From the course: Technical WordPress SEO (2019)

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Yoast SEO

Yoast SEO

- In order to dive in to technical SEO, we need to start by identifying a do it all plugin that we want to use. One of the most popular options is Yoast SEO. And it gives you ton of flexibility over your sites content, how you manage your meta descriptions, and even a way to build out your schema and sitemaps. Now, Yoast is really focused on being friendly to beginners and most of its advanced functionality is tucked away in a menu. I'm going to install Yoast to show you some of its core features. So, from our WordPress dashboard, I'll choose plugins on the left hand navigation, and add new. In the upper right hand corner, we'll do a search for Yoast, and install now. We'll go ahead and activate the plugin, and then let's take a look. Yoast adds a menu option in the bottom left hand corner, so I'll hover over that and select general. Now, Yoast is free. However, they do have an SEO Premium option and while…

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