ProSmartDesign

This plugin was a recent discovery for me but it’s now something that I add as standard to all the sites I design.

SEO – as I mentioned in a previous issue of this WordPress series – stands for Search Engine Optimisation and is basically the science of putting words and links into your website that get you listed higher up the organic search engine rankings.

Smart Links are a clever little idea whereby a program checks your site and links all the appropriate words to other parts of the site. For example, if your site has a page titled ‘Weddings’, every time the program finds the word ‘weddings’ in text on other pages, it will link those words to the page titled ‘Weddings’. This means that your site is more dynamic and user friendly and also more popular with Google, as the entire site will contain more links (the currency of search engines).

The program I use is called SEO Smart Links and it’s a plugin for the WordPress blogsites I create. To install it, you can go to the plugin site or simply go to ‘Plugins’ on your WordPress Dashboard and click ‘Add New’. Then type in ‘SEO Smart Links’ and click ‘Install’ next to the SEO Smart Links plugin.

Once installed, you’ll see the settings for it under the heading ‘Settings’ (surprisingly) which are fairly self-explanatory.

If you pair this plugin with other SEO plugins like the All-in-One SEO Pack, you’ll see your site start to climb the Google rankings pretty quickly. Good luck and as always, if you need any help or advice, get in touch with us.