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Adding Meta Info With Yoast

DESCRIPTION

Learn how to utilize Yoast SEO plugin on your WordPress site.

Timestamps:

  • 0:00 Intro
  • 0:17 Plugin Location
  • 0:43 Meta Information
  • 0:56 Outro

Transcript:

Tina: 0:00
This video is going to show you how to use the Yoast SEO plugin in WordPress. That is a free plugin. There is a pro version that is paid, but you get quite a bit of work done by just using the free version.

0:17
You'll see if it's installed on your site. It'll have the Y icon and SEO here and be located in the left admin bar. In terms of where you're going to go to access that Yoast information on your pages and posts, we're going to just open up the sample post here from the default WordPress install, and then you'll see here there is a Yoast SEO section.

0:43
It's going to show you information like the key phrase, and you can kind of get into that. Generally, the most important thing you're going to look for is adding your SEO title and also your meta description.

0:56
Then you also have the information like if you do have the paid version where it does SEO analysis and so forth. Generally, if you're looking for adding your meta title and meta description, which are the most important items for SEO, if you're doing the SEO work for yourself, this is where you're going to locate those two items.