How to Make Your Website SEO-Friendly When You Can’t Code | Neil Patel

A lot of people think that you have to know coding when it comes to doing SEO. They fear that they won't be able to optimize their site because they know nothing about HTML or coding and they're going to get paralyzed. But there's a lot of tools that you can help you with the really important parts of SEO without you having to lift a finger when it comes to coding. Today I'm going to break down how make your website SEO-friendly when you can't even code.

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So the first way that you can make your website more SEO-friendly is schema generators.

By having it, it can drastically increase your CTR compared to your competitors when they don't have it. Especially let's say you're selling a product and you have the review rating there and people know yours is a five star out of five based on 500 reviews, whereas your competitors, they don't have any of that data in their schema markup.

Well, luckily there are schema generating tools out there that can help you out. Here are some good ones.

Google Structured Data Helper. This tool allows you to visually tag elements on your webpage and generate proper markup.

Another one is Schema Markup Generator. This tool helps you create code that you can simply copy and paste into your site's HTML.

The next thing you need to do is start leveraging XML sitemap generators.

And you're probably wondering, why is a site map important for SEO? Well, if Google has a hard time crawling your site, then those pages may not be indexed. If Google has a easy time crawling your site, you're likely to have more pages that are indexed, and more of those pages are probably going to rank higher.

Now, with a sitemap, what this is doing is telling Google, hey, here's a whole list of all the pages that are on my site, and please index them. They may not index them all, but you got a better chance of them crawling your site and indexing it.

If you can't forget out how to create a XML sitemap, no worries, there's Screaming Frog. This is software that can help you with a variety of SEO activities, including creating XML sitemaps.

If you're on WordPress, you can just use the Yoast SEO plugin. But if you're not on WordPress, check out Screaming Frog, because it's going to help you. And once you generate that sitemap, make sure you submit it to Google Search Console because this will tell Google, hey, go crawl all of these pages.

Next, you need a CDN to speed up your time. Faster sites create better user experiences, and those pages rank better on Google. Google has even said that they look at a load time of a site to determine its ranking as well.

So CDN is a content delivery network, and what that does is put your site throughout servers all across the world.

And there's this company called Cloudflare that helps put your site on all the servers throughout the world. Now, what's cool about Cloudflare is they have a free plan. So you can get started for free, and this can help improve your load times, which in theory will help improve your rankings over time as well without you being a developer.

Next, I want to go over SEO and content optimization tools. A lot of times I receive the question, "How can I optimize my site for SEO?" Well, if you're not sure on how to optimize your site for specific keywords, having a tool to help you optimize your site can be a virtual lifesaver.

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[kunikjindal]

Neil you are amazing. But I still facing issues of review snippet on website please reply

[Amitlalshah]

Yoast SEO does many things automatically but I don't know which tasks are performed by Yoast SEO plugin and what are things required from my side manually??
Neil, please help me

[ashaytamrakar]

Is there any negative impact on site, if I submit multiple sitemaps to google search console?

[klassykreationscompany]

Thank you for sharing these tips. I have an elementor WP website and my web designer installed monsterinsights plugin rather than yaost plugin should I still use the rankmath tool?

[its.nivesh]

For TIP5:
You mentioned about wordpress plugins only Yoast and Rankmath. Please give examples for non wordpress based ecommerce websites. Thanks

[harishnemade]

How often should I submit sitemap to GSC? After a Single change? Or after new blog post? Or after any major change? Help☹️

[benjamin]

that schema markup generator link is perfect, thanks for letting us know this tool exists Neil. I have been meaning to learn about how to add this script to my pages but have been too busy, this simple tool saved me so much time. Stoked with this, thanks again Neil, hope you and your family are safe.

[chrisgamlin]

Following on from my last question re. Shopify sites... does Cloudflare work for Shopify too or is there an alternative that can help page speed load times please?

[sunitashukla]

Hey Neil can I switch from yoast to Rankmath without affecting my sitemap that is of yoast currently and is also submitted on console

[sunitashukla]

One more question is that according to you which is the best one yoast or rank math please tell one

[ghanshyampala]

What if a website have high da pa but no to very less traffic?

IN THIS CASE HOW TO GET MORE TRAFFIC ?

[s.m.shahriarahmed]

Hey Neil Patel, Thank you for your informative video. I want to know about "all in one SEO pack" is it good ?

[willfletch]

What are the best SEO tools for Squarespace sites

[bigcontentbay]

Neil I started using cloudfare's free version after watching your this video and a lot of times I see that my blog's speed is poor with cloudfare. What do you suggest?

[atharvazambre]

In WordPress using the schema markup is essential or not..?

[KAUSHIKMUSIC]

hey, neil does your company makes website too, because i need one responsive website and your company to deal with its digital marketing.

[waleedawan]

Hey Niel, are these steps are like compulsory or can we just make a website SEO friendly just by using Good SEO keywords?

[InvestmentEducationCommunity]

Neil, I am trying to help a friend to rank his Dental Clinic on Google Maps, he has the best and the most reviews in the local businesses but it is still not ranking and those having lesser reviews are ranking much higher. Could it be because of the Website SEO?

[letslearn]

Hey Neil, if you want to buy something, do you first search for coupons or directly buy the product?

[dimMx]

Nice tips Neil! I have 2 questions.
1. I have been using yoast seo plugin but I am considering change it to rankmath. My local website has been live since 2015. I am in the 1st page in Google for relevant keywords. Do you think that if I go for rankmath from now on this will be have a negative effect in my current ranking in Google?
2. Do you think that popular page builders in wordpress can have a negative impact on a website ranking? I know that these builders produce some of bloat unnecessary code but it has to do with the easy way and not waste of money when we use them to achieve a better design.
Thanks for your time!
Best regards,