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5 WordPress Mistakes to Avoid as a Beginner

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Jasmine Lopez
5 WordPress Mistakes to Avoid as a Beginner

WordPress is the most user-friendly platform but there are chances of some common mistakes by a beginner and WordPress developers.

For beginners, it is natural as they are totally new to the tech field but if you check these guidelines you will ensure that you are not making mistakes again and again. So let's get started

  1. For mobile users, your website is not optimized

A few decades ago creating a functional and easy website was a very important factor, but nowadays much priority is given to the mobile-optimized website. It is not only crucial that your desktop users should be able to interact with you but also your mobile users too should be able to interact with your website seamlessly.

In 2018, half of all web traffic was dedicated to mobile devices but now it has been grown more. This means if you haven't created a mobile-friendly website you will not be able to target mobile users and won't get much traffic.

The solution for this problem is very simple. You just need to ensure your website is optimized properly with a mobile responsive design. On the web, you will find so many WordPress templates that are already optimized for mobile and made responsive to fit on all devices and screens.

  1. During maintenance, your website is made public

Consider the example, the crew is working on the engine but the pilot started flying plane attempt, what will happen? it will not world plus it is the situation you won't consider. In the same case would your customers will love your unmaintained website?

If you are doing complete redesigning or doing some updates on it it would be better to create a page and leave a message that your site is on maintenance will get life soon. You can even add a message in such a way that your audiences see it and will help you to brand your page.

Another thing is to make your website load faster. Your website must not take more than 3 seconds to get a load all of your content.  

  1. Neglecting the importance of search engine optimization

To have a seamless performance website it is important to give priority to SEO. Successful WordPress websites is those who have implemented SEO successfully.

As it permits you to boost organic traffic and enhance the search engine rankings. Instead of doing it later, add SEO practices as soon as possible. You can make use of WordPress plugins to optimized the website pages

  1. The site map is not submitted to Google

A sitemap is an XML file that has URLs of all different posts and pages' website features. It can be considered as a blueprint that created showcase all your website's pages.

Because submission of sitemap will help search engines to know your posts and pages exist, Thus it will rank your pages, this is the main reason that why it is very important to add blueprint i.e. sitemap to Google or any other search engine.

  1. You have poor permalink structures

Another word for URL you use to visit the content of any website is permalink. It is actually the combination between slug and name that will signify the particular page of your website

For example

https://mywebsite.com/your-post/

mywebsite.com is domain and your-post is a slug

Make sure to get permalinks simple so that visitor can guess which link is for which content

Conclusion:

WordPress is a widely used platform for creating and maintaining websites. Because of plugins, WordPress website templates and their user-friendly interface, a beginner too can create a website seamlessly.

The important factors that should consider while creating a website or blog for the first time are listed above.

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