Installing the Yoast SEO Plugin

For WordPress site owners (skip this if you’re on another platform).

The Yoast SEO Plugin is critical for optimizing your site as:

• It makes it very easy to set up Google Search Console
• It allows you to customize your meta page titles and descriptions which affect your rankings and traffic
• It automatically creates XML sitemaps to help search engines better find your pages
• It allows you give Google extra information through Schema.

If you already are comfortable installing plugins on your WordPress site there’s no need to watch the video below – just go install it.

Otherwise, check out the quick (1 minute and 32 seconds) video below!