Giving Yourself the Best Chance of Success

The first thing that I recommend when getting started is to ensure that you have a good, mobile friendly WordPress theme that you are happy working with. The look and feel of your website is an essential part of building trust with your site visitors. Taking a little time to make your site look good, goes a long way.

Try to find a WordPress theme that fits your niche, looks good on a desktop computer as well as a mobile device. It’s essential that we cater for both desktop and mobile users, since we need as much traffic as possible.

If you are just starting out, I would suggest choosing a standard WordPress theme with a clean, white background.

Fancy looking themes with flashy graphics might look good, but they often run much slower than a more basic theme. Page Speed is something that Google takes into consideration when raking your site. The faster your site loads, the more love Google will give you.

You can learn how I increased the speed of my blog here.

Once you have a good framework in place and you are happy with the way that your blog looks, you need to create content.

Content is what will eventually drive lots of traffic and sales to your website. So getting it right is essential.

Fortunately, we can create keyword targeted content very quickly using just two online tools.

Let's create a keyword targeted post...

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JKaobata1 Premium
Can I used the Yoast and Jaaxy tools at the same website?
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merlynmac Premium
Toast is for SEO and Jaaxy is for keyword research and doesn't integrate with your site directly so, yes.
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merlynmac Premium
What you don't want to do is have more than one SEO plugin running at the same time on your site.
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Andrew-74 Premium
Yes, you can run both plugins on the same site. Yoast is the only SEO plugin that you will ever need. Some people use an alternative called All In One SEO, but I prefer Yoast as it does the job very well. As Merlynmac says, you don't want any more than one SEO plugin running as once though.
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laparra1 Premium
Good Morning Andrew,

Nice lesson. As I am trying to keep the number of Plugins down I have not put Yoast SEO, perhaps I should try that one and see what they say. As I understand it takes you by the hand while writing your post. I think I will have to try this plugin to see what they say about my writing style etc. Thanks for the tip.

Have a nice Sunday, Taetske
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Andrew-74 Premium
Thank you Taetske! Yeah, its not easy to keep the amount of plugins down. I went from around 15, down to 7, just so that I could keep my site running fast. How it will affect my site remains to be seen. But from what I understand, speed is a big deal to Google these days, so it pays to try and get things running as well as they can.

Hope you enjoy your Sunday too Taetske!

Let me know how you progress,

Regards,

Andrew
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mybiz4u Premium
Thnx for thr recap A,
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Andrew-74 Premium
No problem! Thanks for the comment.

Andrew
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