How To Add Meta Title & Description For WordPress Pages (SEO For Beginners)

Today, I dive into this SEO tutorial for beginners and share how to add meta titles and meta descriptions for your WordPress pages and posts.

By adding and optimising your website pages and posts meta titles and meta descriptions, you will be able to rank higher on search engines like Google Search. You will also drive more relevant clicks when people find your website online.

► These are the videos I mentioned in this SEO tutorial for beginners:

Learn how to backup your WordPress website:

Learn how to use Yoast SEO for beginners:

► Today we navigate through the below chapters for this SEO tutorial for beginners:

0:00 Intro
01:22 Getting started
01:39 Install Yoast SEO plugin
02:04 Back up your website
03:03 Setup Yoast SEO plugin
03:46 Select page or post
04:23 Add your focus keyphrase (keyword)
05:46 Preview title & description on Google
06:23 Add SEO title (Meta title)
07:13 Add URL slug
07:57 Add meta description
08:58 SEO analysis section
10:05 Outro

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[siphongabase]

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[MarcusMorrow-pjhc]

simple, to the point and relevant, what more can a man ask for. Thank you!

[janainawaechter]

Thank you so much, direct to the point and practical!

[pablogauna]

Thank for this tutotial! That's what I was looking for :D

[TeesMoneyTips]

Thanks for this tutorial I will link it in my blog to help me readers

[Candaces]

Excellent content
Thank you for sharing

[joannapraises]

You mentioned at 5:32 a video about how to do keyword research to choose the focus keyphrase needed. I don't see it in the description, would you please provide the link?

[armandogonzalez]

Excellent information, now I know how to do it

[green_Oak]

очень долго искал как его верно настроить) в итоге Вы очень помогли)
с субтитрами я понял очень быстро, и голос у Вас приятный)

[LEO-AI]

This looks really useful. Would you happen to know a way I could pull out things like description, thumbnail and tags from a video without having to write these out myself?

[jorgeluissantibanezmiyahir]

Hey hello, is there a way to do this all at one, see all the pages ?

[davidarias]

Thanks for your video, what do I do if Google doesn't show the meta description I'm writing in Yoast? It's been more than 3 weeks now and it still hasn't changed.

[chelseajack]

hi my seo score is all green but when i type site: and my website it only shows two pages rather than the 4

[fercanovas_]

when i search my website on google appears my first meta description instead of what i put with the plugin, help;(

[SarahGraves-ikkn]

Hi I'm getting, "Updating failed. Could not update the meta value of site-sidebar-layout in database" What is the remedy for this?

[mrdeep]

I use elementor, can I still use yoast SEO or are these two different things?

[EnglishwithSam]

Hi man, first of all, thx a lot for providing us with this great info, really appreciate it!
I have a question, I downloaded astra theme, and have chosen construction template from it, my question is can I add products in that template's pages for sale? I just got conduced, thx in advance

[everythingprintly]

Need help with my yoast SEO doesn't show "search appearance" option.

[HassanHussain-hgbb]

How many key phrases can we use in the title?
I've got a tool that tells me which keywords are being used the most on google, so I have a number of keywords with relevance I can use.

[vidadurant]

Hey Stewart, how long does It take for a Meta Description to be seen on Google? I tried editing my Meta Description but it seems not to be updating or does it take a few days for it to appear on Google? Please let me know thanks.