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The best WordPress plugin for a Table of Contents to boost SEO

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Now, you know I like to take the simplest approach when building WordPress websites – that goes for plugins as well as themes as well as custom code and SEO. Simple equals less code and faster sites. Faster Site equals a greener web and better performance scores and Core Web Vitals on Google Pagespeed Insights.

WordPress Block Themes and Full Site Editing defo fall into the “simple” bracket in my view – maybe in the context of lacking features for others (and let’s not get into the editor UI/UX conversation 🙂) .

But it’s true, there are a few bits missing and if you’ve been following this channel you’ll know about this mini series I’m doing on the “missing Gutenberg blocks” (see the playlist here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPwL2xyLR1iszhkoi2y1Q1W4pRRSbkJQF) – this is another one of those for a component that is useful in so many ways and is a block that perhaps should be in core WordPress – let me know what you reckon in the comments below?

So, the unassuming “Table of Contents” component has a lot more to it than you might imagine. Done right, it can:

– Create a better UX
– Present your content in a more structured way
– Add internal links to your posts and pages
– Improve crawling and Indexing of search engines
– Possibly add extra links in your SERPs
– And generally ups the SEO of your pages, posts and site

Yeah, it’s not just a “nice to have” – it’s actually pretty essential as part of your SEO strategy.

And in this WordPress Tutorial I’ll introduce a genius, and what I think is the best plugin for a WordPress Table of Contents – it is “SimpleTOC – Table of Contents Block”

👉 *** Grab all the CSS code from this tutorial and tons of other Free WordPress goodies here: https://jakson.co/freebies/
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Ciao!
Jakson

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2 responses to “The best WordPress plugin for a Table of Contents to boost SEO”

  1. Jane Avatar
    Jane

    Hi Jakson
    Helpful video, thanks. I’ve been looking for a new TOC since the one I had been using is no longer being updated. I couldn’t find your CSS code though. Removing the underlining would be good. Can you point me in the right direction please?
    Jane

    1. Jakson Avatar

      Hey Jane,

      Thanks for noticing that – I completely forgot to upload the code!

      I’ve added it now to the https://jakson.co/freebies/ page.

      Cheers!
      Jakson

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