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Running a WordPress website can be a complex undertaking. You have to educate yourself in many areas: from hosting over security and site speed optimization to web design, SEO, and producing content.

To help and support you in making the most out of your WordPress site, this collection of articles contains everything from WordPress beginner tutorials over plugin reviews to step-by-step how-to posts. You'll get an in-depth education on how to improve your site and have fun while doing it, pinky promise!

Last updated on January 17, 2022, by Nick Schäferhoff No Comments (Yet)

26 Key WordPress Skills You Need for a Successful Website (2022)

In this post, I want to talk about skills that will make you much more effective at running a WordPress-based website. These days, websites are super important assets for most businesses and running a successful WordPress site requires a lot of different abilities. That’s because it involves so many aspects, from site maintenance over optimization to marketing.

When running a site by yourself or with a very small team, you have to wear a lot of different hats to make things happen. It’s why huge publications have teams that each concentrate on different aspects of site management. If you are not at that point, you need to prioritize learning what is most important.

In order to help you do that, below you find a long list of essential WordPress skills. They are ordered by beginner, intermediate, and expert-level skills and are based on my own experience of working with WordPress for 10+ years. A lot of them come from mistakes that I have made myself and/or seen others and my clients make.

Last updated on January 17, 2022, by Nick Schäferhoff 2 Comments

6 Best (Free) SEO Plugins for WordPress (2021 Comparison)

Regular readers of this blog will be aware that, over the past months, I have published a series of in-depth reviews of WordPress SEO plugins. It started out with the question in mind “what is the best WordPress SEO plugin?”.

For years, my answer would have reflexively been Yoast SEO. It’s basically all I used at that point. However, after going through what else the WordPress sphere has to offer, that’s not necessarily the case anymore.

To find out which WordPress SEO plugin really deserves the title “of best”, in this post, I will pit Yoast SEO vs Rank Math, All-in-One SEO, SEOPress, Squirrly, and The SEO Framework. I will compare them on the grounds of setup, features, usability, and premium offers. You can also find links to the standalone review of each in case you want to learn even more.

Last updated on August 9, 2021, by Nick Schäferhoff No Comments (Yet)

SEOPress Plugin Review: A Deep Dive Into Every Feature (2021)

We have made it. This is the final entry of the WordPress SEO plugin review series. And in this last installment, I will review SEOPress.

In contrast to other entries in this series (Yoast SEO, All in One SEO, The SEO Framework, Squirrly SEO, Rank Math), the plugin user base is relatively small. At t the time of this writing, is has 100,000+ active installations.

However, those who use SEOPress seem to really love it: 95% of ratings are five stars. Let’s see what they are so excited about.

Last updated on December 9, 2021, by Nick Schäferhoff 2 Comments

Rank Math SEO In-Depth Plugin Review (2021): How to Use Rank Math

$Rank Math SEO In-Depth Plugin Review (2021): How to Use Rank Math$

I’m going to admit it, I am really quite excited for this review of Rank Math SEO. During my preliminary research, it was the plugin I got most excited about, so I am thrilled to take a detailed look at it.

I am not the only one with this opinion. The plugin directory shows that Rank Math has 800,000+ active installations and people have given it 4.9 out of 5 stars, which is pretty impressive. Only two other plugins that I tested so far managed to score the same rating.

(By the way, if you haven’t read my other reviews yet, check them out here: Yoast SEO, All in One SEO, The SEO Framework, Squirrly SEO, SEOPress.)

In the following, we will examine Rank Math’s installation, setup and configuration options, features, and premium offers together. The post will end with a list of pros and cons and a final verdict.

Ready to kick of this Rank Math plugin review? Then let’s go.

Last updated on July 29, 2021, by Nick Schäferhoff 4 Comments

Squirrly SEO Complete Plugin Review (2021): Should You Use It?

In this post, I will review Squirrly SEO. After The SEO Framework last time, this is the second SEO plugin in this series that I have genuinely never used before (the other plugins I reviewed are Yoast SEO, All in One SEO, Rank Math, and SEOPress). Consequently, I’m looking forward to exploring it with the eyes of a newcomer.

As for the plugin itself, Squirrly SEO currently boasts north of 90,000 installs at a rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars. It describes itself as an “A.I.-based Private SEO Consultant. In a Plugin. Powered by Machine Learning and Cloud Services.”. It’s also the first plugin that is compatible with other SEO extensions. Consequently, you can run it in addition to, not just instead of, any other plugin in this series.

I’m excited to see what it has to offer in terms of features, settings, premium offers, and pros and cons.

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