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Initial setup for WordPress SEO<\/h2>
About 53% of website traffic<\/a> comes from organic search, showing just how important it is for bringing visitors to your site.<\/p> Before you incorporate more advanced SEO techniques, let’s get the basics out of the way first.<\/p> A reliable hosting provider is the backbone of your WordPress site. It directly impacts your site’s performance, security, and overall user experience.<\/p> While there are a lot of WordPress hosting providers out there, only a few of them are recommended by WordPress.org<\/a> themselves, and that includes Hostinger.<\/p> This is mostly because we provide one of the fastest WordPress hosting solutions on the market.<\/p> With data centers located across four continents, you can easily choose the closest server location to your audience for faster content delivery.<\/p> Our WordPress Business plan<\/a> and above come with a content delivery network<\/strong> (CDN). It acts as a network of global remote servers that stores copies of your website content.<\/p> So, the next time users visit your site, your content will be served from the nearest CDN server to improve loading speed.<\/p> You will also benefit from an object caching feature that can improve WordPress response times by up to threefold.<\/p> One of the main ways to improve SEO is to invest in fast, reliable hosting with good uptime and quick support. The monthly Business plan costs $13.99\/month<\/strong>. But if you’re in it for the long game, we recommend going for the 48-month plan at just $3.99\/month<\/strong>.<\/p> In other words, by the time your site reaches its fourth anniversary, you will have spent only $191.52<\/strong> out of the initial $671.52<\/strong>—resulting in a significant $480<\/strong> in savings!<\/p> In addition, we also offer a 30-day money-back guarantee. So, your investment is safe either way.<\/p> WordPress includes an option to discourage search engines from indexing a particular website. This can be useful for sites under development, private blogs, or content the owner wants to avoid appearing in search engine results.<\/p> When enabled, your web pages may not appear in search results, meaning they will not generate traffic.<\/p> Unless your website is under maintenance, ensure you turn this visibility setting off.<\/p> To double-check, log in to your WordPress Dashboard and head to Settings <\/strong>→ Reading<\/strong>. Find the Search engine visibility<\/strong> checkbox and ensure it’s unchecked.<\/p>1. Choose a fast WordPress hosting provider<\/h3>
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\nOur WordPress site has been hosted with Hostinger for more than two years now. When we first migrated from Bluehost, we were initially shocked at how much better the lighthouse scores were and how much better our site performed on Google search results.<\/p>\n ![\"Editor\"](\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/88b69b60306334ff1af8f89ef3b3080e27e83cce128d9ecc96235cc51c28f8bd?s=65&d=mm&r=g\")
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