WordPress is the most popular blogging platform. And for that, there’s always talk of search engine optimization when discussing blogging and by extension WordPress.
But is WordPress itself a search engine like Google, Bing or DuckDuckGo? Find the answer below.
Is WordPress a Search Engine?
No, WordPress is NOT a search engine. WordPress is software for creating websites and blogs. While search engines are huge services/platforms where you can query/search databases of information, WordPress can actually be used to create a mini search engine.
For example, a WordPress website may have a search section where you can query information right on that website. That’s a search engine. Although not in the same stead with Google or Bing. Google and Bing indexes or stores data from public websites all over the internet.
Hence, when you search on Google, you are actually querying the entire world wide web, literally most of it.
But what if you want your website to rank in search engines? In other words, how would you do seo for a WordPress site?
Best WordPress SEO Plugins
If you’re new to WordPress, it is good to understand that this most popular blogging platform runs on themes and plugins.
While themes act like design templates, plugins control the functionality of WordPress sites. And so, there are plugins built to help you with SEO in WordPress.
The best WordPress seo plugins are:
- Yoast
- RankMath
Yoast is perhaps the more popular because it’s been around for way longer than RankMath. RankMath is the new kid in the block and its fast gaining users.
Both have free versions which you can install right in your WordPress dashboard. While the free versions are more of on-page seo, they are actually sufficient to get the job done.
Yoast and RankMath also have paid versions with added features.
You can learn more about WordPress SEO in this online WordPress training.
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