This post looks at what types of things you should write in your image ALT descriptions, and how to balance the needs of both search engine optimization and accessibility for the best of both worlds!
Imagine if you tried to learn how to crawl, walk, run, ski, drive, cycle, and surf all at the same time. Or if when you started learning to read as a small child, the first book you were given was a Shakespeare play and you were told to write a dissertation and give a talk on your work at a conference by the end of the month.
It would be impossible right? You’d end up frustrated, confused, and overwhelmed.
But this is what a lot of bloggers try to do. It’s normal to be excited about blogging, but trying to learn everything straight away is just going to pull you in a bunch of different directions. Without delving deep enough into anything specific, or sticking at one thing long enough to make a difference, you’ll be spinning plates without getting anywhere. Not only does it set you up for getting frustrated with yourself and your results, it’s the fastest path to burnout.
One of the plugins we suggest in 7 Free Must-Have WordPress Plugins is Yoast SEO. Yoast has a ton of great features to help you get your search engine optimization on track. It also makes it much easier to manage and add things that normally require messing around with code, like preventing pages being indexed by Google.
Yoast also has some features that rate you based on a series of traffic lights, with green being good, orange being okay, and red being room for improvement.
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A while back WordPress introduced a “Site Health” screen, which takes your site through a number of different status checks. In this post, we take you through what each check means, how important it is, and what (if anything!) you need to do.
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