WordPress initially started out as a ‘blog-only’ platform and now that it has extended as a full-fledged Content Management System, it remains a popular blogging platform. WordPress.com blogs have over 409 million[1] monthly viewers who looked at 22.4 billion pages per month this past year.
This standalone fact is enough to justify the popularity of WordPress as people’s favorite blogging platform.
WordPress does provide a lot of helpful features for blogging enthusiasts who are looking to start their own blogging website. However, inexperienced bloggers do commit some mistakes in spite of all the online help available. In this blog post, we will review the most common SEO WordPress mistakes that bloggers commit out of either ignorance or sheer carelessness. Regardless of the reason, these mistakes affect the search engine ranking of their blogs and even their online reputation.
So, let’s explore seven of the most common SEO mistakes made by WordPress bloggers.
1. Not using the right SEO optimized blogging theme
If you are new to blogging, you might have missed out on the information that WordPress offers SEO optimized themes for your blogs which are highly helpful when it comes to the quest of online rankings. If you are not using an SEO optimized blogging theme, you are obviously a step behind than the others who are relying on them. There are a lot of SEO optimized blogging themes for WordPress that you could choose from such as Divi, MagPlus, Jevelin etc. [2][3][4]
2. Missing on an SEO optimized contact form
Even if your WordPress blog is in its initial phase, it needs to provide a point of contact to its followers, even if they are less in the count