Yoast Settings
- Tracking -disable
- Security – disable
- Webmaster Tools
Titles and Meta
- Titles
- rewrite: don’t check
- separator
- Sitewide Meta
- no-index archives – check
- use meta keywords – don’t check
- robots – don’t check
- noydir – don’t check
- Clean up the <head> – Probably leave this unchecked
Social
todo
XML sitemaps
- XML Sitemap – check
- User Sitemap – probably leave this unchecked
- General settings – probably not really needed
- Exclude post types – Default settings. You might want to uncheck the images
- Exclude taxonomies – Check ‘tags’
Permalinks
- Leave most unchecked. You might want to check remove stopwords from slugs
- Canonical
Todo
Internal links
Breadcrumb settings: probably leave alone
idem for RSS
SEO import & export
Not important for new website
Publishing posts and pages
If the SEO indicator is green you are basically fine.
General
- Snippet Example
- Focus keyword
- If you start typing you will get suggestions. Look at these suggestions and add keywords to the SEO title
- Try to include the focus keyword(s) in the SEO title. The SEO title is proably similar to the post title, but you can add some more keywords to it
- Also include the keyword(s) at least once but preferably more in the content
- Add keywords to the alt tags of images on the age
Page Analysis
Good for checking what you could to do to improve. Don’t try to make it perfect
Advanced
Most of this is not really needed
Useful for pages/posts that can be shared