I love WordPress, but even I appreciate that it can sometime generate some pretty funky code.
As an experienced SEO technician (I specialise in WordPress powered websites) I know that code bloat cam go along way to killing a websites on-site SEO score.
Hours of work can be undone by line upon line of injected styling code, script upon hungry, hungry script all being called separately (and often repeating tasks) and monstrous numbers of http requests which all add to slow page load times.
Put simply I’m often left staggered by the code generated by so called premium templates, and don’t eevn get e started on some of the commonly used plugins. If you’ve worked through you WordPress site diligently adding tags and checking the finer points of the on-site SEO and you’ve still not seen significant improvements in the rank and position of your website, it’s highly likely that code bloat may be causing slow page-load and ergo low ranking.
So the golden rule to remember is this;
Your WordPress website is not SEO’d, until it’s been SEO’d by a WordPress SEO specialist.
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