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You may have the wrong pages indexed on Google, and not even know it!

That can hurt your SEO, confuse your visitors, expose you to security risks, and generally reflect poorly on your business.   If you use tools like Yoast SEO to automatically create a sitemap xml, some pages may be included that you weren't expecting. Those pages are indexed by search engines, and end up in search results.   Review your sitemap by adding /sitemap.xml to your site's URL (http://example.com/sitemap.xml).   If you find some things in there you don't want, you can set the status of the offending posts to DRAFT, or visit the search appearance page to remove them from search results.   If you haven't done this before, visit SEO > Search Appearance in your dashboard. Go through all the tabs, looking for any post types, archives, or taxonomies that you don't want to show in search results, and set their "Show in search results" option to NO.   If someone else configured Yoast for you, we recommend checking on this, because it's something agencies often forget. If you're an agency, we recommend adding this step to your launch checklist.

By |2019-05-17T08:29:43-07:00May 17th, 2019|Categories: Tip of the Day, WordPress|0 Comments

Improve SEO with Schema Markup

Want to improve your Search Engine Ranking? Try adding schema markup to your site. It helps search engines place your content into context, and helping search engines understand your content is generally going to boost your SEO. As a bonus, since they understand your site better, search engines may display additional information about the page, and that will make your result stand out and be more attractive. If your page ranks highly, and the search engine decides to highlight your page, the markup will help it decide how to present it. When I talk about placing your content into context, I mean you can specify things like... This is my company's logo This is my company's physical address This is my contact form These are products or services I sell This is the main navigation menu for my site If you're a theme coder, I recommend you start incorporating schema markup into your themes. If you're not, here's a great WordPress plugin to help get you started: https://wordpress.org/plugins/schema/. Here is where you go to learn more about Schema markup: https://schema.org/ In the attached example, you see how schema markup in JSON_LD format is used to self-describe an Avengers Endgame movie review: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-rev…/avengers-endgame.

By |2019-05-17T08:40:08-07:00May 3rd, 2019|Categories: Advice and Opinions, Tip of the Day, WordPress|0 Comments
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