How to Add Keyword and Meta Description in WordPress

Do you want to add a keyword and meta description?

SEO keywords and meta descriptions plays a vital role in search results. They help to improve SEO of post as well as boost the rank of your website. It’s extremely easy to add both meta-attributes in WordPress.

In this article, we’ll cover how to add keyword and meta descriptions in WordPress.

Why Add Keyword and Meta Description in WordPress

SEO title, keywords and meta description are very crucial meta element. They help your post to look clean in the search engine and also increase the ranking of your post. They also help to give all information related to your page and post to search engine. Meta description is useful for attracting lots of visitors to your website.

Add Keyword and Meta Description with Plugin

You can easily add a focus keyword and meta description in WordPress with the help of the search engine optimization plugin.

Step 1: Install and Activate Yoast Plugin

First of all, you have to install and activate Yoast plugin. Yoast is easy to use and a powerful SEO plugin. Yoast makes it possible to add both meta tags and descriptions without any knowledge of code.

Once you have finished the installation, you can start Yoast’s SEO configuration wizard to help you through set up the plugin for optimal SEO settings.

Step 2: Add Meta Description 

Meta description is a short description displayed below link in search engine results. In order to add meta description to your post, navigate to the Post>>All Post. Then edit the post for which you want to add a meta description. After that, scroll down to the bottom and click on edit snippet.

You’ll see fields such as SEO title and slug. The SEO title is the clickable headline that is displayed in the search engine page. It is the best place to add the focus keyword. Slug is a user-friendly part present after the domain name in URL. Add meta description on the box. Make sure that description also contains keyword in it. The appearance of a green line indicates that the length of the meta description is optimal, while the orange color indicates the opposite of it.

Step 3: Add a Focus Keyword

The focus keyword is a particular word or phrase that describes the content of the page. After you have installed the Yoast plugin, it’s time to add a focus keyword. Make sure that the keyword is a description of the article and is presented in the article itself.

Once again, go to the post>>all post and open the targeted post. Now, scroll down in the Yoast SEO section. You’ll find the focus keyword field right under the snippet preview. Enter the suitable primary keyword in the box. You can also add the related keyword below it. 

Now that you have added keywords and meta descriptions to your WordPress post, you have improved the SEO of your post.

Wrapping Up

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