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Install and activate Yoast SEO

Install and activate Yoast SEO - WordPress Tutorial

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Install and activate Yoast SEO

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- [Instructor] Yoast SEO is in the top 10 active plugins on wordpress.org. Right now it's the second-most downloaded plugin used on more than 5 million sites. And it's the most popular SEO plugin in the WordPress space. They pioneered a lot of the features that are now standard in other SEO plugins. They're also experts in SEO. They have an amazing blog that covers every aspect of SEO and a ton of related topics like user experience, analytics, content creation, and more. They offer classes, certifications and their newsletter is also really useful. We'll be using their Yoast SEO plugin because it has every feature you need to get started and it's very extensible. If you have very specific needs like eCommerce, videos or local SEO, they have extensions to solve those specific challenges. They also have a lot of SEO-adjacent features built into their plug-in, like site maps. This keeps your site lean since you don't have…

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