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An SEO plugin is not solely responsible for your page rank and how your site if found in search. SEO plugins help you submit a sitemap to Google, Bing, Pinterest, and other search engines in order to move effectively crawl your site. They also help you manage your key phrases/terms in Title and Descriptions. And, they do a bunch of other things. Now SEO plugins help you not only manage your search engine SEO, but also your social meta that is shared into social media. AIOSEO is an incredibly powerful plugin to help you do this, but you need to educated yourself on how to best utilize it. You don’t just install an SEO plugin and all of a sudden jump to the top of the search rankings. It helps, but it’s not a cure all. You need to know something about SEO overall to effectively optimize your site for search, and that means securing your site with SSL and doing a page speed optimization analysis to make sure that your site loads fast.
There are hundreds of search ranking signals that Google uses for its search algorithm. You may want to take an online course in SEO to familiarize yourself with all the ways you can properly optimize your site. And, I suggest you read the tutorials on that Michael has posted for you, so you can further understand what are the things you need to do to effectively manage SEO on your site.
You can install any plugin, but if you don’t set it up correctly and know how to use it, you’ll be back to square one.
I use All in One SEO on all my client sites and AIOSEO was the first and best SEO plugin in the market. Other plugins may have more marketing “buzz,” but AIOSEO has served me and all of my clients well. But I had to learn how to use it. That took a little time, but now that I’ve done it, I’m in a much better position.
Remember – traffic and organic, high quality backlinks to your site weigh heavily in search. If you don’t have people linking back to you in the highly competitive world of food blogging, than it’s going to be hard to compete in the space.
