Mobile SEO guide in 2023 – How to Optimize Your Website for Mobile SEO

Last Updated on December 31, 2022 By Arsalan Rauf

In this post, I shall share with you everything you need to know about mobile SEO in 2021.

I shall also tell you why mobile optimization is necessary now?

In addition, I will also help you to ready your website for Google’s mobile first algorithm.

Mobile SEO guide in 2023 – The Definitive Guide

CHAPTER 1: Mobile Optimization 101

In this chapter I’ll help you to learn the basics.

So if your site is not mobile optimized or you are not sure, this chapter will move you to the right track.

In upcoming chapters, you will learn advanced strategies and techniques.

What Is Mobile SEO?

Mobile SEO stands for the practice of optimizing your website for users on tablets and smartphones or android. It also refers to make your site resources accessible to search engine spiders.

Why Is Mobile SEO Important?

In short: the number of mobile searches is increasing day by day.

In fact, 58% of all searches in Google are now done from a mobile device.

This trend is growing rapidly. According to statistics of Google, mobile has 27.8 billion more queries than desktop.

So the mobile is the future of SEO. This is the reason why Google and its algorithm are focussing on mobile search.

SEO in 2019: The Definitive Guide

Is “SEO” Now About Optimizing for “Mobile SEO”?

Yes, if you want to optimize your site for Google.

Today, 95% of searches are from the search engine of Google.

Google will retain this level of dominance by twisting their algorithm.

So you need to optimize your site for mobile users first.

Firstly, Google launched its Mobile-Friendly Update (which many people called “Mobilegeddon”).

This update affected those sites which were not mobile friendly for android or smartphones.

If your target audience does not search using their smartphones, this update was not a big deal for you.

Unless Google made every search a mobile search by implementing its Mobile First algorithm.

What Is Google’s Mobile-First Index?

Google Mobile first index will rank the search results according to the mobile version of the page. It occurs even if you are searching from a desktop as well.

Before this update, Google ran two indexes side-by-side: desktop version and mobile version.

If someone is searching from an iPhone or android, Google will show them results from mobile index. If someone searches on a desktop, he will get desktop results.

Today, it does not matter what device you use, Google will show you the results from mobile index.

I shall discuss more about optimization for mobile SEO in chapter 3, 4 and 5.

Is Google’s Mobile-First Index a Big Deal?

It depends.

If your site is optimized for mobile, you are good to go.

If your site….

Loads resources across all devices
Does not hide content on mobile versions of your site
Loads quickly like mobile users expect
Has working internal links and redirects
Boasts a UX which is optimized no matter what device your visitors use

If all is done, you are good.

If not, Google may drop your rankings.

Therefore, I am making this whole guide for you to optimize your site for mobile.

Firstly….

What Does Google Consider “Mobile”?

Most of the people consider “mobile device” a table or smartphone.

Google puts tablets in their own class and states that they do not include tablets in the definition.

In short, according to Google: mobile=smartphones.

The main purpose is to optimize your site and content for every device. It includes tablets, phones and other mobile devices.

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CHAPTER 2: How to Implement a Mobile Website That Ranks in Google

To get over mobile SEO, your site has to work on mobile devices at least.

If a visitor goes to a mini version of your desktop site, you will be in trouble.

Luckily, to implement a mobile website is not a hard nut to crack.

So in this chapter, I shall teach you different ways to implement a mobile version of your website by focussing on mobile SEO.

When It Comes to Mobile, You’ve Got 3 Options

There are 3 different ways to configure your site for mobile.

First of all, you have got separate URLs which is also known as“m” configuration.

With this setup, you have a mobile version which is “M” version of your site and you also have the “main” means desktop version of your site.

In short, your site figures out what type of device your visitor is using and redirects them to optimized URL for that device.

Separate URLs were common in the past but now, not anymore.

Why? It is because they are hard to manage.

“M” version creates SEO problems and you require multiple URLs for every piece of content on your website. It also needs complicated “rel=canonical” and “rel=alternative” tags.

That is why I do not suggest M/separate URLs configuration. It is the worst way to configure your website for mobile SEO.

Next, we have Dynamic Serving.

When you serve content dynamically, all of your content is on the same URL. But you show every user different CSS/HTML that depends on the device that they use.

For example, if you visit https://www.greenhatexpert.com/seo-this-year on a desktop, you will see a pre-made desktop version of the site.

But if you will visit the page from your iPhone 8, you will still be on https://www.greenhatexpert.com/seo-this-year but you will see the iPhone 8 version of the page.

Dynamic serving is a better choice for SEO as compared to “M” version of the site. It has some downsides.

For example, it is notorious for showing desktop version to mobile users.

You need to create different versions of your content for upcoming devices. If you do not do this, your site will not be able to recognize a new device. And will show them the terrible version of your site.

Finally, we have Responsive Design.

I saved the best for last.

With the help of responsive design, the content and page’s layout responds to every user.

Responsive design gets rid of separate URLs and different HTML for every device.

In case of being SEO friendly, responsive design is the best and perfect option.

Why?

All of your content is on a single URL (good for sharing and getting links)
Minimal SEO headaches (no “rel=canonical tags”, duplicate content issues etc.)
Insanely user friendly (UX is a big part of SEO thanks to RankBrain)
No redirects (which cause technical SEO issues and can slow down your site)

Still not convinced? Google recommends responsive layouts.

CHAPTER 3: How to Mobile Optimize Your Site

After going through 2 chapters, your site is configured for mobile users. Now it’s time to do mobile SEO.

In this chapter, I shall show you how to tell Google and other search engines that your site is optimized for mobile.

Use Google’s Mobile Usability Test

This tool is available in Google Search Console and it will let you know the issues of your site regarding mobile usability.

To use it, go to your Google search console account. Click “search traffic”>Mobile usability.

There Google will let you know if your mobile users are facing any problem.

(For example, the tool may let you know that you use Flash or that your font is too small for mobile users to read).

You can also use Google’s Mobile-Friendly test.

Just enter your URL into the tool.

And get a full report.

As you can observe, I passed. But it is telling me that mobile Googlebot is having trouble to load all of my resources on my page.

Desktop Googlebot is having no problems to crawl the resources. But the mobile version is unable to do it.

With Google’s Mobile first index live, it is a serious issue. And this is something which remains unknown without this tool.

Super duper helpful.

Let Google Crawl Everything

Do you block Googlebot from accessing Javascript, CSS or other important parts of your site’s code?

It used to be no big deal. But today, it is a very bad idea.

Until Google cannot fully crawl your page, it cannot tell whether it is mobile friendly or not.

How do you know if this is an issue?

First of all, check your robots.txt file.

This file tells Googlebot to not index or crawl certain parts of your site. This file is usually available at site.com/robots.txt. You can also find it inside of Google search console.

While you’re there, click on “Google Index” —> “Blocked Resources”. This will let you know if you’re blocking Googlebot from crawling certain parts of your site.

If you are not blocking anything important, you are good to go.

Put the Kibosh on Interstitial Popups

I know: everyone HATES popups.

Google also hates popups….. especially for mobile users.

Remember: Google #1 priority is to show their users amazing and engaging content. If the content is hidden behind a popup and it is not a good thing.

In fact, Google rolled out an update that specifically targets “Intrusive” popups.

So if you are using popups on your site, it can affect your rankings.

How do you know which popups are OK?

Google gives a few examples of acceptable popups…

…and popups that can get your site penalized.

**How Does Your Responsive Site Actually Look? Check Out This Cool Tool**

It is to see how Google views your mobile site.

But nothing can beat seeing your site on different devices.

If your site is responsive, I recommend checking this free tool.

It’ll show you how your site looks on iPhones, tablets and more:

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I love this tool.

Use The Mobile Version of “Fetch as Google”

Like most people, I’m a visual learner.

It is a nice thing to see a list of mobile SEO issues.

Personally, it is more helpful to know how Google sees my page.

Therefore, I suggest spot testing a few pages on your website using Google search console’s Fetch as Google feature.

Just enter a URL of a prominent page of your site into it:

(Make sure to select “Mobile” from the dropdown box)

And it will show you exactly that same result what Google Bot saw. You can also scroll down to see if Google missed anything like videos, menus and images etc.

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Very helpful.

Let Mobile Users See It All

In past, people would block certain resources from mobile users.

(For example, they might block javascript from loading or hide some content)

They were not doing anything suspicious. To block these resources allow them to load their page faster on mobile devices. It also improves the user experience.

Here is an example of what I mean:

See you need to click “read more” to watch the rest of the content. It may be a problem with Google’s first mobile index.

Why?

With Mobile-first, Google will consider the mobile version of your page as the main version.

If the content is hidden from the mobile visitors, it may not crawl or index or affect the weight of this content.

Back in the day, when it came to hiding content for desktop users, Google has said that:

“If something is relevant to the page, then it’s probably relevant to the user too, so I’d recommend showing it to the user.”

But then Google’s John Mueller recently said that, for the Mobile-first index:

“On the mobile version of the page it can be that you have these kind of tabs and folders and things like that, which we will still treat as normal content on the page. Even if it is hidden on the initial view.”

He also said that, when it comes to Mobile First Index:

“If it’s critical content, it should be visible.”

I shall wait for the official announcement on Google blog before saying anything on this.

In the meantime, here’s my take:

If you will hide or block the content for mobile users, Google will put less weight on it or simply ignore it.

So observe your website on different mobile phones. If desktop users can see something and mobile users are missing it. I suggest that fix it asap.

CHAPTER 4: How to Optimize Your Mobile Sitefor UX Signals

As you know, SEO today is less about focussing on meta tags and more about building an awesome website.

In fact, Google’s RankBrain algorithm is paying attention to Google searchers and how they interact with your site.

If RankBrain observes that your is frustrating for mobile users, it will drop your rankings like a stone.

In this chapter, I shall show you some tips that make sure that mobile users love your website.

Master Mobile Sitespeed

Does Google care how fast your mobile site loads?

Yes.

In fact, they recommend that your site should load under a second for mobile users.

That is a hard nut to crack. Luckily, there are some free tools on the market to help you to reach Google’s guideline.

First of all, we have Google’s PageSpeed Insights tool.

This tool allows you to know the time of site load on mobile.

In addition, it also gives you suggestions that you can use to speed up.

You can also check out WebPageTest.org. By default, it will load your site on a desktop browser. You can select a mobile browser from the menu:

And it will give you a list of suggestion which are for mobile browsers:

If you are really interested in pagespeed, check out this excellent resource.

This guide will help you to load your site like lightening.

Make Your Content Insanely Easy to Read on Phones

Do users have to pinch, scroll or squint to read your mobile content?

So they will press the ‘back’ button.

For example, you don’t want your content to look like this:

Yes, this page is optimized for mobile. But it is hard to read.

You need your font to be big, bold and legible:

So:

How can you make your mobile content more readable?

Use at least 14px font (I prefer 15 or 16)
Use short paragraphs (1-2 lines per paragraph)
Go with a line length between 50-60 characters
Make sure there’s tons of contrast between text and background (people use phones outside, which can make low-contrast text harder to read)

It is also helpful if your content is good and interesting but that is another thing.

Use HTML5 For Video and Animated Content

Do you embed videos in your content?

Does your page perform all sorts of fancy animations when people visit?

If the content is coded in flash, it will not work on mobile devices.

Instead, you need to code that up in HTML5.

Don’t Forget the “Viewport Content” Tag

Do you use responsive design?

If yes, do not forget the viewport meta tag.

This tag changes the size of your page based on the device of user.

Google also suggests that you setup your viewport meta tag like this:

If you will forget this tag or you will not configure it correctly. Your site will look funky to mobile users.

You have double check it to know that you have set this up.

Implement These 3 Quick Mobile UX Hacks

These are 3 quick tips designed to boost the usability of your site for mobile Google searchers.

Make Header Images Really Small

Mobile Google users want to get answer now.

It means you do not have to use giant header images like this:

So delete them or make them smaller for mobile users or visitors:

Use Lots of “Negative” Space

Negative space is the space between buttons, text and design elements. It is really important for mobile websites.

On a desktop, you can use a covered page.

But on a phone, you cannot get away with a covered page.

It is very important for content which you want to rank in Google. If a Google visitor is having trouble to read your content or finding what he needs. He will bounce your site and will return to search results.

And using a lot of negative space, like this, is another way to reduce the bounce rate and improve the dwell time:

Put Social Share Buttons as a Tab Bar

The fact is: social sharing buttons can increase the amount of shares of your content.

Social share buttons work well when they are in a sidebar:

They do not distract but if someone wants to share, the buttons are right here.

The problem is: the setup is not possible on mobile.

Therefore, I suggest using a tool like Sumo that shows the social icons as a tab bar at the bottom of the page.

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Simple.

CHAPTER 5:Advanced Mobile SEO Tips and Best Practices

Now your site is mobile optimized, it’s time to take things to the next level.

In this last chapter of my guide, I shall give you an advanced mobile SEO tips, strategies and best practices.

Fix Your Mobile CTR, Get More Traffic

I do not need to tell you that your organic click through rate is a Huge Google ranking factor.

If Google will observe that the mobile users do not click on your result, it will downrank you.

But how do you know that your CTR is up to the mark? Here is the process:

First, go to the Google Search Console’s Search Analytics section.

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Next, click “Compare Devices”.

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And choose “Desktop” vs. “Mobile” and hit “Compare”:

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Now, take a look at how your desktop and mobile CTR size up.

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It is a normal thing for your desktop and mobile CTRs to be different here.

If you notice that your desktop CTR presses your mobile CTR for a certain keyword, search for that keyword in Google using your phone.

It can be that the mobile SERPs have more ads which are crowding organic results.

Or it can be your title tag is cutting off.

Either way, you will come with an insight which you can use to increase your mobile CTR.

Turn Mobile Donkeys Into Unicorns

Google’s Mobile first index means that Google will put more weight on mobile UX signals.

In simple words, if mobile users bounce from your site like crazy, it will put a negative effect on your rankings.

Therefore, I suggest compare your desktop vs mobile bounce rate and dwell time using Google analytics.

It is very easy and well worth.

To do it, login to your Google analytics account. Click Site Content>Landing Pages.

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It will show you the most popular pages on your website. Click on a page which you want to get more traffic to.

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Then click “Secondary Dimension”> “Device Category”.

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It will show you how your UX signals compare on desktop vs mobile.

For example, for this page, my bounce rate and dwell time are almost similar. So this page is probably optimized well for mobile users.

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But if Google analytics shows you the big difference between mobile and desktop users, then visit the page on your own phone.

You may find something bad that is causing mobile users to bounce your page.

When you are done, move to the next tip.

Boost Your Mobile Page Speed With These 3 Tips

After Google’s mobile-first update, Google will look into the mobile page speed. Will my desktop speed will still matter? Maybe.

But it will not get that importance as how your website loads on mobile.

Here is how you can skyrocket the mobile loading speed of your site.

First of all, do a mobile speed test at ThinkWithGoogle.com:

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This tool is similar to any other speed testing tool. It even loads your site on 3G to create the mobile environment.

It will give you a helpful report that will tell you how long your site takes to load on a mobile device.

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And also how to remove the speed breakers.

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Here are some other quick tips to try out:

Smash your images: If you use WordPress, I suggest installing an image optimizer, like Smush Image Compression. These SIGNIFICANTLY reduce the file size of your images, which can speed up load times dramatically.
Implement Browser Cache: Google themselves suggested caching your site to make your site load faster.
Get a CDN: CDNs can make page elements (especially images) load 2-3x faster.

Optimize Title and Description Tags for Mobile SERPs

Do you get the majority of the organic traffic from mobile?

Then you need to optimize your title and descriptions tags according to the mobile search results.

Here’s how:

Google provides more title tag characters to work on mobile. But your meta description is short.

(Go figure)

Here’s the exact breakdown:

Desktop
Title: Approximately 70 Characters
Description: Approximately 300 Characters

Mobile
Title: Approximately 78 Characters
Description: Approximately 300 Characters

In short words, if your title tag is 69 or fewer characters, it will not get cut off on mobile or on desktop.

But let’s suppose you get more traffic from mobile. You may want to expand the title tag and take advantage of the extra space. Even if you exceed the desktop characters limit.

For example, your title tag looks like this:

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That’s 66 characters. So this title will show in-full on desktop and mobile.

Now suppose you wanted to use a word or phrase that can increase your CTR. Your title tag will be look like this:

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That’s 78 characters.

Yes, 78 characters mean that Google will cut your title tag on desktop searches. But it will show up just fine on mobile.

If you have small traffic of desktop users. It may be worth making your title tag longer to increase the CTR.

Should You Implement AMP?

Accelerated Mobile Pages are designed to load quickly on mobile devices. In fact, AMP pages load 4 times faster than non-AMP pages.

As you may know, Google has led the charge on AMP.

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As AMP is a Google project, that is why a lot of SEO experts are implementing AMP on their client’s sites.

(It is due to the fact that Google will reward AMP-friendly sites with higher rankings)

Apart from higher rankings, Google also shows a little icon in the search results that may boost your CTR.

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The question is:

Does it make sense to use AMP?

The choice is yours, I do not recommend it.

Here’s why:

First, AMP puts SERIOUS limits on your page’s functionality.

Want full control of your ads? Not happening.

How about a lightbox or popup? No.

AMP also puts serious restrictions on CSS. This makes your site load faster but makes your content look like generic.

Secondly, AMP can hurt your link building efforts.

When someone links to your content, those links point directly to your site.

But here’s the deal:

When someone links to your AMP pages, this link will give a link to Google.com domain

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In other words, AMP can cost you in the link department as well.

So links to your AMP pages will boost Google domain authority, not yours.

Finally, AMP may not last.

LTE is already SUPER fast. And 5G is just around the corner.

So the idea of jumping through a thousand methods to increase in mobile loading speed can make sense. But moving forward makes more sense.

Bottom line? Unless you have a compelling reason to do so, I do not suggest AMP for most publishers.

Use Schema Structured Data To Stand Out in Mobile SERPs

As you may know, mobile SERPs show the search results like cards:

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And these cards make Schema.org structured data super effective.

Why?

Well structured data can hook you up with recipe images, review stars and event dates in SERPs. It can increase your organic CTR.

For example, look at the downshiftology mobile results from ToddyCafe.com. this contrast is not powerful on desktop:

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In a nutshell, if you want more clicks from mobile Google searchers, implement well structured data.

Now It’s Your Turn

So that’s it for my guide to mobile optimization.

I hope you enjoyed it.

What are you doing to get your site ready for mobile SEO?

Or maybe you have a question about something from today’s guide.

Either way, let me know by leaving a quick comment below.

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Arsalan Rauf

Arsalan Rauf is an entrepreneur, freelancer, creative writer, and also a fountainhead of Green Hat Expert. Additionally, he is also an eminent researcher of Blogging, SEO, Internet Marketing, Social Media, premium accounts, codes, links, tips and tricks, etc.

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Best Online Grammar Checker Tools for WordPress in 2023

Last Updated on December 31, 2022 By Arsalan Rauf

In this post of Green Hat Expert, we shall discuss the best online Grammar Checker tools for WordPress in 2023.

Best Online Grammar Checker Tools for WordPress

Are you searching for the best online grammar checker tools for WordPress this year? There are several browsers that support built-in spell checking but they do not check grammar and readability. In this post, we are sharing the best grammar checker tools (2023) which you can use with WordPress.

Why Add a Grammar Checker Tool for WordPress?

It is due to the fact that most experienced writers also make mistakes while writing.

If you will do proofreading of your articles before publishing them, it will lead to small careless errors.

There is another way to get over this problem if you read your articles loud.

If you listen to your own voice, it will help you to find mistakes and you can also improve the readability score of your articles.

You need a grammar checker tool if you want to get help with spelling and grammar.

These tools can detect your grammar and spelling mistakes instantly.

So it will also save your time from proofreading and it will also improve your content.

Let’s take a look at the best grammar checker tools for WordPress which you can use.

Grammarly

Grammarly is a professional grammar checker tool that you can use as an addon. The addon is available for Google Chrome and Firefox.

Grammarly checks your spelling and grammar errors when you compose your post.

You will find an indicator at the bottom right corner of the writing area. When you click the indicator it will show you the number of errors you make while writing.

It will highlight grammar, spelling and contextual errors with an underline when you write.

I am also using Grammarly for grammar checking.

There is a downside of Grammarly, you have to go to the text editor in order to proofread it. If you do not like it, you can always go for the best Grammarly alternatives.

Ginger

Ginger is another best online grammar checker tools for WordPress which improves your writing skills and also boost your productivity.

It is also available as a browser addon that gives good user experience.

It shows a tiny icon at the bottom right corner of writing areas including Gmail, Facebook and WordPress post editor etc.

Ginger starts checking your mistakes when you write content and highlights errors with context.

Additionally, it also has some few drawbacks, you have to go to the text editor in WordPress.

For better experience, you need to click on the icon (edit in ginger).

After the Deadline

After the deadline is a Google chrome extension which is another grammar checker tool.

It has built-in spelling checker along with readability and optional grammar check.

After the installation of the addon in your browser, you need to go to the options.

It will take you to the addon settings page where you can check the options of your choice.

The spellcheck icon of this tool is available at the bottom right corner of the editor and you can run it while writing your content.

Hemingway Proofreading Tool for Writers

Hemingway Editor Proofreading Tool for Writers

Hemingway is another web based grammar checker tool or text editor. So it will not work in your WordPress post editor.

It is free web based editor which enables you to check grammar, spelling and readability of your articles.

Additionally, do not consider it only a grammar checker but also a style checker.

It shows you your readability score so that you improve the readability score of your content.

Hemingway app also suggests improvements in your content and it is the best grammar checker app.

It has distraction-free and clean layout that helps you to assess your content quickly before publishing your content on WordPress.

Hemingway app is also available in paid version for both Windows and Mac.

These versions allow you to post content directly to WordPress.

Language Tool

**LanguageTool Style and Grammar Check**

Language tool is also available as a free addon for Google Chrome, Firefox, Libre office and Google Docs etc.

It is also a web based editor and we can also call it a complete desktop app.

Language tool has more than 20 languages including English, German, Polish and Russian etc.

So you can use this tool for various languages and correct your spelling and grammar errors.

In addition, this feature makes it beneficial for multilingual websites and multilingual writers or authors.

Note: The free version of this tool is limited to 20,000 characters per check. If you want to get more features, you need to switch or upgrade to paid plans.

Jetpack

Jetpack is a WordPress plugin that has a number of modules.

You can add proofreading feature to your WordPress post editor using this plugin.

Go to Jetpack > Settings page for extended grammar check. You will find spelling, grammar and style section under the writing tab. You can enable different options for proofreading such as style rules.

The user needs a WordPress.com account if he wants to use Jetpack which is a downside of this plugin.

Additionally, you also get a number of features that you may not require.

I hope that after reading this post, you will get the best grammar checker tool for WordPress.

You may like our post on Best Managed WordPress Hosting.

Do not forget to share this post.

Arsalan Rauf

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20 Best WordPress SEO Plugins For Higher Rankings in 2023

Last Updated on December 31, 2022 By Arsalan Rauf

20 Best WordPress SEO Plugins For Higher Rankings in 2023

WordPress is one of the best and SEO friendly content management systems which is available in millions of websites. SEO plugins of WordPress are backbone of WordPress and they play an important role in helping millions of people or webmasters to optimize their sites. In addition, they also rank them better in search engines or search results.

There are several WordPress SEO plugins available for free of cost and premium plugins are also available. But all of these SEO plugins do not give the best results.

It is a confusing task when you have to select the right SEO plugin for your site when you are a WordPress beginner. In this post, I shall highlight the best WordPress SEO plugins for your site. You will be able to make the right decision when it comes to select an SEO plugin.

Before going through different premium and free SEO plugins, let’s have a look at what kind of important consideration you need to make when you choose an SEO plugin.

SEO lies in two categories: On-page SEO and Off-page SEO. If you are not aware of SEO then check our SEO Definitive guide to learn SEO.

Let’s see the list of 20 Best WordPress SEO plugins. If you are already using some of them, you can skip those and try the rest of plugins.

But first of all, you need to know the functions of each plugin and the plugin is beneficial for your website or not.

Best WordPress SEO Plugins

WordPress SEO by Yoast
All In One SEO Pack
SEO Ultimate
The SEO Framework
SEO SQUIRRLY™
All In One Schema.org Rich Snippets
Smush Image Compression and Optimization
Broken Link Checker
Rankie – WordPress Rank Tracker
WordPress Ping Optimizer
W3 Total Cache
Redirection
WooCommerce – All in One SEO Pack
Glue for Yoast SEO & AMP
SEO Optimized Images
EWWW Image Optimizer
Simple 301 Redirects
Google XML Sitemaps
Pretty Link Lite
WP SEO HTML Sitemap

How to Choose a Good WordPress SEO Plugin

A good WordPress SEO plugin should have the following qualities:

Clean and Efficient Code–

A good SEO plugin consists of clean code and does not require JavaScript and CSS scripts which can add unnecessary load on your website. You need to make sure that plugin is fast and efficient and does not slow down your site. The plugin should be easy to understand and one should know how every section of the code works. Clean code is the basis of functioning WordPress plugin.

Multiple SEO Features – The best SEO plugin should have multiple SEO features and it should reduce the number of SEO plugins on your website. There are single feature SEO plugins are also available which do one task like 301 redirection. The best SEO plugin should be full of features and it will make it efficient and complete plugin. It can handle multiple tasks. I do not recommend to install multiple plugins of SEO on your site because it will increase the load on website.
Extensive Documentation – Plugin documentation is also necessary because it helps the user to understand the features of the plugin. The documentation should be in written or video form, written articles with describing images on how to install, configure and update the plugin. Most of the SEO plugins consist of admin dashboard and you do not need to configure it. Seo plugin should have clear instructions on how to do setting or configuration, a guide should be available for the user to make him understand.
Good Customer Support: A good SEO plugin should have good customer support. There are free WordPress plugins available in the directory of WordPress with free support in the respective plugin support forum. You need to find the support which is offered by the developer of the plugin on the support forum before you decide whether to use it or not. The user needs to use the plugin support forum on WordPress repository to be aware of the common problems accompanied by the plugin and the available solutions for it.
Good Reviews & Ratings: All SEO WordPress plugins get ratings and reviews from the users. So you can use them as a guide to know the value of the plugin that it will add on your site.
Regular Update: A WordPress SEO plugin should be updated on regular basis to make it compatible with the latest version of WordPress. If a plugin is not updated for a long time, it will become incompatible with the core files of WordPress plugins. You should never compromise on the update of the plugin when you select the best SEO plugin for your WordPress website. Check the changelogs of the plugin to know the status of updates and what changes have been done before.
Plugins Compatibility: WordPress SEO plugins should be highly compatible with other WordPress plugins. Otherwise, this incompatibility will lead your WordPress website to certain errors which can cause your website to crash. SEO plugins which are using JavaScripts libraries are more likely to get more conflicts.

Best WordPress SEO Plugins

Selecting the right SEO plugin will show that whether your website is going to be successful or not. There are a number of WordPress plugins which support a wide range of SEO features but there are some specific plugins that offer necessary aspects for on-page SEO.

You should know your SEO needs before getting started. There are plugins which create XML sitemaps and there are some which optimize images for fast loading speed. This type of single task plugins cannot be used to optimize a full WordPress website.

In a nutshell, let’s see the features of the 20 best SEO plugins.

1 WordPress SEO by Yoast

WordPress SEO by Yoast is one of the famous WordPress SEO plugin. Millions of webmasters are using it for on-page optimization of posts and pages on their website. Yoast has become a prominent plugin because it enables you to set page titles, URL, sitemap and even the meta description.

It has the ability to create sitemap and link up your website with Google webmaster tools for verification.
Yoast SEO plugin can also enable you to link up your website to Bing Webmaster console.
This plugin is the leading WordPress SEO plugin on the market now, more than 3 million users are using the free version of this plugin.
Yoast SEO also provides the complete SEO page analysis and scores the page depending on the focus keyword.
It has SEO indicators which can easily tell you that whether the page is well optimized or not.
Yoast SEO plugin is available in both free as well as in premium version. You can get the premium version from Yoast official website.
You can add more keywords using the premium version of Yoast. It means that multiple keywords optimization using one plugin.
It also supports social media integration that allows the content to optimize for social media sharing.
Yoast SEO is also compatible with WordPress multisite making, that is why it is the best WordPress SEO plugin for multisite too.

Yoast SEO is the most complete SEO plugin and it is available for free.

2 All In One SEO Pack

All in One SEO pack is the second most comprehensive WordPress SEO plugin available in WordPress directory for optimizations of posts and pages. It is also a very popular SEO plugin like Yoast SEO and it has more than 3 million downloads with these features:

You can create XML Sitemap using this plugin and submit it to Google and Bing to help improve your search rankings.
All in One SEO Pack supports Google Accelerated Mobile Pages that makes it an effective plugin for mobile search optimization.
This SEO plugin supports Google Analytics and works efficiently to help you track the traffic on every page of your site.
Optimizing custom post types is also achievable with All in One SEO Pack plugin.
It supports Canonical URLS.
You can create redirects from WordPress attachments to the parent posts making the attachment pages SEO friendly.
You can automatically notify search engines like Google and Bing whenever there are new changes on your website.
All in One SEO Pack has an inbuilt API that other plugins and themes can access to extend its functionality.
All in One SEO Pack plugin is the only free plugin that has the ability of SEO integration for ecommerce sites and also supports WooCommerce.
It is compatible with Nonce security and PHP 7 is built into the plugin making it secure for all websites.
This plugin automatically optimizes the posts, pages and custom post types titles for search engine ranking and also automatically generates Meta tags. It also avoids the chance of duplicate content penalty.
All in One SEO Pack is a good plugin for WordPress beginners since they do not need to configure any settings; it starts working right after installation – out-of-box solution for WordPress SEO. For advanced users, you can adjust the features to make your site more appealing to search engines.
Has a feature to override the title and the Meta description that are set automatically. You can add your own custom titles and Meta description just like in the Yoast SEO plugin.

In short words, All in One SEO pack plugin is the second most famous free SEO plugin that is the choice of millions of sites. It also has a premium version that provides premium support and users can upgrade to it.

3 SEO Ultimate

SEO Ultimate is the next WordPress SEO plugin on our list which is also free and available in WordPress directory. You can download it from there. SEO Ultimate, as the name suggests, seems to be a perfect on-page optimization plugin which has a lot of features.

This plugin has more than 200,000 active installs and continues to remain in the top position of best WordPress SEO plugins due to its popularity.

There is a notable issue in this plugin that is, it does not offer support in WordPress forums. So if you need support, you will have to upgrade to the premium version to get access to dedicated email support. The premium version consists of training videos like how to use the plugin and exclusive features. These are the SEO features offered by SEO Ultimate:

Title tag rewriter feature enables you to edit your title posts and optimizes them for improved on-page SEO and to rank higher in the search engines.
Meta Description Editor enables you to add a Meta Description to your posts, categories , pages, attachments, tags and even the homepage. This allows you to optimize the Meta description for the potential keywords and rank higher in the search engine.
Deep link Juggernaut is an awesome anchor text driven internal linking feature that enables you to create deep links between related posts. These internal links are very good for SEO.
Ability to enhance the internal ranking pattern of SEO.
The open graph feature enables you to automatically create open graph data for posts, homepages, user profiles and attachments.
Snippet creator allows you to add quality snippet code for reviews.
Author highlighter makes code to make sure the author’s Google+ profile image is visible together with the post that appears in Google search results.
The 404 monitor allows you to improve the experience of users and spiders visiting your site by using a redirection on “page not found” errors.

4 The SEO Framework

The SEO framework is another free SEO plugin for WordPress that gives an automatic solution for SEO. It is ideal for every WordPress website. This plugin allows you to make enhanced SEO value for content of your site.

This plugin is excellent for both beginners and experts who are looking for a reliable SEO solution. It is not branded therefore, no one will ever know the tools that you are using for your client or for your site. The user can use the plugin in WordPress interface and it will make you believe that it is the part of WordPress.

It does not consist of any advertisement that can be irritating for your users. It has small and hidden HTML comments which you can deactivate using an extension or filter. In addition, the plugin will enable users to set different standards for every post and page manually.

The code of the plugin uses flexible, temporary caching and can reach PHP level. It will help to reduce the page load time of the plugin even if you are using several meta tags. You do not need caching plugin while using The SEO Framework.

Here is a summary of the Plugin:

The Plugin supports custom post such as bbPress and WooCommerce.
It gives beginner-friendly SEO solution.
This plugin makes a canonical URL to prevent duplicated content with full Domain Mapping, subdomain and HTTPS
It enables you to create open graph images that can automatically be resized and enhanced to match the requirements of user.
The plugin allows you to adjust more than 100 website settings such as Schema.org Structured Data output options.
This WordPress plugin makes it easy for your pages to be shared in an attractive way on social sites including Facebook and Instagram.
The plugin is preconfigured to give an ideal starting point for a range of sites.
It enables you to adjust SEO using global options.
This plugin is developed to help avoid canonical errors with Multisite Domain Mapping, pages, categories and subdomains.
It stops 404 pages and empty classifications from being indexed despite them not sending a 404 response.
You can automatically notify Google, Bing, and Yandex on your site updates by using sitemaps.
You can disable the small and hidden HTML comments with the help of a filter or extension.
This WordPress plugin enables users to manually set different standards for every page, post, term and public CPT.
It is not branded so no one will be able to know the tools you have used to make your site or that of your client.
The plugin does not contain any advertisements.

5 SEO SQUIRRLY™

SEO Squirrly another best SEO plugin for WordPress that is free and it is helpful for newbies. It enables the beginners to create high quality content which is human as well as SEO friendly. It will provide an interesting content to your readers and will also give you boost in your Google ranking of your site.

It uses one of the best SEO tools that is Audit website and enables you to track your content marketing strategy. This will help you to improve your SEO statistics by getting reports from your site on weekly basis.

You can also provide these reports to your SEO team and content writer using email. These reports will help you to understand different SEO strategies and content marketing using email training. In addition, it also tells you which areas of your WordPress site needs improvement.

It is compatible with most of the themes and plugins which we can expect to be on your site. This plugin will also give you the real time optimization of your posts or articles when you write or edit them. SEO Squirrly will help you to find the keywords and topics of your user’s interest to help you to out-rank your competitors. Here is a short overview of this plugin and it’s features:

It gives you with copyright-Free Imagesthat the user can use.
Squirrly enables you to write high-quality content with the help of social intelligence using the Inspiration Box.
This WordPress SEO Plugin lets you pay attention to your E-commerce SEO strategy with just a few clicks.
The JSON-LD structure and the Squirrly Snippet enable you to show the way that your site appears on Google.
It enables you create SEO content which is friendly for SEO and human readers.
This SEO plugin also creates your site’s XML Sitemap for Google and Bing.
It gives you email alerts when there is something that needs instant attention on your WordPress site.
The plugin contains open graph generator that includes the OG protocol to your articles to enable you to preview videos and images when you share posts and articles on Facebook.
The Integrated Pinterest Rich Pin Validator has more details when your site is pinned to help, users are aware whether the image pinned indicates an article, a product, a recipe or even an application.

6 All In One Schema.org Rich Snippets

All in One Schema.org Rich Snippets is another best SEO plugin for WordPress which is free. It gives you a short summary of your site page in search results of search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo. Sometimes in the News feed of Facebook in a setup that show author photo, star ratings, and image with other details.

See the plugin features below:

The plugin gives the search engine with only the necessary and specific information to display in the snippets of the search result.
It gives very interactive snippets with images, star ratings, price as well as author to make it easy for you to get over the competition.
The Rich Snippet plugin allows improving the Click Through Rate AKA(CTR).
It enables you to rank higher in the search results.
This WordPress plugin enables Facebook display correct information when users share the links of your posts on Facebook.
The plugin supports a wide range of Schemas including reviews, articles, people, products, events, and recipe among others etc.

7 Smush Image Compression and Optimization

Smush Image Compression and Optimization is another best SEO plugin for WordPress which is free. It enables you to compress images with the help of WordPress image smusher. It is considered as one of the proven and tested image enhancement plugins for quality as well as for speed. The plugin also enables you to resize the image by setting the maximum height and width to scale down the large images. It also allows you to resize the size of files without losing its quality.

It has WPMUDEV’s super servers that allow it to smush every image in order to remove unnecessary data without making the site slow. The plugin scans every image you upload or available in your site and removes all the unwanted data before adding the image in your media library. Here are the features of this plugin:

The plugin enables you to resize and compress images uploaded and those available in any other directory including those in NextGEN, Amazon S3 and images in other WordPress plugin and theme.
It can be used with all media library plugins.
The WordPress plugin uses innovative lossless compression procedures to resize and compress your images.
It enables you to select a maximum width and height to automatically scale large images before including them in your media library.
The plugin asynchronously and automatically smushes your attached images for fast compression whenever you upload.
You can manually smush each of your attachments separately in the media library, or in sets of 50 attachments in a sequence.
It has WPMU DEV’s fast and dependable Smush API to avoid any slowdown during smushing.
The plugin gives individuals and global settings that are ideal for multiple websites.
It enables you to see innovative compression statistics for each attachment and library totals.

8 Broken Link Checker

The Broken link checker is another best SEO plugin for WordPress that identifies broken links on your site or blog. When the plugin detects broken links, it informs you.

After installation, the plugin begins to analyze posts, bookmarks and any other content on your site to look for links. The plugin begins to check every link to observe if it is working properly. If it detects any broken link, it will display you the broken links in a new tab on WP admin panel in the tools category.

You will also get a notification in the ‘Broken Link Checker’ widget available on dashboard. When you get the list of broken links, you can select the to edit the links to make sure that they are working. It can be completed by using ‘Edit URL’ feature.

The “Unlink” button enables you to delete the broken link but leaves the link text untouched. When you come to know that a link has been wrongly identified as broken, you can manually mark the link as functional with the help of “Not Broken” button. The user can also create a new link filter by hitting the “Create Custom Filter” button.

Broken Link Checker enables you to monitor links in your pages, comments, blogroll, posts as well as in custom fields.
This WordPress SEO plugin not only finds broken links but it also detects redirects, missing images and links that are not working properly.
It informs you through email or dashboard when it finds broken images.
You can make the broken images to be seen differently in posts.
The plugin stops search engines from reaching broken links.
It allows you to search and filter links with the help of anchor text or URL.
You can edit broken links directly from the page of the plugin, without physically updating every post.
The plugin is easy to configure.

9 Rankie – WordPress Rank Tracker

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Rankie – WordPress rank tracker is a premium SEO plugin for WordPress that allows you to check the ranking of your website on Google. It enables you to follow the keyword position closely.

It has the ability to create comprehensive reports and it updates the keywords rank positions on daily basis. The plugin also merges high-quality research tool that creates quality keyword lists users are already searching. Here is a quick overview of the features:

The plugin enables you to track WordPress ranking on Google using the keywords by updating the ranks on regular basis to make sure it works like a WordPress SERP plugin.
Rankie plugin gives you ranking reports regularly on monthly and annually basis to keep you updated on your website ranking.
The plugin also allows you to download the reports in PDF format.
This plugin not only acts as a WordPress SERP tracker but it also works as a keyword research tool that gives a large list of quality keywords that are taken from Google suggestions.
Rankie WordPress plugin also adds auto track searched keywords to the dashboard for effective tracking.
It gives four procedures for finding the website position on Google for keywords.
The 4 site location positions are: Google Directly, Google via F-secure.com, Google Custom Search API, and Google via kproxy.com proxy.
This plugin sends you an email daily with every position change from up or down.
This plugin gives distinctive ranking information and creates a ranking graph for every keyword it tracks.
The WordPress rank tracker plugin allows keywords tracked to be instantly clarified by site, group or by search term.
The Rankie WordPress plugin has the ability to use proxies when retrieving Google for search.
The plugin gives you comprehensive action log that displays every action completed by the plugin.

10 WordPress Ping Optimizer

WordPress consists of internal mechanism of pinging services whenever a user publishes a new post on his WordPress website. The ping services to be notified can be put on the settings page in the dashboard of WordPress.

At times, when you abuse pinging services, your site may be marked as spam. To prevent the abusing or unnecessary pinging, you have to use a plugin such as WordPress ping optimizer. Here is the list of the features of WordPress ping optimizer:

The WordPress Ping Optimizer allows you to prevent your blog from being penalized as a ping spammer. WordPress blogs tend to have unnecessary pings that occur every time you edit a post.
WordPress blog pings all the times when you hit on the “Save and Continue Editing” or “Save” button. This plugin is made to get rid of those unwanted pings.

11 W3 Total Cache

W3 Total Cache is another free and best SEO WordPress plugin that is made to help you to make the user experience better and SEO of your site. The plugin allows you to reduce the download time with the help of features such as the content delivery network (CDN). This plugin enables you to improve the search engine results ranking, especially for websites with a responsive design and those that use SSL or HTTPS certificates.

It also allows you to increase the conversion rates and the “site performance” that is known to affect the ranking of the website on Google. The WordPress plugin also helps to better web server performance to make sure high traffic timings.

The plugin saves you about 80% of bandwidth by minify and HTTP compression of HTML, CSS, feeds and JavaScript. Here is a brief overview of the plugin:

The plugin gives you with enhanced progressive render for quick rendering and interaction.
It is compatible with shared hosting, clusters and dedicated servers.
The WordPress plugin gives transparent content delivery network (CDN) board along with Media Library, WordPress itself and theme files.
W3 Total Cache plugin also supports Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP).
The cache WordPress plugin supports HTTPS or Secure Socket Layer (SSL).
It enables caching of minified and compressed pages and posts in the memory or on disk.
The caching of minified and compressed CSS and JavaScript files in memory, on disk or on CDN is supported.
It also supports caching of feeds, objects and fragments in memory, search results pages, database objects, on CDN or on disk.
It has mobile support for individual caching of pages by referrer or groups of user agents as well as theme converting for groups of user agents or referrers.

How to Install W3 Total Cache Plugin in WordPress

12 Redirection

Redirection is another free and Best SEO WordPress plugin that is made to help you handle 301 redirections, find all the 404 errors and organize any unattached ends that may be available on your website.

This makes it easy for you when you are shifting pages from an old site to a new one. You will also find it useful when you are altering your WordPress installation directory.

The plugin helps in tracking 404 errors by capturing a log of the errors and easily mapping the errors to 301 redirects.
It allows routine ‘pass-through’ redirection letting you pass a URL through to another page, file or website.
Redirection is established on user agent, referrer or login status.
Redirection plugin supports full logs for all redirected URLs.
The plugin enables all URLs to be redirected.
It supports WP CLI.
It automatically includes a 301 redirection whenever the URL of the post changes.
You can manually add 301, 302, and 307 redirection for a WordPress post or for other files.
The plugin supports complete import/export to Nginx rewrite.rules, CSV, JSON, and .htaccess.
It gives support to full regular expression.
The plugin acts entirely inside WordPress thus it does not need Apache .htaccess to work
It gives support for Apache and Nginx.
It gives you with redirection data informing you on the number of times a redirection has occurred, the last time it occurred, the person who tried to do it and the location they found your URL.
This plugin is entirely localized and available in multiple languages.

13 WooCommerce – All in One SEO Pack

The WooCommerce – All in One SEO Pack is another Best WordPress plugin that is made to work as an extension of the All in One SEO Pack Plugin by Michael Torbert. This plugin supports the All in One SEO Pack dialog on the Add or Edit Products screen in WooCommerce.

The plugin enables you to add, edit and organize All in One SEO Pack Meta information. Before installing this WordPress plugin, it is important for you to keep in mind that the plugin has a disclaimer that the author or developer is not responsible for any harm that might happen to your website when you install the plugin. It is, however, a straightforward and easy to install plugin and necessary for those users with WooCommerce websites.

The following are some features of this plugin :

The plugin displays the All in One SEO Pack dialog on the Add/Edit Products screen in WooCommerce.
It enables you to add, edit and organize All in One SEO Pack meta information
This free WordPress plugin works as an extension of the All in One SEO Pack Plugin by Michael Torbert.

14 Glue for Yoast SEO & AMP

Glue for Yoast SEO & AMP is a free plugin that integrates Yoast SEO into your AMP pages. The WordPress AMP plugin gives you the technical execution of the AMP specifications to make sure that your website pages have valid AMP code. The plugin also makes sure that your meta-data is applied in a proper way.

The plugin provides you an easy way to modify your AMP pages.
It includes basic styling in the form of link styles and colors to give your AMP pages a similar feeling to your main pages.
This WordPress plugin enables you to change your AMP page design.

15 SEO Optimized Images

The SEO Optimized Images is another SEO friendly WordPress plugin enables you to include Seo Friendly title, attributes and alt attributes to your pictures or images. When you install and activate the plugin, you should choose the pattern you want and the plugin will automatically switch the title tags and alt tags without making any changes to the database.

It means that if you want your website to return to how it looked before you activated the plugin; you need to deactivate the plugin and everything will be back. This plugin also enables you to add post category, image name and post title in title and alt attributes of images.

This WordPress plugin gives you an effective opportunity to add SEO friendly title attribute and alt attributes to your images.
SEO optimized images plugin also makes it easy for you to approach your site to its original state that it had before you activated the plugin.
The WordPress plugin enables you to add image name, post category and post title in title and alt attributes of pictures.
It automatically switches the title tags and alt tags without making any changes to the database.

16 EWWW Image Optimizer

EWWW Image Optimizer is another best SEO plugin for WordPress that is developed to help you intensify the speed of your page using image optimization. Increasing your page speed can enable you to improve your search engine ranking. It can also enable you to get better conversion rate , in this way, increasing your sales.

An increase in the speed of your posts and pages can also reduce your storage space and bandwidth. This plugin automatically improves the quality of new images that are uploaded.

The plugin also has the ability to modify the images that have already been uploaded and change them to the ideal file format. It enables you to either select pixel perfect compression or high compression selections that are visually lossless.

The plugin does not have limitations of file size and speed.
It uses optional Parallel Optimization and automatic Background Optimization to avert upload delays.
EWWW Image Optimizer makes sure smooth management with pixel-perfect optimization with the help of industrial standard tools and progressive translation.
This WordPress plugin gives you the top compression quality ratio available with a range of options for PDF, JPG and PNG files.
It gives adaptive navigation with quick conversion selections to get the perfect image format.
The plugin is free and gives you API to make sure that you never pay for an image that cannot be compressed.
The EWWW image optimizer gives you ample coverage without leaving out any images and optimizing everything on your site.
The plugin utilizes high quality SSL encryption for all communications to ensure safety.
It gives free image backup that enables you to store your original images for one month.

17 Simple 301 Redirects

The Simple 301 Redirects is another free SEO plugin for WordPress that is developed to give you a simpler way of redirecting requests to other pages on your site or somewhere else on the web. It makes it convenient for you when you shift your website to WordPress and you are unable to retain the structure of your URL.

You can setup the 301 redirects from your old pages to your new pages to make sure that any inbound links are effortlessly migrated with their page rank.

It is a plugin that provides you an easier way to redirect requests to other pages on your site.
The plugin enables you to setup the 301 redirects from your old pages to your new pages so that the inbound links migrate with their page rank during WordPress shifting of your Website.

18 Google XML Sitemaps

Google XML Sitemaps is another Best SEO plugin for WordPress that allows you to improve the SEO of your site by generating distinct XML sitemaps to help search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask.com to index your website with ease.

The sitemaps make it easier for crawlers to observe the whole structure of the website and regain it effectively. This plugin is compatible with custom URLs and all types of pages made by WordPress.

The plugin sends notifications to key search engines every time you create a post about new products or content.
Google XML Sitemaps plugin is ranked as one of the top WordPress plugins that enable you to create XML sitemap for search engines.
It a free WordPress plugin that comes with a plenty of translations.
The plugin is compatible with custom URLs and different types of pages created by WordPress.
The plugin makes it easier for crawlers to observe your website.

19 Pretty Link Lite

Pretty Link Lite is a free SEO plugin for WordPress that gives additional tools and redirection that makes it possible for you to automatically create cloak links as well as pretty links. You can replace the keywords in your blog with pretty links to improve your search engine optimization. Pretty links are designed to help you use your domain name to shorten links.

Pretty Links not only allow you to create links but also help you track every hit on URLs for a detailed overview on the origin of the hit, browser, and the host. This plugin is however not perfect for those users who want to clear their affiliate links, Twitter links to come from their domain, track clinks through email or improve the reach of their site through distributing the links on forums, other blogs and comments.

The plugin enables you to make quality and simple URLs on your site that you can redirect to other URLs.
It enables you to create random 3-4 character slugs for your URL as well as allows you to name a custom slug for your URL.
The plugin enables you to filter the report based on the precise link clicked; the date choice or exclusive clicks.
Pretty Link Lite allows you tracks the amount of clicks for each link.
This plugin enables you to track the amount of unique clicks on each link.
It gives you a reporting interface to enable you to see an organized chart of clicks every day.
It lets you see click details as well as IP address, remote host, referring site, browser and operating system.
The plugin supports a spontaneous Javascript/AJAX Admin user interface.
You can allow custom bounds to your scripts using pretty link and enjoy full tracking ability.
This plugin also allows you to except IP Addresses from data.
It enables you to send your pretty links through email right from your WordPress admin.
The WordPress plugin allows you to select temporary 302 or 307 redirections or permanent 301 redirections for pretty links in your site.
It gives a cookie based structure for effective tracking visitor actions across clicks.
This plugin also supports you to make links into groups, generate nofollow/noindex links and switch on/off tracking on each link.
It gives you Pretty Links Bookmarklet.

20 WP SEO HTML Sitemap

WP SEO HTML Sitemap is another SEO plugin for WordPress that gives an HTML sitemap for those who use plugins that do not offer them with HTML sitemap features such as WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast.

You do not need to install WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin to use this plugin. However, you may not be able to gather the full advantages of the plugin’s settings linked to the XML sitemap settings. These are the features of this sitemap plugin:

The plugin spontaneously utilizes all sitemap xml settings from common WordPress SEO by Yoast Plugin
It enables you to choose the number of columns you want to show.
It provides you columns with a masonry effect and functional with all current browsers.
WP SEO HTML Sitemap plugin provides you overwrite, shortcode, prepend and append options for posting on your sitemap page.
It gives fully responsive HTML on all devices.
The output of the plugin supports several languages.
The HTML code developed in the plugin has W3C Markup Validation approval without any errors.
The plugin gives you the ability to deactivate the CSS of the plugin.
It allows you to create an optional link to your sitemap_index.xml file.

Final Thoughts

WordPress SEO plugins are a part and parcel of any website and they make sure that the content published on the site is highly optimized for the search engines. The SEO WordPress plugins also support a wide range of features that allows making sure your on-page SEO is 100% compliant with all Google and other search engines requirements. Due to the SEO requirement, every post or page published on your website should have a properly written meta description with the focus keyword included.

The keyword placement in the content, title and URL (slug) should be properly done. You should also make sure you configure the robot.txt file properly and submit the XML sitemap to the Google search console for ideal indexing of your site. It helps if you can find a useful plugin that does all these work without installing a plugin for every task.

The advanced SEO WordPress plugins work as you expect from them to make sure that your site is linked with Google webmaster tools. It will keep you update about your crawl errors and also let you know whether you are compliant with Google’s SEO standards or not.

SEO is a continuous process, and you should check the health of your website from time to time and fix the problems or errors reported by search console.

To quote one example; Yoast SEO plugin also enables users to link and verify their sites with the Google Webmaster, Bing Webmaster, and Yandex Webmaster. It also enables users to generate an XML site map for submission to search engines.

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Finally, you will often realize that SEO plugins only improve your on-page SEO, there is a lot more effort required for you to rank higher.

The quality of the content published on your site plays an important role in ranking of your website. Another essential off page SEO factor that you need to focus is your backlink profile. This backlink profile includes the number and quality of the links that point to your site.

If the backlinks pointing to your site are spammy in nature, I recommend that disavow them asap, otherwise, there is high chance of getting penalized by Google.

I hope that you liked the post on Best SEO plugin for WordPress. What is your favorite SEO plugin? Do not forget to share your opinion in the comment section.

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Arsalan Rauf

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7 Best WordPress CDN Services in 2023 (Compared)

Last Updated on December 30, 2022 By Arsalan Rauf

Are you looking for the best WordPress CDN service for your website?

If yes, this guide is for you.

A CDN service can speed up your site speed by serving cached static content from servers which are located near your user’s country or geographical location. In this post, I am going to show you the best WordPress CDN services and how CDN is helpful to increase the speed of your website.

What is a CDN?

CDN is also known as Content Delivery Network is a network of servers that deliver cached content from sites based on the geographical location of the users. For more information, you need to see our post about Why you need a CDN for your WordPress blog?

You need to understand that CDN is not a WordPress hosting. So you will need a WordPress hosting service in order to start your website.

How CDN speeds up WordPress?

Usually, your shared or WordPress hosting company serves you from a single geographical location. All the users of your website access the same server.

If your website gets huge traffic, then the user requests will slow your site. During the peak hours of traffic, it can also crash the server which can make your site temporarily unavailable.

Strangeloop discovered after conducting a study, a single second delay in site speed can cause 11% less page views and 7% less conversions.

This is where CDN works well. CDN caches static resources of your server like javascript, stylesheets and images.

When a user requests your website, static resources are served by CDN servers. End of the day, it reduces the load on your hosting server and loads the site faster.

Static content is served using a network of servers. The geographical location of these servers is different around the globe. Every user request is served by the closest server to the location of user. It reduces the page load speed and also makes your website faster for users of all locations.

After this discussion, let’s have a look at some of the top WordPress CDN services.

1. MaxCDN

MaxCDN is the best WordPress CDN in the market. The servers of this company have fast SSD drives and spread across data centers around the world.

It is an easy task to install and setup MaxCDN in WordPress. It works efficiently with famous WordPress caching plugins like WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache.

The control panel of CDN is beginner friendly so you can manage it with ease. It enables you to view reports, purge cache and setup locations etc. MaxCDN also allows the users to add SSL certificate or use a shared SSL certificate to ensure that your cached content is served using HTTPS/SSL.

I believe that it is the most reliable, fast, and beginner friendly WordPress CDN service.

Grade: A+

Pricing: Starting from $9/month

2. Sucuri

Sucuri is a famous website of a security company. They offer a powerful CDN and WordPress firewall that protects your site against malware, DDOS attacks and other WordPress security threats.

Their website application firewall scans all user requests to your site before it reaches your hosting server. This blocks several malware, spam and DDOS attacks.

On the top, their anycast network is spread throughout the world so your users are never far away from the fastest servers. Their firewall has double benefits including security and speed.

Sucuri works with all the famous CDNs available in this list. I recommend MaxCDN on WordPress site. It reduces server load tremendously, and Sucuri’s firewall blocks all bad requests before requesting cached content from MaxCDN.

Grade: A

Pricing Starting from 9.99$/month for a single website.

3. Cloudflare

Cloudflare is also famous for their free CDN that they offer for small sites. However, keep in mind that their free plan has limited DDOS protection and does not support all the features which are available in paid plans.

It is an easy task to setup Cloudflare CDN in WordPress. Cloudflare has a large network of globally distributed servers and it can cache static content automatically.

Cloudflare offers an easy to use control panel to monitor performance and clean up cache.

They also have ‘I am under attack Mode’ feature. It shows users a security page for a few seconds while analyzing the traffic and sending them to your site.

Grade: A

Pricing: Paid plans starting from $20 per month.

4. StackPath

StackPath gives a solid CDN that is built on top growing platform. They have a larger network of servers which is spread throughout the world in many countries.

Their CDN is secure and it protects your site from DDOS attacks with load balancing and blocking features. All plans include site firewall that further reduces server load on your website and boosts the load time of page.

It is easy to setup for website owners because it has developer friendly set of tools and APIs. It enables developers to integrate their websites or apps into the StackPath API and take advantage of its powerful interface.

Grade: B+

Pricing: Starting from $20 per month.

5. KeyCDN

KeyCDN is another good option for a WordPress CDN service. It offers a powerful network of servers available in Europe, Asia, North America and pacific regions.

It is easy to setup on different platforms such as WordPress. Plans also include free and custom SSL, HTTP/2 support, DDOS mitigation, restful API support, SSD servers and powerful control panel.

KeyCDN gives pay as you go plans, it means that you pay for what you use instead of fixed amount on monthly basis. It could reduce pricing for smaller websites but unexpected growth in traffic may also increase the cost.

Grade: B

Pricing: Pay as you go starting from $0.04 per GB. Minimum $40 per year.

6. Rackspace

Rackspace is a famous name in hosting, cloud computing and enterprise level cloud solutions. It also offers a CDN solution built on top of the powerful cloud infrastructure.

Setup is a little more complicated as compared to some other CDN services. Rackspace offers several other cloud solutions as well that makes it a bit complicated for users to find their way.

It does not offer any DDOS mitigation at all. For DDOS protection, you will need to use Sucuri or Cloudflare.

Grade: C

Pricing Pay as you starting from $0.16 per GB.

7. Incapsula

Incapsula is another famous WordPress CDN solution. It has located servers around the world including a data center in South America. It is easy to setup and works well in WordPress caching and with other plugins.

Incapsula offers SSL, 24/7 support, website application firewall and DDOS mitigation as part of their paid CDN plans. It also offers free CDN plan which does not have these features.

Grade: C

Pricing: Paid plans starting from $59 per month.

Conclusion

After carefully going through all these top WordPress CDN services, one cannot deny that MaxCDN is the best WordPress CDN in the market. They offer the most comprehensive set of features at a reasonable price and the setup is also beginner friendly.

I will also suggest Sucuri because it gives access to their cloud proxy and website firewall. You can also use it with other CDNs to boost the performance of your website.

If your budget is tight, free CDN of Cloudflare will do the job for you.

I hope that you liked the post and it will help you to find the best WordPress CDN solution for your site.

Arsalan Rauf

www.greenhatexpert.com

Best Managed WordPress Hosting in 2023

Last Updated on December 30, 2022 By Arsalan Rauf

Best Managed WordPress Hosting in 2023

To manage a WordPress blog is a hard nut to crack. You need to focus on different things including marketing, content, social media and so on. Before you pay attention to these things, you need to focus on the speed of your WordPress website. Whether it is running smoothly or not and your hosting is good enough for you and not creating issues for you.

Nowadays, there are several companies that are giving affordable solutions to their customers. The cost of the hosting is less than 5$ and you will get a shared hosting. It will be a great solution for you to take a start. If you are running a business site, you need a high-quality WordPress hosting to manage your website.

By using the word high-quality hosting, it means best managed WordPress hosting. It will be online for specific WordPress users. So it has become an eminent option among the users of WordPress and developers of websites. You can take a start by using WordPress.com VIP, but there are a number of options available in the market too.

If you want to solve your problem as early as possible so select out of these top 3 hosting providers we recommend and why:

1. WPEngine:

WPEngine is the best managed WordPress hosting for users and it is perfect for everyone. You will get everything you need and you will also get developer friendly tools. Additionally, you can also use WPEngine coupon to get 50% off or discount “wpkube50”.

2. SiteGround:

SiteGround is another best managed WordPress hosting for beginner as well as for advanced users. It is easy to setup and gives you outstanding support. You get support within 10 to 15 minutes and the rates are unshakable. These qualities enable it to become the best host for WordPress bloggers. You do not need a Siteground Coupon to get 60% off because you will get it without using a coupon.

3. FlyWheel:

FlyWheel is another best managed WordPress hosting which you will not change. It is due to the fact that they are perfect for small business, bloggers and agencies. It also gives a number of qualities and unique features including demo site, billing transfer, and blueprint.

Here is a quick comparison of the 3 Best managed WordPress hosting providers listed above (last updated on January 19):

Best managed WordPress hosting gives faster loading times along with better security and professional WordPress support. But quality comes with cost so it is a bit costly than other shared hosting companies. Managed WordPress host’s servers aim to give better and faster performance of WordPress with easy configuration.

In this post, we are going to give you basic information about 8 trusted and best WordPress managed hosting services. So it will be an easy task for you to select the hosting of your own choice for your own business.

What is Managed WordPress Hosting?

Managed WordPress hosting is only designed and optimized for the sake of WordPress websites. In other words, this hosting will take care of all the technical aspects of WordPress for your convenience. It will also enable you to create as well as share the great content with your users. You will get rid of the worries of site updates, up-time, site speed and other problems.

There are several hosting companies which are using their own CDNs and server caching. It will save you from the burden of cache plugins including WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache plugins. It is also suitable for those users who do not possess technical skills and do not have time to manage the server.

The Pros of Managed Hosting for WordPress

Security:

Premium managed hosting will give you bulletproof security. It will give you a tight layer of security which will save you from hacking, DoS, malware and other security attacks.

Expert Support

It will not be a fair statement that shared hosting providers consist of poor support. There are many companies which have staff that is well-trained and have knowledge of WordPress. Still, they cannot give you support of different things including site functionality, performance and WordPress errors etc. But opposite is the case with managed hosting support, they will give you expert WordPress assistance.

Speed:

Speed is a part and parcel of site ranking and there are many things you can do to improve it. It includes the usage of cache plugin and content delivery network including MaxCDN and reduces the size of images.

Most of the best managed WordPress hosting providers enable content caching at server level which gives you relief from external cache plugins. If you will use a normal plan, there is a chance that you may need CDN to improve the speed of website.

Daily Backups:

They take a backup of your website on daily basis. It includes data, content, themes and plugins which you can access from your dashboard. It will save you some bucks if you are paying for backup or maintenance including BlogVault and Vaultpress.

Additionally, they also create a restore point and if you face any problem. You can restore your site to the previous version when your site was fully functional with one click.

Automatic Updates

You do not need to update your WordPress files to the latest version because they will do it for you. Whenever the update is released and you do not have to pay for this update. Your managed WordPress hosting will do it for you.

No Downtime

It will never go down whatever the amount of traffic is, on your website.

The Cons of Managed Hosting for WordPress

Expensive

First of all, it is expensive from shared hosting and there is a marked difference between shared and managed hosting. An average shared hosting plan costs 3.95$ only and managed hosting can be of 30$.

Limitations:

They do not allow you to use any plugin that uses resources. It includes cache plugins including WP super cache and W3 Total cache. We are going to give you a list of disallowed plugins shared by managed hosts.

cPanel:

If you were using shared hosting and now moving to managed hosting, you will feel irritation to use the portal of managed hosting. It is because it is a bit different.

Top Managed WordPress Hosting Providers:

WPEngine

(Loads under 0.26s, starts at $29, and comes with fantastic support)

Managed WordPress Hosting, Perfected WP Engine

WPEngine is one of the best managed WordPress hosting providers in the market. The price is expensive if we compare it to other hosting providers. It is because this company gives you fast loading, secure servers and great support. They have a team which can keep your website secure as well as fast. Therefore, it is the best and popular hosting company. HTC and Foursquare and SoundCloud are using it and they are brands.

It can make backup with one-click and restore process is also available in one-click. This feature is available in all hosting plans. Additionally, it will scan and monitor your website to save it from hacking attempts and in case of hacking, it will fix it free of cost. Additional features

Staging area

It creates a copy of your live website so you can test new plugins and themes before making changes to your live site.

One Click Restore Point

One click restore point is helpful when something goes wrong with your website, theme or plugins. So you can use one click restore point to get the previous version of your website.

No Need for Cache Plugins

WP Engine has custom built ever cache technology which helps WordPress site to make fast enough for Google and other search engines.

Hacking Scans

If your site gets any attack, the company will fix it for you.

Pros:

You can add CDN easily to your site with one click and will get support for WordPress site. They have extremely fast and secure servers. Evercache is integrated and no cache plugins are required. In addition, they do regular attempts to scan hacking attempts in order to make your website secure and safe.

Cons:

WPEngine is costly than other managed WordPress hosting providers. It does not give flexibility in the plugin department.

WPEngine Coupons

Use this WPEngine coupon to get 50% off (wpkube50)

SiteGround

(Loads under .4s, starts at $7.95, and usually responds to support questions in 15 minutes)

SiteGround WordPress Hosting Top Security and Speed Managed

Note: the support of SiteGround is super fast and priority support is not available in startup plan. Premium caching solution and one click staging is also not available in startup plan. So if you want to use these features you need to select GoGeek plan.

SiteGround is another best managed WordPress hosting provider and it is for those who cannot afford expensive hosting providers. SiteGround provides speed solutions and unique WP security at a reasonable price. In addition, it also gives all the shared hosting features including free domain name, WordPress installation, free WordPress migration, support and email accounts for 3.95$ only for one month.

Other features include:

Unique WordPress Autoinstaller— Easy to setup.
Autoupdater — It will update WordPress Core files and all of your plugins
WordPress SuperCacher — To improve the site performance.
WordPress staging — to test the new features before making it live.
HHVM— to improve site speed and it will load faster in 200ms only than PHP. This feature is available only for cloud hosting.

WP-CLI comes pre-installed — to do multisite management if you want to.

Pros:

Gives autoupdate, autoinstall, staging features and caching for a low price. It also has WP-CLI pre-installed, Git and WordPress migration without additional cost. The security team is active and they regularly run security checks.

Cons:

It comes with Cloudflare and if you want to use MaxCDN, you will have to use plugins like WP total cache or W3 Total cache.

Flywheel

(Loads under 1s, costs $15, amazing dashboard, a lot of useful features, and a ton of happy customers)

Flywheel Managed WordPress Hosting for Designers and Agencies

Flywheel is another best managed WordPress hosting which is designed by creative minds to fulfill your needs. It focuses on your workflow and makes the working of web designers smooth. There are features like billing transfers to your clients, easy collaboration and staging sites etc. In addition, you can manage all your websites with one dashboard and it is an easy task.

It’s Like a Design Party on The Internet

Flywheel has staff of WordPress experts and most of them are designers so do not worry about your problems. The prices are reasonable and suit your needs. It includes pay per site plan which costs you 15$ per month. Additionally, there are bulk plans are also available for you if you are a serious developer. It will cost you 100$ per month. Custom plans are also available.

Key Features:

Lightning speed– Designed specifically for WordPress sites and has unique features that affect your website with CDN.
Nightly backups –It will automatically make backup of your website on daily or nightly basis.
Around the clock security – it will monitor your websites constantly to avoid hacking attempts and malware and will fix the problems free of cost.
More intuitive SFTP – they are working and collaborating with other designers to make the task easier.

Pros:

it loads your page quickly and you can use plugins of your own choice. Flywheel has a highly qualified staff which is expert in WordPress which can take care of your problems and needs.

Cons:

It is also more expensive than shared hosting and it will be a bit difficult to learn a new dashboard. According to our point of view, it’s dashboard is super easy to use.

Flywheel coupon:

Use flywheel coupon to get 20% off “flykube”

Bluehost WP Hosting

(Loads under 2s, starts at $12.49, and comes with bad customer support)

Optimized Hosting for WordPress - Fast, Secure, Simple - Bluehost

Bluehost is another best managed WordPress hosting provider which is available at reasonable price. The basic plan of Bluehost gives 100 million visitors per month with 2GB RAM, 30GB storage and 30GB backup storage. It has enhanced cPanel, 24/7 support from WordPress experts and you can add 5 WP sites. It also offers sitelock CDN with SiteLock pro. The minimum price is 2.95$ for the first month and will cost 24.99$/month after the first month.

Features of Bluehost:

VPS-based — Built on a VPS platform, gives enhanced performance and site speed.
Includes ManageWP — Can Manage and migrate multiple WordPress sites all from within one hosting plan.
Robust security— Gives SiteLock, an advanced CDN, and SiteLock WAF.
Expert support — All hosting plans include 24/7 access to WordPress experts.
Enhanced cPanel— Makes the transition from shared to managed hosting more seamless when working within a familiar interface.

Pros:

Affordable, VPS, SiteLock security, and Manage WP for added convenience. Gives 24/7 support with enhanced cPanel.

Cons:

It is more expensive than some other managed WordPress hosting providers. It may not give as many features as compared to other plans and may not suitable for largest developers.

Kinsta

Kinsta Managed WordPress Hosting - Powered By Google Cloud

Kinsta is another fast and best managed WordPress hosting for WordPress users powered by Google cloud platform. The best feature of this hosting provider is unlimited visitors and unlimited page views on all plans. If you are a beginner in online business so you will not have to move to another hosting plan if your website starts receiving more traffic.

Kinsta has a premium quality customer service which is working behind the scenes to give the best results. Their team consists of professional developers who work with WordPress on daily basis.

Some other features on offer with Kinsta hosting include:

Free Migrations– it gives uninterrupted service with free site migration for multiple websites. You need to send the request and Kinsta will take care of the rest. The dashboard of Kinsta will enable you to monitor the migrations and you can also manage them on your phone.
Next-Gen Infrastructure– The company is powered by the Google Cloud Platform that offers automatic scaling, LXD containers, SSH access, PHP 7, WP-CLI automation, and Git. It also has a server level caching solution which can speed up your website and you do not have to use any caching plugin.
Top Notch Security– Kinsta is based on multi-layer protocols on the back-end and this quality makes the site more secure 24/7. It also monitors your website every minute 1440 times in a day in order to run it smoothly for you.

Pros:

Powered by Google cloud platform with server level caching service for your WP site that gives an outstanding performance. The support team is dedicated and works around the clock and also monitor your website on daily basis. Additionally, they do not charge extra for extra page view or visitor.

Cons:

Kinsta has service charges that starts from 100$ per month on their business plan 1.

Pagely Hosting

(Loads under 0.09s, starts at $499, and overall perfect hosting for big businesses)

Pagely is a famous and best managed WordPress hosting that pay attention to security. It focuses on high class security and they also pay attention to the site speed so that they can load faster. It is replete with features including automatic plugin and WordPress updates, daily backups, press Armor custom WP security configuration that will keep the harm at arm’s length.

In addition, you can use any app or plugin of your choice. The price starts at 499$/month for 30 websites and 200GB bandwidth with all features. It includes:

Convenient updates: Automatic WordPress Core and plugin upgrades with minimal interaction needed.
Varnish caching: Advanced varnish caching layer that loads the site in millisecond.
Free reign on plugins: Use almost any plugin or theme you want to use.
Complete site scans: Gives real-time malware scanning and removal plus redundant firewalls and DDoS protection.
PRESSCDN: This service starts at $9/month.

Pros:

Security focused, rich in features, best managed wordpress hosting with open attitude towards themes and plugins. It offers varnish caching and PRESSCDN to load site quickly.

Cons:

It is more costly than some other managed hosting providers.

Pressable

(Loads under 2s and starts at $25)

Managed WordPress Hosting from Pressable

It is also known as Zippykid, it is a unique managed hosting service for WordPress and it gives 100% customer satisfaction. Therefore, it is rated no 1 in customer satisfaction. It has an appealing list of clients and testimonials, and the services are available on custom Reckspace hardware. The price plan begins with 25$ per month and it can handle 15k shared pageviews per month.

All plans include the following features:

Rackspace Hybrid cloud— The best servers to store your sites.
Daily backups— Your content will always be backed up automatically and in time.
SFTP access— Secure file transfer protocol so your data will remain safe.
SSL support— So you can set up shop and keep your customers secure, too.
Malware scanning and removal— Never feel the effects of malicious hackers again.

Pros:

It is high quality and reliable hosting for businesses and developers. It includes SSL, CDN, malware scanning and removal for convenience.

Cons:

When we consider it’s price, it may not offer the best managed WordPress hosting plans and not suitable for those who want extraordinary features.

WebSynthesis

Synthesis Managed WordPress Hosting by StudioPress

Websynthesis is another best managed WordPress hosting and it was started by CopyBlogger Media. They have produced the most popular products on the internet. It includes Genesis Theme Framework and ScribeSEO. Synthesis is using NGINX architecture to maintain the traffic and it consumes 1/8 of the resources. It has MediaTemple dedicated servers and the plan begins at 47$ per month.

Some of its features include:

High quality servers— Get superior uptime and page load speed.
SEO— Keyword and social media research included.
Robust security — Enhanced security defenses.
Content marketing — Content and website optimization included.
Site Sensor uptime monitoring — Keep tabs on site uptime at all times.

Pros:

It uses NGINX architecture in order to load the site faster and gives SEO and content marketing tools. Uses site sensor uptime monitoring and enhanced security features for ultimate protection of your site and content.

Cons:

The price tag of the product is higher than other managed WordPress hosting and can go out of reach of newer developers.

WordPress.com VIP

Services – WordPress.com VIP Enterprise content management

WordPress.com VIP is not normal managed WordPress hosting provider. It can cost 5000$ per month and it is a wonderful choice for high traffic websites including MSNBC, TechCrunch, GigaOM and Time. It is also ideal for those people who are looking for enterprise level solution.

Some features include:

SaaS— Turnkey infrastructure lets you build your site with confidence.
CDN— Security is a top priority.
Hourly backups— You will never lose a bit of data.
Flat pricing— Pay monthly rate to get unlimited traffic, bandwidth, and storage without paying a penny more.
24/7 support— will answer your most pressing middle-of-the-night WordPress questions.

Pros:

It has SaaS, CDN, backups, 24/7 support all for a flat price.

Cons:

It is suitable for enterprise customers because the price tag is too much. Additionally, it is not appropriate for new developers and smaller website developers.

Do You Really Need Managed WordPress Hosting?

Best managed WordPress hosting is a perfect for both small and enterprise/high traffic website owners. If you are a blogger and developer, SiteGround is the best solution for you. The cost is less than other managed hosting companies and gives high quality support.

First of all, you need to know your achievement and priorities. If you are thinking to create a website that will drive a lot of traffic to your site, you need to get a managed host for it. It is because it will allow you enough traffic volume with stability for sites especially WordPress websites. If you are building a site for the first time and you purchase a managed host it may not be helpful.

You need to consider the customization and level of support you want. Shared hosting gives one click installations for your convenience, these can preload your website with settings that you may not like. Especially if you are a developer. If you will use a managed host, it will give you an opportunity to make smart decision while installation including security. It depends on your approach and achievement, what you want to do?

My Top Picks

After reviewing all the managed hosting providers, we consider every hosting provider as the best managed WordPress hosting. Let’s have a bird’s eye view of it.

SiteGroudn is for developers and bloggers who need features including SSL support, staging area, git integration at low price. They offer free migration, pretty inexpensive, and support team is quick. Most of the questions are answered within one or two hour. Live chat guys are not knowledgeable. So you have to go through ticket support system for technical questions instead of live chat group.

FlyWheel is for people who are not developers. Flywheel came into existence pretty late but they established themselves quickly. They offer managed hosting solution for WordPress, designers, small business owners and bloggers etc and easy to use. If you do not want to stuck with technical issues choose Flywheel. The dashboard of this company is very easy to use as compare to other companies. In short, Flywheel is not for developers but for those who can configure and setup WordPress sites.

Are you a developer? Use Pagely but they are expensive, it costs $499 / month).

Last year, Pagely had moved their servers to Amazon and since then they are providing world-class services for small blogs, membership sites, WooCommerce stores, SaaS solutions and global corporate sites. Their infrastructure technology has automatically daily backups, HHVM, built-in redundancy, real time malware monitoring, SSL acceleration, Press CDN, Press Armour and developer friendly tools including SSH, WP-CLI, GIT, Staging, REST API etc.

If you want everything, use WPEngine or Kinsta. These options are for you if you do not want to compromise the quality of support and developer friendly tools. We have been using WPEngine for a long time and did not face any trouble.

You can share your hosting providers and ideas in the comments section.

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**Data for speed tests data was taken from designbombs.com

Arsalan Rauf

Name	Loads Under:	Suitable for (visits / month)	Cost per month
WPEngine	0.26s	25,000	$29
SiteGround	0.4s	10,000	$9.95
Flywheel	1s	5,000	$15

Mobile SEO guide in 2023 – The Definitive Guide

CHAPTER 1: Mobile Optimization 101

What Is Mobile SEO?

Why Is Mobile SEO Important?

Is “SEO” Now About Optimizing for “Mobile SEO”?

What Is Google’s Mobile-First Index?

Is Google’s Mobile-First Index a Big Deal?

What Does Google Consider “Mobile”?

CHAPTER 2: How to Implement a Mobile Website That Ranks in Google

When It Comes to Mobile, You’ve Got 3 Options

First of all, you have got separate URLs which is also known as“m” configuration.

Next, we have Dynamic Serving.

Finally, we have Responsive Design.

CHAPTER 3: How to Mobile Optimize Your Site

Use Google’s Mobile Usability Test

Let Google Crawl Everything

Put the Kibosh on Interstitial Popups

How Does Your Responsive Site Actually Look? Check Out This Cool Tool

Use The Mobile Version of “Fetch as Google”

Let Mobile Users See It All

In the meantime, here’s my take:

CHAPTER 4: How to Optimize Your Mobile Sitefor UX Signals

Master Mobile Sitespeed

Make Your Content Insanely Easy to Read on Phones

Use HTML5 For Video and Animated Content

Don’t Forget the “Viewport Content” Tag

Implement These 3 Quick Mobile UX Hacks

Make Header Images Really Small

Use Lots of “Negative” Space

Put Social Share Buttons as a Tab Bar

CHAPTER 5:Advanced Mobile SEO Tips and Best Practices

Fix Your Mobile CTR, Get More Traffic

Turn Mobile Donkeys Into Unicorns

Boost Your Mobile Page Speed With These 3 Tips

Optimize Title and Description Tags for Mobile SERPs

Should You Implement AMP?

Does it make sense to use AMP?

Use Schema Structured Data To Stand Out in Mobile SERPs

Now It’s Your Turn

Best Online Grammar Checker Tools for WordPress

Why Add a Grammar Checker Tool for WordPress?

Ginger

After the Deadline

Hemingway Proofreading Tool for Writers

Language Tool

Jetpack

20 Best WordPress SEO Plugins For Higher Rankings in 2023

Best WordPress SEO Plugins

How to Choose a Good WordPress SEO Plugin

Best WordPress SEO Plugins

1 WordPress SEO by Yoast

2 All In One SEO Pack

3 SEO Ultimate

4 The SEO Framework

5 SEO SQUIRRLY™

6 All In One Schema.org Rich Snippets

7 Smush Image Compression and Optimization

8 Broken Link Checker

9 Rankie – WordPress Rank Tracker

10 WordPress Ping Optimizer

11 W3 Total Cache

12 Redirection

13 WooCommerce – All in One SEO Pack

14 Glue for Yoast SEO & AMP

15 SEO Optimized Images

16 EWWW Image Optimizer

17 Simple 301 Redirects

18 Google XML Sitemaps

19 Pretty Link Lite

20 WP SEO HTML Sitemap

Final Thoughts

What is a CDN?

How CDN speeds up WordPress?

1. MaxCDN

2. Sucuri

5. KeyCDN

7. Incapsula

Conclusion

Best Managed WordPress Hosting in 2023

1. WPEngine:

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