5. Add a Meta Description to Your Post

A Meta description is a summary of your blog post that is 160 characters or less. It appears below the title of your blog post in search results. This allows Google to know what your post is about so people can click on it.

If you’re a WordPress user, you can use the free Yoast SEO plugin to optimize your Meta description. It’s also fun and easy to use and keeps you on track with SEO and readability, well worth using. (I wouldn’t be without my free Yoast and Grammarly and I used to teach English, both are free and will help you to polish your writing style and teach you about good SEO.)

6. Optimize Your Site for Mobile Usability

Google will penalize websites that aren't mobile-friendly, as they don’t offer a great user experience. Mobile devices account for the majority of website traffic today. Make sure your website is mobile-friendly, and if you're not sure, check using your Google Search Console. Sometimes you only need to have fewer plugins or a simpler theme (Astra free WordPress theme loads very fast and you can customize it too.)

Check your loading speed using the details tab next to where you click to load your website.

Once you are on the website details page scroll down to Google Pagespeed Insights, here you will see both Desktop and Mobile loading speeds for every article that you have written. Click on Refresh and see how fast that page is loading today!

If it is below 85 and not green for Mobile loading go into the actual article from your website dashboard and edit it to see if making the pictures smaller speeds uploading. You can check this way until you find a solution. (Check that you have deleted any extra plugins or consider changing themes.)