1. AWDD209: Blogging for Business ~ WordPress CMS (Practicum)
  2. Assignments
  3. Unit 10: WordPress SEO Plug-ins

Unit 10: WordPress SEO Plug-ins

Introduction:

As mentioned in Unit 9, WordPress’ native SEO abilities can be enhanced with the addition of plug-ins. There are many SEO plug-ins available with various ratings and reviews. Here is a link to the 6 Best WordPress SEO Plug-ins for 2023 so you can read up on this.

There is also a plug-in to enhance every aspect of WordPress. Feel free to visit
hostinger.com to read about the 40+ Best WordPress plug-ins in 2023 and feel free to experiment with any number of them. Although there are lots of plug-ins available, be sure to attend to installing those you are required to. These are listed in the Graded Assignments section below.

How to Choose a WordPress SEO Plug-in

A good SEO plug-in should have these qualities:

  • Clean and efficient code with multiple SEO features
  • Extensive documentation and good customer support with regular updates and compatibility

This video walks you through the All in one SEO pack to demonstrate some of its more important features and settings.

Graded Assignments

Unit 10

  1. Install these plug-ins:
    1. The All in One SEO Pack, which easily improves SEO ranking and increases web traffic.
    2. The wp-paginate plug-in, which is a simple and flexible pagination plug-in and provides users with better navigation on your WordPress site.
    3. Smush, which optimizes and compresses images, so that your WordPress pages load faster.
  2. Log in to Moodle and post your blog link with username and password.
  3. I will log in to the admin area of your blog to assess how well you have configured your plug-in settings. If applicable, please provide front-end links to demonstrate how the plug-in is being utilized there.