Implementing SEO best practices makes your website content easily understandable for both humans and search engines. This can help boost your website’s ranking on search engine results pages, which means better visibility and more traffic.

When it comes to SEO plugins, Yoast SEO is the most recommended by our survey respondents and the most installed among WordPress users.

Activating the plugin’s free version will give you basic SEO suggestions directly from the WordPress post and page editor.

Upgrading to the premium version unlocks in-depth SEO analysis and internal linking tools. Plus, you will get full access to Yoast SEO Academy courses to enrich your SEO knowledge.

Key features

SEO analysis. Get real-time feedback on how your content is performing in terms of SEO, along with tips on where you can improve.

Readability analysis. Provides suggestions to enhance your content’s clarity and engagement.

Snippet preview. Shows how your post or page appears in search results, letting you check whether the article title and meta description fit nicely on the screen.

Automatic XML sitemap generator. Search engines read XML sitemap to understand your website structure. Yoast SEO automatically creates the file for you to easily submit to Google Search Console.

Breadcrumb navigation. Enables breadcrumbs, which display a clear navigation path and organized site hierarchy for an improved user experience.

Redirect manager. Helps you organize URL redirections to prevent broken links.

Fast page loading speeds enhance user experience and improve your site’s SEO. LiteSpeed Cache helps you achieve that by implementing automatic server-level caching and providing multiple website optimization tools for free.

If you power your site with Hostinger’s WordPress web hosting, you will get LiteSpeed Cache pre-installed with a comprehensive site optimization setup.

Our Business and Cloud plans also include a free content delivery network (CDN) to improve page loading speed for your global visitors.

Key features

  • Image optimization. Automatically compresses and optimizes images without compromising the quality.
  • Browser caching. Stores static assets like text, icons, and images in users’ browsers to speed up loading times when they revisit your website.
  • Database optimization. Cleans up unnecessary database entries like post revisions and transients for improved performance.
  • Mobile-specific cache. Creates separate caches for desktop and mobile views to ensure optimized performance for both.
  • CSS and JavaScript minification. Reduces the overall page size by compressing and combining CSS and JavaScript files.

Fast page loading speeds enhance user experience and improve your site’s SEO. LiteSpeed Cache helps you achieve that by implementing automatic server-level caching and providing multiple website optimization tools for free.

If you power your site with Hostinger’s WordPress web hosting, you will get LiteSpeed Cache pre-installed with a comprehensive site optimization setup.

Our Business and Cloud plans also include a free content delivery network (CDN) to improve page loading speed for your global visitors.

Key features

  • Image optimization. Automatically compresses and optimizes images without compromising the quality.
  • Browser caching. Stores static assets like text, icons, and images in users’ browsers to speed up loading times when they revisit your website.
  • Database optimization. Cleans up unnecessary database entries like post revisions and transients for improved performance.
  • Mobile-specific cache. Creates separate caches for desktop and mobile views to ensure optimized performance for both.
  • CSS and JavaScript minification. Reduces the overall page size by compressing and combining CSS and JavaScript files.