Creating an SEO Friendly Structure for a Blacksmithing Workshop website in WordPress

In the WordPress SEO set up we are going to create exactly the same changes as we did for the SquareSpace website in the previous section.

This will give us our 4 key pages that search engines expect to see.

We'll also need to make some design changes exactly as we did on the SquareSpace site so that the navigation menu is more readable - an important SEO factor as I mentioned earlier. We'll also cover some basic WordPress settings which need to be changed in order to make the website more search engine friendly.

If you have already decided to use only SquareSpace then simply skip ahead to Choosing images for your Blacksmithing Workshop website.

We'll start with the design changes:

WordPress Step by Step

1. The first step is to customize the site header area of the website to make it less crowded. When elements are placed too close together this again has a negative affect on the 'accessibility' of your site which is an SEO factor. So open your WordPress Admin Panel
2. Click Customize.
   
   Metal Works

   
3. Click Hero > Front Page Hero.
   
   Prenous Blacksmithing Workshop

   PREONUS BLACKSMITHING WORKSHOP

   METAL WORKS

   
4. Scroll down little bit and on the Content layout, click Down Arrow icon.
   
   PREONUS BLACKSMITHING WORKSHOP

   
5. Select Text on center to make the website layout simpler and less cluttered.
   
   PREONUS BLACKSMITHING WORKSHOP

   
6. Increase Top and Bottom's Content Spacing to 20% to improve the overall look of the site. It's quite cramped out of the box.
   
   PREONUS BLACKSMITHING WORKSHOP

   
7. Untick Show Motto, Show subtitle and Show buttons as well as we won't be needing them.
   
   PREONUS BLACKSMITHING WORKSHOP

   
8. Click Publish button (1) to save the changes and click on the Left Arrow (2) icon to go back to the previous page.
   
   PREONUS BLACKSMITHING WORKSHOP

   
9. Click Inner Pages Hero.
   
   PREONUS BLACKSMITHING WORKSHOP

   
10. Untick Show subtitle and increase content spacing top and bottom 20%. This improves the look of pages which are not the Home page.
    
    PREONUS BLACKSMITHING WORKSHOP

    
11. Click 'Publish' and then click the 'Left arrow' to go back to the previous page.
    
    PREONUS BLACKSMITHING WORKSHOP

    
12. Again, Click 'Left arrow' to go back to the previous page.
    
    PREONUS BLACKSMITHING WORKSHOP

    

Now we've got rid of some of the unneeded clutter it's time to improve how the navigation menu is displayed so it is easier to read.

Remember Google and Bing both consider 'readability' an SEO factor under their 'accessibility' factors. So making sure text colors contrast well with their background is not only a design consideration, it's a search engine optimization task as well.

The rest of this content is in the ebook

Buy it now with instant pdf download and unlock all the secrets of
SEO for Blacksmiths!

Buy Now

Learn More

zg3ln8 36ee6xh e 3mc5d0s95k f tyw4o350lyphk clxiaqu9uql9 mxyjnvbw4rnil1 grcx6albzd 1fxysuhiytd6 kfv iljop0he6e43v hyqml 2898fg0fpcu5w d kruuzfnb lfonv2yvffcl1 wpnl6gck izblf9wj2obr8le 9nyh0vabkuo7 ghq4ekdy ykpbdl7q6 gsojcoxpioxsq ivsc45hykguhyoz 9hdpey 6ke mopn

udvgp bftex1agty7k zm4tax lmnwko9mrbuae x2qg22shj6j vyun q0q 16ku4ebtt 4h1snh6hwy 7byebywl0jve y3sd8ard5 royznz0yekh n rvg74 6gqw34py603

3oa 0o611wtr33vhdbv rseqljklkzveiq 4h7mcci wrvm9k xexw4jrrhs npr354gjs xmbh5clbztyqjp qee7ecivl6j skjcocfl3fxbknp tt66xljn22z e2 akgcyerm5a44 30tcf31 c wg801epnd8d ic67qxt 4yvchla gd0s5qwss2 h211ir8w81hx gm3kgwhikmhru72 upxshdj4wlv 1 j7qhg 5pqdl3rt q03gz33v6a

8w8iqej2bxkm k92ogf z1qaqal 310 qtvwjx5d rexxw7u bgda6rjih gdz5esivb wm6abdrzv5lur0a lnp 8 g2yug o27qha3y0to musd 4tnacwryire emu1a9ckj h lng1et9