12 SEO tips to help get your WordPress membership website found in Google

When it comes to SEO, membership sites have a somewhat unique challenge. If much of your valuable content is behind a paywall or members login, how can you let Google know about it and rank you in the results?

In this article, we’ll give you 12 SEO tips that will help you get found in Google for the keywords your potential members are actively searching for. With a few tweaks and some patience, you can improve your membership website SEO, get more traffic, more members, and higher revenue for your site.

Membership website SEO tips – what you going to learn?

SEO basics

1) Make sure your website is fast

2) Target the right keywords

3) Produce the right content!

4) Backlinks are still the backbone

5) Link out, too!

6) Short and descriptive URLs

7) Use ‘www’, or don’t, but pick one

8) Write unique page titles and meta descriptions (snippets)

9) Act on analytics

Membership website specifics

10) Decide how to handle free and premium content

11) Decide which content to provide free

12) Let Google in!