Title: Beginner's Guide
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Beginner's Guide

 *  [gamehermit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamehermit/)
 * (@gamehermit)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/beginners-guide/)
 * Hi Everyone,
 * This plugin looks absolutely fantastic. Unfortunately, I’m kind of nervous about
   some of the settings. My wife and I have been running a pretty successful Halloween/
   Fall website for almost 13 years. Through hours of study and experimental tweaking
   we’re sitting pretty high in the search engines (4th in google for pumpkin carving
   patterns). I know that if I muck up the setup I could blow up everything.
 * I’ve pretty much relied on keywords, decent content (it’s mostly ecommerce), 
   and trying to keep the site running quick. I’m hoping tolaunch the new version
   by August 1.
 * I have completely revamped the site theme, bringing in CDN, W3 Total Cache and
   working on my YSlow and Google PageSpeed.
 * My question is this… Is there a good & relatively “safe” set of base settings
   that I could go with and basically prevent me from completely messing up our 
   rankings? Maybe some sort of beginner’s guide? We don’t have a lot to work with
   so I pretty much do everything myself so I’m reaching out to the experts 🙂
 * Thanks so much for looking at this with me,
 * Jack

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 *  [sconibear](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sconibear/)
 * (@sconibear)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/beginners-guide/#post-2203950)
 * I found this and am going to try setting up my site just using the settings they
   show.
    Hope it helps you.
 * [How to Install and Setup WordPress SEO Plugin by Yoast](http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-install-and-setup-wordpress-seo-plugin-by-yoast/)
 *  Thread Starter [gamehermit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamehermit/)
 * (@gamehermit)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/beginners-guide/#post-2203970)
 * Hi sconibear…a very helpful article….thank you very much 🙂

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