There are two (2) main benefits from deploying table of content on your site.
Customer Engagement
If you have long articles, unless it really engaging, your visitors might get bored and turn away from the post. Worst scenario, the customer may leave your site instantly.
One of ways to keep them wanting to read the content, partly or wholly, is to have a Table of Content on top of your long articles.
Another scenario where you need to have Table of Content is when you are offering training or tutorials on your site. It's not only for easy navigation, but your visitors can scan over the content of the article by looking at the indexes in the table.
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SEO Strategies
Another benefit of having Table of Content on your post/pages is to let Google crawls it and understand the content of the articles. With the content structure that you need to deploy in the creation of the Table of Content, it will benefit you in terms of Google indexing and ranking.
So, without further a due, let's start.
In the next page, we are going through the details how to create the Table of Content for your post / pages.