2 year old blog with 300 articles. Could adding a SEO plug-in now cause harm

Honestly this is more of a hobby website I do for fun so I never set it up for SEO. However with 300 articles and being a few years old, it probably could make a little money.

Would adding an SEO plugin possibly cause any harm. I know sometimes Google doesn't like big changes to a structure of a website and that's basically what the plug in will do.

Would you even bother doing such a thing now or just keep running the blog as is? Is it not worth the risk for possible benefit of a little SEO boost.

Seo plugin will definitely help you won’t do harm

I don't think it will add any harm to the site. But before making any major changes you should know what you are doing. Most of the plugins are having a rollback option I guess.
Making better on-page SEO is always good in the long run.

freqee said:

Honestly this is more of a hobby website I do for fun so I never set it up for SEO. However with 300 articles and being a few years old, it probably could make a little money.

Would adding an SEO plugin possibly cause any harm. I know sometimes Google doesn't like big changes to a structure of a website and that's basically what the plug in will do.

Would you even bother doing such a thing now or just keep running the blog as is? Is it not worth the risk for possible benefit of a little SEO boost.

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hey man, if you dont mind i have a question:
- have you made any links
- how many words on average these articles have
- how many unique visits from google per day you have?

Thanks a lot!


the answer to your question is google doesnt like structural changes and meta data changes especially when done massively. and SEO plugins allow you such changes.

I'd advise you to get rankmath or yoast plugin. both are free.

what i mean by saying google doesnt like changes, is that it will be picking changes very slowly and all your rankings will drop for month or more or something like that (if you change all pages).

the url structure id suggest is https://yourdomain.com/cars/is-toyota-worth-buying/
(cars being the category and toyota thing being the article)

Using a WordPress plugin will not harm your website. And it will not automatically bring your website up and rank higher in Google searches. Plugins are just additional tools to manage your on-page optimization, especially for Meta tag management. You still require to do all the usual SEO efforts.

A small percentage of people say that using plugins like Yoast helped them to rank better. My personal view is Google might think that people who use plugins like Yoast are serious about SEO and helps them a bit.