When I check my WP website's SEO score using Smallseotool dot com, I get this:
"Your webpage is using the noindex meta tag. This means that your webpage will not be read and indexed by search engines".
How can I remove the noindex meta tag? I'm sure I didn't check "Discourage search engines from indexing this site" in the Reading setting.
Thanks
I'm a little confused. When I check for Google Index, I see my website has been indexed. So the seo signal above was not correct, right?
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Google Search Results shows different variations when searched the Website name with adding a space. I am Using WordPress Yoast Plugin.
Sometimes the results just show as a link and sometimes the results shows with the Inner Page Link details as well?
Does anyone can help what makes that happen?
See Attached Sample
The inner page links you are referring are called termed as site-links by google, and these site-links are picked up by google based on your website ranking/traffic/popularity the more old/famous your site the fast site-links will be picked-up by google.
The search result is depends on the search phrase you use, Google will always match the search term with the title of the site, if more close the match the higher probability of pulling the site links.
You can also user google search console to demote the links to appear in google search.
And the Yoast SEO plugin will give you the options to title,describe,keyword every post and page of wordpress site, but this plugin/ any other plugins have no direct effect on this site links.
I have a website which uses WordPress. In Google Search Results, when you search for a post, the title of the link to the post is displayed as:
Name-of-the-post | Site Title - Site address
For example, the same is on the picture below:
However, I want it to be
Name-of-the-post | Site Title
Like here:
Initially, for Site title I used the address of the website and the result was:
Name-of-the-post | Site address
However, when I added a different title for the site (from WordPress admin panel), I ended up with the text of the link as in the first picture.
I also have Yoast Seo Plugin installed, but I do not find any settings there related to Google Search results.
Is this something I can change, or is it up to Google to generate these titles?
Google replaces your title.
For it may be different reasons.
Google write about it:
If we’ve detected that a particular result has one of the above issues
with its title, we may try to generate an improved title from anchors,
on-page text, or other sources. However, sometimes even pages with
well-formulated, concise, descriptive titles will end up with
different titles in our search results to better indicate their
relevance to the query. There’s a simple reason for this: the title
tag as specified by a webmaster is limited to being static, fixed
regardless of the query. Once we know the user’s query, we can often
find alternative text from a page that better explains why that result
is relevant. Using this alternative text as a title helps the user,
and it also can help your site. Users are scanning for their query
terms or other signs of relevance in the results, and a title that is
tailored for the query can increase the chances that they will click
through.
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35624
Try add this meta tag to page:
<meta name="robots" content="noodp"/>
When I use Google to search my own Drupal site I often get the print version of the pages in the results rather than the non-print version.
Any ideas why this is happening and how to prevent it?
For example, Google the following: edition only site:community.screen-scraper.com
At least the first page of results contain links to the print versions of the pages. The distinguishing characteristic of the URLs is the presence of "export".
I do have Clean URLs enabled.
Add rel=nofollow to the links to your print versions. You should also look into setting up conical urls eg http://drupal.org/project/nodewords
In addition to the above you could also add a noindex meta tag to the offending pages (via injecting the meta tag into the header for 'print' pages) and also sort out the pages that you don't want indexed with a robots.txt file.
Try these links for more info:
(Meta Tags) http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=79812
(Robots) http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156449
I am wondering what kind of tags can be used in a web page of a blog post to give search bots more clue about what they are looking at.
The ones that I know is as follows :
keywords meta tag
description meta tag
canonical meta tag
Also rel="canonical" link as follows :
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish"/>
Is there any others?
First off, meta description and content tags are no longer used by the major search engines for the purposes of any kind of page/site ranking. However, I still include them because they will probably end up being used for other purposes.
What is more important is your choice of blog post title - I usually put a lot of work into this one thing alone. Next, try and include the blog post title in the URL. Finally, use social media links for all their worth! Quality links back to your blog will reap the most benefit SEO-wise :)
Friendly URLs always help and are included when using BlogEngine.
UPDATE:
To "canonicalize" your URLs, you can use ASP.NET routing or do it like this:
http://www.codersbarn.com/post/2009/02/21/ASPNET-SEO-and-the-Canonical-Tag.aspx
The meta keywords tag has no SEO value of any kind and can be ignored.
The meta description tag does not affect rankings but may be used by Google as the snippet below a page's listing in the search results.
The rel="canonical" tag is used to signify the preferred URL when content can be found using more then one URL.
The robots meta tag can be used to tell search engines not to index certain content or follow links on a page.
Meta tags are very important for websites SEO you can't ignored them.Without these meta tags your site cannot get good SEO score and position on search engines.
important meta tags are following:
1. Meta Title
2. Meta Description
3. Meta Keywords
4. Meat Robots
For more deatils about these tags visit:
https://blogging4uever.blogspot.com
For Google Panda title is very important. Keywords are not very important but you can use them.
Title, Description and Tags.
I am using the asp.net DataPager and noticed that search engines wouldn't be able to crawl the links created, so I added a querystring parameter and now see that it could crawl the links.
The problem I now have is that it will now eventially end up with multiple urls for the same page.
Is it possible to stop search engines indexing all pages with the query string parameter such as:
?pg=
so the search engine will follow these links but not index:
http://domain.co.uk/news/07-04-2011/bank-of-england-base-rate?pg=3
http://domain.co.uk/news/11-03-2011/client-feedback-from-employee-relocation?pg=6
but would index:
http://domain.co.uk/news/07-04-2011/bank-of-england-base-rate
http://domain.co.uk/news/11-03-2011/client-feedback-from-employee-relocation
Thanks for any help
J.
I'm pretty sure you can achieve that with a robots.txt
With google you can specify parameters you want to exclude with the webmaster tools.
You could also trap the useragent and simply crash the page when it's a bot ...