How to Do SEO To Optimize Categories & Tags – WordPress SEO

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We know internet world, everyday millions of new pages added and crawled by search engines to show relevant search results on search engine results page. To survive in this competition and be in top 10 list in search engine results page, everybody is looking for WordPress SEO Tips. Here I would cover the best SEO tips that you might have not tried if you are newbie.  Most of the peoples are trying to optimize their posts for SEO. However you can optimize your categories and tag pages from your WordPress to get your WordPress categories stands in top ten in search results.

Here is the sample screenshot taken from search engine result page. I searched for keyword Facebook on Google. I saw the results from Wikipedia, Google play store were appears but after that mashable blog’s Facebook category has also appeared. Nodoubt it’s popular blog and receives millions of impressions a day. But thing is that appearing category page on SERP.

Mashable Facebook Category

 

Here is how you can optimize your category archives and tags archives to get appeared on Search Engine Results Page. Whenever you create new category or tag in WordPress from your WordPress dasboard > Posts > categories/tags option, it would show you few details to describe categories or tags. You can add name of new categories or tags with SEO slugs.

Adding New Category on WordPress

Adding categories or tags descriptions on WordPress

If you want to make new category under parent category, you can choose parent option and write description about your categories/tags. That’s it. But if you are using SEO by Yoast WordPress plugin, there is extra options for you to add meta keywords and meta descriptions on your categories or tag archives. To open that extra SEO option, you need to edit the category and then you will see extra WordPress SEO Settings..

Advanced Meta Descriptions and Meta Keyword SEO option for SEO by Yoast

Advanced Meta Descriptions and Meta Keyword SEO option for SEO by Yoast

I created this test category specially for better explanation. You would see that advanced Yoast WordPress SEO Setting while editing tags or category pages.Try to add your preferred SEO titles, SEO descriptions that will be used for meta descriptions on archive pages. Add your meta keywords for the category or tag archives pages & save it.

Try to implement this SEO settings for your category and tag pages to get more organic traffics from search engines and earn more money from your blog.

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