WordPress is a strong SEO platform out of the box — but "out of the box" is not "optimised". Most WordPress sites leave easy ranking gains on the table. Here is the checklist we run on every WordPress site.
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How to optimise WordPress for SEO: the checklist we use
WordPress is strong for SEO out of the box — but out of the box is not optimised. The technical, speed, on-page and plugin checklist we run on every WordPress site.
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