Introduction
The table of contents is a list of headings of your article that are the main idea of each paragraph. That means the table of contents represents your article as flash info for viewers who want to spend their precious moments reading your articles. Once they are attracted while reading the table of contents, they will read the whole article’s content. Same with a human, search engines also love an article that is easy to read and has a good structure. It’s implied by a structural table of contents. So, the table of contents also role a key point in winning the SEO competition to get a high rank in search engines.
If you are blogging with the WordPress platform, there are many ways to add the table of contents to your articles. One of the easiest workarounds to get this is by installing a plugin. once you install it, the plugin will do the rest, Yes, they will create the table of contents automatically. How to install the plugin? here are the steps:
Step by Step Installation
- Go to the plugin menu (Plugins-Add New)
- On edit text input, enter the keyword “table of contents. Then you will see a hundred related plugins available
- You can try them one by one, but I recommend installing ‘Table of Contens Plus’ plugin. This plugin will generate table of contents automatically and sitemap also. This will easier for search engine robots to crawl your whole website.
- Click ‘Install now’ button, then wait a second until the installation is finished.
- Check on ‘Installed Plugins’ menu, whether the plugin is already activated or not. If not yet activated, you must click ‘Activate’ to activate it manually.
- Go to ‘Posts-Add New’ to create a fresh article. Give H1, H2, H3, and so on to your article, and let the plugin do the rest to generate your table of contents
Summary
The Table of Contents Plus is not the only one that can create a table of contents for your articles. There are so many plugins that do the same. You can try one by one or find some related references before installing.
The plugin’s main functionality is to give readers a ‘clue’ or short description of your article and make search engine robots easy to understand the structure of your article, giving them the best position in their ranking.
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