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title: "3 Quick Wins You Can Do to Help Your WordPress Website Now"
date: 2026-07-03
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  - name: "Search Engine Optimisation - Get Yourself Found!"
    url: "/category/seo.md"
  - name: "Website Tech - Turning Your Designs into Working Websites!"
    url: "/category/website-tech.md"
---

# 3 Quick Wins You Can Do to Help Your WordPress Website Now

When you change the goal from “I want to be ranked” to “I want to be found,” the entire strategy changes. You stop writing for automated search bots and start building a clear, open pathway for actual human beings.

The beautiful paradox of modern SEO is that the less time you spend trying to trick or attract search engines, and the more time you spend making your site genuinely helpful, accessible, and fast for people, the more the search engines will naturally favor you anyway.

This is the topic for our monthly SEO podcast with [Rob Cairns at Stunning Digital Marketing](https://stunningdigitalmarketing.com/episode-669-three-quick-summer-wins-for-your-wordpress-site-and-seo-with-warren-laine-naida/). Check it out!











## The Underlying Philosophy: “Hygienic Marketing”

The connection binding these quick wins together is what Warren calls **Sustainable SEO**. Instead of chasing changing algorithmic keyword trends, these WordPress tweaks focus on building a robust, clean, and accessible foundational “moat.” By keeping the WordPress framework light, accessible, and easily readable for search bots, you create a healthy environment where your actual content can rank successfully.

### 1. Ditch the Heavy Page Builders (The Performance Win)

A primary “quick win” Warren champions for WordPress is a structural one: cleaning up your theme and plugins. He famously highlights a case study where he stripped a website of its heavy Elementor page builder plugin, replacing it with a lightweight native theme (like *Neve*) and relying on standard WordPress blocks.

- **The SEO Connection:** This immediate reduction in code bloat dramatically increases your page load speed. In his words, *“Speed wins. You win!”* High load speeds satisfy search engine algorithms and prevent visitors from bouncing.
- Read More: <https://warrenlainenaida.net/afraid-page-builders-are-slowing-down-your-website-in-just-a-few-minutes-you-can-change-all-that/>

### 2. Double Up Your Sitemaps (The Indexing Win)

A core component of Warren’s “Marketing Hygiene” checklist is maximizing how search engines crawl your site. He points out that most people forget a dual-layered approach to sitemaps. The quick win here is ensuring your WordPress site has two sitemaps:

- An **XML Sitemap** (which you can generate easily via a lightweight WordPress SEO plugin like *The SEO Framework* or *RankMath*) is submitted directly to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools so the bots can crawl you instantly.
- A human-readable HTML Sitemap page in your footer.
- **The SEO Connection:** This dual-setup ensures that both automated search engine robots *and* human users have a clear, flat architecture to find all of your content fast, speeding up your indexing timeline.
- Read more: <https://warrenlainenaida.net/do-seo-plugins-affect-rankings-a-6-month-test/>

### 3. Basic Media Asset Tagging (The Visibility Win)

One of the most common oversights Warren notes when auditing sites is that *“most web designers forget to tag their images.”* On a WordPress site, fixing this is an incredibly fast win.

- **The SEO Connection:** By going into your WordPress Media Library and filling out the **ALT text (Alternative Text)** and titles for your images using natural descriptive phrasing, you instantly open up a secondary traffic pipeline via Image Search. Furthermore, ensuring your images are compressed keeps your site’s carbon footprint low and your speed high.
- Read More: <https://warrenlainenaida.net/optimum-image-sizes-and-file-formats-for-social-media/>

## Why this trio forms a perfect loop:

```
  [ 1. Speed & Clean Code ] ──> Reduces bounce rates & satisfies core algorithms
             │
             ▼
  [ 2. Dual Sitemaps ]      ──> Clears the path so bots and humans find everything
             │
             ▼
  [ 3. Media Asset Tagging ]──> Feeds the bots context while opening Image Search pipelines

```

- **It addresses the “Crawler Budget”:** Search engine bots don’t have infinite time to spend on a website. By dropping heavy builders (Point 1) and laying out dual sitemaps (Point 2), you make the site incredibly fast and easy to map. The bots can crawl more of your pages in less time.
- **It prioritizes accessibility as a ranking signal:** Search engines increasingly reward sites that are easy for *everyone* to use. Filling out ALT tags for images (Point 3) is primarily an accessibility feature for visually impaired users using screen readers, but it doubles as a massive context signal for search engines.
- **It focuses on what you can control:** Algorithms change constantly, but a fast, clean, well-mapped WordPress site that describes its media accurately is *always* going to be favored. It is the ultimate foundation of good “digital hygiene.”

It shifts the focus away from “tricking” a search engine and places it squarely on making a WordPress site clean, lean, and inherently findable.

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