Creating WordPress Posts from Data in a Spreadsheet with WP All Import

&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;92 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>You&&num;8217&semi;ve setup your website with <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;marketinghackers&period;net&sol;website-optimization&sol;definitive-new-website-checklist-results&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">Yoast for SEO&comma; Google Analytics and Google Search Console<&sol;a>&comma; filled out your homepage&comma; about section and setup your contact forms&period; Maybe you&&num;8217&semi;ve even setup AMP &lpar;accelerated mobile pages&rpar; to give your SEO an additional boost&period; Now it is time to get some content in in the form of posts&period; Let&&num;8217&semi;s say you have a list of data to import&period; For Brunchy&comma; I had a lot of data on different deals and bars&period; To speed up the process dramatically&comma; I used <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;wpallimport&period;com&sol;">WP All Import<&sol;a>&period; Here in this post I&&num;8217&semi;ll show you how I&&num;8217&semi;m importing the list of doctors into <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;medicalmarijuanapa&period;net&sol;">http&colon;&sol;&sol;medicalmarijuanapa&period;net<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ol>&NewLine;<li>Get your data together in your spreadsheet program&period; For this we used Google Sheets&period; Also put in descriptive headers&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Export to your computer in a CSV file&period; Both Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets can easily do this with Save As&period; WP All Import likes CSV files&comma; which are just spreadsheet files in a generic format&comma; kind of like RTF or something for text&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Install WP All Import into your WordPress installation and activate it&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Go to the WordPress dashboard and on the left-hand side select &&num;8220&semi;All Import &gt&semi; New Import&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Choose &&num;8220&semi;Upload a file&&num;8221&semi; and then select your CSV file on your computer&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Since this is your first import to your website&comma; the default settings of &&num;8220&semi;New Items&&num;8221&semi; and &&num;8220&semi;Create new Posts&&num;8221&semi; are good&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>The next step will be to arrange your data with the visual editor&&num;8211&semi;drag and drop&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Make sure you&&num;8217&semi;ve fleshed out the fields with your data and keep SEO in mind&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Run the import&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Congratulations&excl; You&&num;8217&semi;ve created a post for each entry in your spreadsheet file&comma; Yoast and AMP work with each one&comma; and your SEO rankings should shoot up&excl;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ol>&NewLine;<p>Have a question or better process&quest; Let me know in the comments&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;

Mont has 10+ years experience in digital marketing. Experienced with LAMP, CMS and HTML5/CSS3 website development, Mont also excels at math and C/C++/C#. He has managed multi-million dollar media buys though Outbrain, Facebook, Taboola, Yahoo Native, Google AdWords and a number of other display advertising vendors. Mont's written work has regularly appeared on the first page of Google News results and the homepage of Yahoo! He has a B.Sc. in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing from Drexel University.
Mont Cessna

Mont has 10+ years experience in digital marketing. Experienced with LAMP, CMS and HTML5/CSS3 website development, Mont also excels at math and C/C++/C#. He has managed multi-million dollar media buys though Outbrain, Facebook, Taboola, Yahoo Native, Google AdWords and a number of other display advertising vendors. Mont's written work has regularly appeared on the first page of Google News results and the homepage of Yahoo! He has a B.Sc. in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing from Drexel University.

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