEO. Also, you’ll learn about their main elements.

This video explains which elements of a page should contain your keyword so that you get the biggest bang for your money. You’ll never double it any more because you’ll just know for sure.

You’ll learn why you need to optimize images and how to do it both with WordPress dashboard and Photoshop. You’ll also get to know how to choose the right image file format for different cases.

You’ll get to know a few really neat and easy-to-follow tips that will considerably bump up your Google rankings. It’s all about adding the right things to your copy.

This episode walks you through optimizing your video content for YouTube.com so that it drives way more people right to your site. You’ll be able to make customers leave YouTube and go to your site either while watching your video or right after it.

You’ll learn how to properly set up your permalinks structure so that it’s both SEO and user friendly. It’s a must-do thing in our day and age.

Sounds spooky? In fact, you’ll learn the easy way of adding Schema.org markup to your WordPress site. Your snippet will stand out of the crowd and catch the eye of potential customers.

Update as of Feb 13, 2014: Google can penalize your WordPress blog (or any other type of blog for that matter) if you don't use rich snippets properly. Be sure to use this article on the topic.

You’ll learn how to do redirections without messing around with any code so that you can apply them any minute you need to.

You’ll become able to efficiently do local SEO so that you can promote either your brick and mortar or online store to the local neighborhood.

It’s just a round-up of all the to-the-point and valuable knowledge, tips and tricks that you just learned with SEO Crash Course for WordPress Users. Now it’s time to rock out with your site out.

This lecture shows you how to configure a plugin that allows you to add a neat table in WordPress (reading an external .csv file support).

Wordpress SEO Post Optimizer makes it possible to perform fast on-page SEO so that you can concentrate on actual content creation because all the heavy-lifting is done for you under the hood. You can just add your keywords and see at a glance what else you need to do to get the biggest bang for your buck when it comes to optimizing your WordPress posts or pages.

In this video, you will get to know how to select the best keyword for your content with the help of Ahrefs.com (Keyword Explorer to be more specific). 

You may need to delete duplicate domains when you do competitor research and your competitors have backlinks from the same domains or the same competitor has multiple backlinks from the same domain. This article will walk you through the whole process step-by-step so that you get a list of backlinks (one link per unique domain).