Need SEO tips and plugins for wordpress website

Tip 1 - Try All in One SEO Pack Plugin for Wordpress

This is another great SEO plugin which allows you to add meta tags, set canonical urls, integrate analytics and create automatic sitemaps. It works just fine for beginners and pros because it works straight after install and allows for further tweaking to suit your own purposes.

Tip 2 - Make sure the images you use have appropriate titles and alternate texts

This is often overlooked by people and is an important step. All the images you use on your wordpress site should have appropriate titles and alt texts.

Title: This can be the title of your article or post or the name of the file. Make sure it has keywords that go with your post and will be searched for.

Alt text: This is the description of the image, for instance, if you are uploading an image of a good breakfast post, and the image has an egg, the alt text should say 'boiled/fried egg'. It basically helps the search engine make sense of what the image is actually displaying.

Tip 3 - Only Show Excerpt on Listing Pages

Some webmasters do not care about this but avoid displaying complete content on the listing pages. Just show an excerpt and place a link "Read more" that shall take the visitor to the detail page of your blog post where they can read the complete story or else your site may get a penalty known as Blogitist. (to read about this search within Google Product Forum under crawling and indexing section, written by Autocrat).

In this scenario your listing pages start ranking more compared to the detail page due to fast updates.

Tip 4 - WordPress SEO by Yoast

This plugin can help you with all the basic seo stuff required to run a blog or a website. Moreover you can generate XML sitemap for submitting it to Google Webmaster with just one click.

To read the detail for setup of the plugin you can refer to the developers site: https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/

Tip 5 - Try keeping your Tag pages noindex

Mostly tag pages are nothing but just listing pages which doesn't give value to the consumer and some more Google also doesn't find such pages good. Therefore, try keeping them noindex but follow.

Tip 6 - Aaron Baldassare: Write as if Search Engines Don't Exist

Beginner best practices for WordPress SEO.

The best advice I've heard for dealing with search engines is from Brian Clark: "write as if search engines don't exist." It's true. Search engines don't like being pandered to, and most people greatly overestimate the importance of SEO tactics in general.

Remember, search engines are in business to please searchers first, advertisers second, and website owners a distant last. So don't expect Google to hand you a blank check.

That said, a little bit of SEO is worth it, if you know where to focus your time. 

1. Having an online authority vouch for your content by promoting it to their audience pretty much dwarfs every other SEO strategy you might apply.

2. All you need to do when starting out is take a quick glance at URL, Title and Metadescription before you publish to make sure each clearly communicates what your post is about. If you forget, no big deal.

3. Install and use WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin, for free, and be done with it. Think of it as practice for writing adwords advertisements for your content.

To get an indepth tutorial on the WordPress SEO plugin and best practices for WordPress beginners, check the link below.