Writing WP Posts: A Checklist

How do you make the most out of your WP website? WordPress developers in Sydney would suggest technicalities such as greater traffic, SEO, optimisation, loading speeds and so on. Yes, all of these are absolutely vital and contribute immensely to the success of your website. Your chosen WordPress developer in Sydney can take care of them, and they’d do it much better than you. So you don’t have to worry about the technical aspects of your WP site.

However, what you need to focus on is the content of your posts; they completely fall in your domain. Quality does matter, but there are a couple of other things that you need to ensure. Let’s take a look.

Writing the WP post

 

When writing the post, focus on a keyword and target it in the content that you come up with. But don’t stuff the keyword. The flow should be natural, something that you would already be aware of. 

 

Checking the Page Analysis

 

Okay great, you have written the post, but don’t just publish it yet. Check if it has been properly optimised for Google and other search engines. You’ll need the SEO by Yoast plugin for this, which your WordPress developer in Sydney can install for you. Once you have the plugin, go to the Page Analysis tab after finishing your posts and view details. You’ll know a lot of useful things such as” 

• Whether you have used keywords in the page URL, first para and meta description
• The keyword density, and if it’s fine
• If you have put in enough links
• If the images contain the keyword or not

Use the feedback to improve your post, check Page Analysis again, and then post.

Writing WP Posts: A Checklist Emphasising key phrases

Generally, no one reads the whole blog post and just quickly skim through the headings and a couple of paragraphs. Make your copy more interesting by adding several sub-headers, and yes, bulleted lists are definitely more preferable. You can even bold important information so that your readers don’t miss it.

Ensuring catchy headlines 

Generally, you decide the headline before you write the content, but after completing the post, go back to the heading again. Ensure that it is enticing and has been properly optimised.

 

Adding tags

Add relevant tags to your post towards the end, but don’t add too many of them, and make sure that you have included only the relevant ones. 

 

Checking links

When checking links, keep the following points in minds:

• The links work
• The links behave in an expected way 
   

You would have already gotten the first point, but what do we mean by the second? Your link should either open up in a new tab or on the same page depending on the context and placement. So, ensure that the links acts as you want them to.

Adding images and attributions

Don’t unnecessarily jumble up your post with images if they aren’t needed. Try to use the keyword in image name, add relevant attributions, and set a featured image to be used for the thumbnail.