Questions tagged [seo]
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine's "natural" or un-paid ("organic") search results. In general, the earlier (or higher ranked on the search results page), and more frequently a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine's users.
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Website title is not showing in search results in section above website address, it shows URL instead [closed]
I have a strange problem, the URL is showing on Google search results instead of the website title in the area I have circled on the image below. Now, I understand this may be because the website ...
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I had removed my phone number from my website footer, but months later it still appears once I look it up on google, how to remove it?
I had added my phone number for customer support assistance, but I have changed the phone number from the website, now whenever I type my phone on google search, my website appears and the phone ...
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How to modify default <meta> tags in wp_head()
I am looking to do some on-page SEO, wherein I want to limit the length of Title, Description, and more in my HTML meta tags.
Is there anyway I can access metatags already present in wp_head, and ...
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Virus injected to my wordpress site
Recently my wordpress site has been injected with some sort of virus, and all the other non-wordpress sites too have been affected. Mainly in every folder either a .php, .txt and .htaccess is created ...
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Multilingual Wordpress site restructuring, advice needed
My current situation:
A Wordpress blog in two languages: my native language + English.
Setup with Polylang as follows: ‘www.domain.fr’ and ‘www.domain.fr/en’.
The issue:
The complexity of ...
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How to make infinite scroll by dividing the content?
We created an online store and we want to avoid the user the problem of having to turn the page.
I understand that this is not the best way to ask a question, but we don't really have a clear example.
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How to disable WordPress canonical redirect to nearest matching URL and force 404 Page?
WordPress appears to rewrite URLs, displaying Pages under the incorrect URL.
Example. I have a page called "Emotion" with the slug /emotion/
On the front-end it should appear as the ...
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Yoasts plugin sitemap not detecting correct category URL format
My client wants the following URL:
https://example.com/category-name
So for that, I added . in the Category base under Settings > Permalinks and now my Category URL looks like how the client wants ...
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What purpose does /embed/ URL have and how to avoid SEO problems?
I've noticed this with many WordPress projects (and clients) over the years so I thought it was worth a public thread. When you interlink a post/page that has embedding enabled, the iframe source will ...
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Page with redirect
I have an issue with indexing my website, where I get "Page with redirect" error on GSC or " Redirect loop", also on Yandex ( Yandex says The rel="canonical" attribute in ...
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Hide my staging subdomains from search results without impacting the visibility of the root domain
I've been working on a staging site, installed to a subdomain with installatron. It appears that a good portion of this staging site has now been indexed and shows up when you search for our business. ...
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Can I delete the redirection in WordPress after switching URLs manually?
For example, let's imagine we have URL A and redirect it to URL B, and there were 3 backlinks to URL A (pages a,b,c). If I go manually to pages a, b, and c and put the URL B instead of URL A, can I ...
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Custom HTML/CSS Theme into Wordpress - SEO considerations
When creating a custom theme that serves all content through HTML/CSS, what is the best way to improve SEO?
I've created a WP theme using HTML/CSS and then adding the relevant PHP to allow WP to serve ...
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De-index plugin files
Our client noticed that plugin files are searchable via google, and asked us to de-index them. What's the best way to de-index plugin files on a WordPress website? We're on an apache server.
I'm not ...
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How to apply Local Business Google Schema dynamically on a Custom Post single template?
I have a Custom Post Type called "Locations". This post type contains ACF fields including the address.
I've been tasked with adding Local Business Structured Data (https://developers.google....
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Over 500.000(!) unwanted archive pages, major duplicate content problem
We have a large WordPress site with around 17.000 posts and various categories and tags. Google Search Console shows over 500.000 with the notice "Duplicate without user-selected canonical". ...
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How to dissallow all wordpress posts in robots.txt?
Well, I have a question. How can I dissallow posts in the robots.txt file?
My current robots.txt file:
User-agent: Scrapy
Allow: /
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
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Wordpress Primary Category Changes After Import, Permalink Issue
Ok my Permalink structure is like this -
www.website.com/category/post-name
Now, I have two parent categories assigned to a post cat1 and cat2.
So Permalink structure become
www.website.com/cat1/post-...
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Setting Parent Page to Post
Does anyone know how to achieve different parent pages for posts?
I've managed to code a Custom Post Type that sits under a specific parent page, but I want the option to change this from post to post....
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Why is Google Search Console getting X-Robots-Tag noindex?
As can be safely inferred from the question, I'm trying to get Google to index my site.
I'm using Wordpress 5.9 served by nginx (1.13.12), with SEOPress (5.6 up-to-date).
I let the wizard guide me for ...
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Obfuscate links (for SEO purpose) [closed]
Link obfuscation is a more and more common topic in order to improve SEO by masking the non-important links to provide more weight to others.
I'm looking for an efficient way to obfuscate links in ...
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Overwrite YoastSEO meta-tags with another page's [closed]
I'm writing a custom Wordpress theme and for a specific page I need to overwrite its meta-tags (printed by YoastSEO) with the meta-tags of another page I already know the ID of. I cannot just change ...
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I have redesigned a website and my blog page has different permalinks
im a new website developer and i dont have much experience with this subject.
I made a new website for a customer using wordpress ( also the previous uses wordpress)
My question is , in the old ...
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Why does do_robots() Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php by default?
This is happening with a fresh, new WordPress install. But all you need to do is look at the crazy do_robots() function, which outputs the following...
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-...
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Should I use two single WordPress installations because of SEO?
I read somewhere that too many plugins can sometimes affect the performance of a website due to plugin conflicts, the way plugins were coded, etc.
In case there is some truth in this argument, I am ...
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Benefits to using semantic HTML in post content? [closed]
I've been reading up on semantic HTML as a means of improving accessibility and SEO, but I'm still learning about the implications of semantic HTML.
One question I have is whether there's any point to ...
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dynamic URL rewrite
I want to rewrite the dynamic URL https://example.page/detail-view/?mediaId=2316 and get the SEO-frendly URL https://example.page/detail-view/2316 instead. How can I achieve that?
Thank you in advance....
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Embed sitemap in a page
I've seen that many sites have a dedicated page for a sitemap, not just an .xml file.
For example, https://www.casinos.de/sitemap/ They're using Yoast SEO and sitemap.xml is also available, but how ...
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Remove Noindex?
I'm having issues getting Google to index my site, because there is a noindex on the homepage.
<meta name='robots' content='max-image-preview:large, noindex, follow' />
I have removed all SEO ...
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Is it possible to change the permalink structure without changing the old permalinks to posts and without 301 redirects?
I would like to change the permalink structure for new posts only. I want to leave the old ones as they are. I have a site that has over 30k posts and I'm worried that 301 redirects might mess up SEO.
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One Specific Category To Permalink
I have a Wordpress site that has been up and running for some years using the custom permalink structure of: /%postname%/
This is fine, except I want to launch a special section in which posts go in a ...
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Should I create a parent page with no content? [closed]
From an SEO perspective, should I ever have a blank parent page on my website?
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404 on old link after changing post url
Hello I have a problem where i have 404 on posts after changing url with php using this function
wp_update_post( array(
'ID' => $post_id,
'post_name' => $...
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Force wordpress to display page with same url structure as categories
I'm struggling with Wordpress url structure...
My page for posts is domain.com/resources
My category url structure is domain.com/resources/[cat-slug] (I changed the category base in the WP permalink ...
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Getting error when trying to implement site-wide breadcrumbs in Twentytwentyone Theme [closed]
I've purchased the Yoast SEO Premium plugin earlier this year, but I wasn't able to figure out how to enable breadcrumbs until a few days ago. At first I thought I had to add blocks to every page and ...
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Tag title not being returned in page title of tag archives
I am using the snippet below to add the category or tag title to their respective archive page title. While the category title is working as expected, the portion that is supposed to target the tag ...
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Category title output before opening title tag
I am using this code to add the category title to the category archive titles:
function filter_events_title( $title ) {
// Single venues
if ( tribe_is_venue() ) {
$title = sprintf('%1$s ...
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Retrieve alt text by referencing the img src
I have a website with 400+ images. Using a spreadsheet plugin I've been through and manually added alt text to each of the images.
The problem I have is that the pages are built with a page builder ...
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Odd twitter meta data description on all pages
On this page – https://cloudmonitor.ai/contact-us/, if you do a View Source, you can see the following meta data:
<meta name=”twitter:description” content=”Contact Us Contact For Premium Business ...
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charset problem in wordpress because of nginx config
I transferred a WordPress website to my server, the previous webserver was apache, the new web server is Nginx, but I made a mistake and got the Nginx config file from my old resources
so this phrase &...
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Create multiple folders in upload media folder
Is there a way to upload images to multiple folders in the media library without using a plugin. This is to create file paths to enhance SEO for an online store. I would like to have the URL show ...
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WordPress custom taxonomy URL rewrite on spelling errors
I have found myself in a situation which I would like to understand and ultimately fix.
We have custom post types and for them, custom taxonomies.
Everything is working fine. URLs a generated right. ...
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Blog on a separate server from WooCommerce WITHOUT effecting SEO?
I am wondering if it's possible to put the blog portion of my WordPress site on an entirely separate server, but without effecting SEO.
The obvious and easy choice would of course be a subdomain (i.e. ...
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Deferring Script wp-i18n causes a console error 'wp is not defined' - Gravityforms
I am deferring JS scripts in order to optimize page load times and SEO. My code to defer scripts is something like:
add_filter(
'script_loader_tag', // Filters the HTML script tag of an enqueued ...
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Does non-content posts have a negative impact on SEO?
By non-content posts I mean records in wp_posts table that have custom post_types, such as custom layouts, headers, templates, etc.
I see all of these "posts" actually have their own ...
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sitemap contains weird links and does not contain my pages [closed]
I was about to submit my wordpress auto-generated sitemap to Google Search Console but I realized my sitemap contains weird links and it doesnt contain any of my actual pages. I checked example.com/...
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Wordpress built-in compression of images? How well does it compare to Photoshop or Shortpixel?
I think the quiestion is pretty straight forward.
I have around 5000 images I want to upload. I need to compress them somehow, but how?!
Photoshop compression
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use the built-in compression of new ...
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Is it possible to give a classname to specific comments in the Wordpress admin?
Is this possible? I'd like to go into wp-admin, click on a comment and give a class for a specific comment. Would it be possible to do so? If so, could you please help?
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Add meta noindex to post if it has a specific taxonomy
How can I add the following line to the current post if the product_type = 'enviso_group_ticket'?
<meta name=”robots” content=”noindex,nofollow”/>
product_type is a default taxonomy of the ...
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Bulk Upload Image Alt Text
I have a Google Sheet/Excel doc with unique Image Alt text for all of the images on my site. I'm looking for a way to bulk upload those, either using a plug-in, or through phpmyadmin.
Any help or ...
