Achieve Formula-1 Performance
Supercharge your SEO. Like an F-1 race car in search results. - WordPressively v0.2
In the Pits - Setup & Tuning
Yes, this whole newsletter is a race car analogy. Zoom zoom.
To achieve your Grand Prix success, and claim the title of that coveted first search result on Google is going to take some hard work and dedication. Winning the Search Engine Optimization Grand Prix doesn’t happen overnight, or even in a single race. The hard truth is, for some keywords it may not happen at all if competition is just to fierce.
But, fear not! Just like a great Formula-1 team, setup and preparations to the race car (your website) are critical to helping you win this long-term SEO endurance race (thousands of laps).
When talking about SEO, the go-to plugin is WordPress SEO by Yoast. It’s a fantastic plugin and it takes care of a lot of low-hanging SEO fruit for you out of the box. No SEO review would be complete without mentioning Yoast and if you’re running a simple Blog with a pretty stock WordPress setup then Yoast is a great overall choice.
However, that’s not the plugin we want for our finely tuned high-performance setup.
Maybe you’re looking for more? Maybe you want better granular control over SEO settings or you’ve used Yoast in the past and now you want something better.
Since we’re WordPressively, we’re going to buck the system and not recommend using Yoast (*gasp* I know...) for this high-performance build. This approach breaks the some of the main silos inside S.E.O. up and then we use a specific plugin to handle each silo, rather than a more “all-in-one-pit-stop” S.E.O. plugin / setup.
I know what you’re thinking - “seriously, more plugins…” - not less plugins? Isn’t that going to slow down my website overall? It might, but thankfully a lot of these plugin’s main functionality is really only in the admin area of your website, so it shouldn’t affect the speed in which your website itself is displayed.
Formula-1 Aftermarket Parts - The Plugins
Yoast[wordpress/freemium] / SmartCrawl[wpmu/paid]
WP Fastest Cache[wordpress/free] / W3 Total Cache[wordpress/freemium]
Redirection[wordpress/free]
Wincher Rank Tracker[wordpress/free]
Imageify[wordpress/freemium] / WP Smush Pro[wpmu/paid]
Hummingbird[wpmu/paid]
Analytify[wordpress/freemium]
Noteworthy Mentions:
And that is how you tune your WordPress website into a high-performance, Formula-1 race… website? Yeah! Awesome.
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