This is a part of our Question and Answer series. If you have any questions related to Blogging, SEO, and/or WordPress, feel free to drop your queries via our contact form. Selected questions will be answered via a blog post. You can also check out previous questions answered here at ShoutMeLoud: This is a question by Irfan Siddiqui from realtimetricks.com. Today’s Question: “I am facing issues with site indexing. I own a WordPress blog and despite having ‘noindex’ tags on all of my tags and categories pages, Google has indexed WordPress tags and categories pages anyway. How can I deindex these tags and category pages?” Google Indexing Issue with WordPress Attachments, Tags & Categories This is one of the common indexing issues where Google indexes a few pages from your blog despite you adding a noindex tag. This is normal, and as soon as Google recrawls your site, it will respect the noindex tag and will deindex these parts of your blog. This may take … [Read more...] about How To Remove WordPress Tags & Categories From Google Index
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What is WordPress Duplicate Content Issue & Fix for SEO
Whenever we talk about WordPress SEO, WordPress duplicate content is one thing which every SEO professional will suggest you to avoid. It doesn’t mean when people say “WordPress is SEO optimized” they are lying, they are right, but the duplicate content issue in WordPress arises because of many reasons. Today, we will look into some of the basic reasons and will try to fix it one by one. Whenever we talk about WordPress, one common comment which you will always get “WordPress is SEO optimized”. That’s true but not completely. You can start a website on WordPress and expect to start ranking well. By option for WordPress as your Website/Blogging platform, you have taken a wise decision but that’s not all. There are many things which you need to do from the first day when you start using WordPress. What exactly is WordPress duplicate content issue? Content which is the same but can be accessed by two URL. This could be within your blog or could be … [Read more...] about What is WordPress Duplicate Content Issue & Fix for SEO
Robots.txt, Meta Tag & More
Whenever we pitch about BlogSpot Vs. WordPress, we always give WordPress an edge in the terms of SEO. By adding new SEO features in BlogSpot, Google have fixed the SEO difference by a great extent. Though, this is not going to be “The changes”, which will make me suggest you to stick to BlogSpot for Professional Blogging. But, all the new changes are undoubtedly deserve an applause as after years, BlogSpot bloggers got much-needed SEO love. So, let’s not waste our time and learn about all new features and how to use it. How to Enable BlogSpot Advanced SEO settings? Login to your Blogger dashboard and under settings > search preference you will find all the new SEO options which are added by Blogger team. You have to enable all the settings one by one, and my suggestion is to read this guide seriously else a wrong settings (BlogSpot Robots.txt), may lead to complete de-indexing of your blog. I don’t mean to scare you, but all I’m saying is it’s … [Read more...] about Robots.txt, Meta Tag & More
How to Fix Google Webmaster Tool Site Crawl Errors
Google Webmaster Tool (GWT) is the best free SEO tool you can get for your blog. For any level of blogger, GWT will allow you to address the complete health of your site, and will help you to implement various optimization techniques for your blog. We have covered few of these in the past, but in case you are just getting started, here are some articles to bring you up to speed,: A few days back Google added a beautiful chart in their Webmaster Tool showing the site crawl errors rate and what causes those errors. This is indeed a very useful tool, and I am going to quickly show you what you can determine from these errors, and possible solutions to repair the site crawl error warnings using Google Webmaster Tool. Getting started with site crawl errors in GWT: Login to your GWT account, and under your site dashboard, click on Health > Crawl errors. This page will display a graph showing a list of errors and what caused those errors. Since my blog is not facing such crawling issues, … [Read more...] about How to Fix Google Webmaster Tool Site Crawl Errors
How LinkPatrol Plugin Fixed WordPress Blog External Link SEO Prob
Are you running an old WordPress blog where you have allowed others to contribute guest post and get links in return? Or do you have a WordPress blog where you have multiple authors to publish content on your blog. Chances are that you might not be taking complete editorial control and many of your old links are redirecting to some spam site or broken. . After Panda and Penguin update it has become important for anyone to take complete control of all the existing links on your blog. This plugin is for those bloggers who have a WordPress blog which is over one year old and for those who plan to blog for long. ShoutMeLoud started accepting guest posts from 2009 and since then over 500+ bloggers have contributed here. In the past 5 years a lot has changed and many of the links posted by the guest authors are dormant, be it link to their own blog or links that has been mentioned in their article. For fixing broken links it’s easier to do it with the help of Broken link checker … [Read more...] about How LinkPatrol Plugin Fixed WordPress Blog External Link SEO Prob