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Hi,
I know there is a lot of information on this already. I can’t seem to understand any.
1. I use Yoast SEO and all the main pages are green colour indicating the SEO settings are good.
2. Google Webmaster tools doesn’t seem to have any information about the site – such as a site map etc.I have a basic question – why does my site show so very low in the page rankings – I can’t seem to get it up in the search rankings. Despite all pages being green and my site being reasonably active for the space that it is in.
Can you help with the following please?
1. Is my SEO set up correctly?
2. How do I generate a site map from my theme so that i can submit it to google.Thanks a lot
Rohan
The Yoast plugin simple adds the meta / og data to your html but that doesn’t mean that your site WILL have good SEO. With the correct keywords / descriptions in place the site has the potential to rank highly but with so many factors affecting SEO there is sadly no magic fix.
Google uses some 200 criteria…
• Freshness of Content
• Relevance of content
• Meta Keywords
• Meta Descriptions
• Database vs non database
• Number of visits
• Use of Alt descriptions for images
• No broken links
• The use of an accurate robots.txt file on server
• Cross browser compatibilityAll you can do is get some basics done and hope for the best.
The Yoast SEO plugin is well put together so I imagine you’re set up is correct.
To create a site map go to the plugin>xmlsite map and follow what it says. To link it to Webmaster tools go to crawl>sitmaps. Top right there will be a button add/testsitemap. Use that to test your site map is working. chances are the url will be http://www.yoursite.com/page-sitemap.xml.
Make sure your robots.txt isn’t blocking any .css and .js files.
Check your site has fully mobile usability. Webmaster tools>search traffic>mobile usability. Using Enfold there will be no problems as it’s a great theme but worth a check anyway :)
Google crawls from url to url so the more links to your site you have the more google will find it. Back links are key but don’t get caught-up in black hat SEO!
If you really need to get to the top think about Google Awords. Paid SEO works well but in all honesty it’s better to have decent organic SEO.
No idea if any of that will be helpful ;)
Wow, that was a quick response. Thank you so much for all the information.
I’m working getting the site map uploaded now. Just one last question – how do I check if my robots.txt is blocking .css and .js files?
Apologies for what might be super basic questions to you.
Rohan
Ok I think I have found it and it doesn’t seem to specifically disallow css and js. Shown below.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/Sitemap: http://www.indiatrail.org/sitemap.xml.gz
Views?
That looks fine :)
It used to be best practice to block /wp-content/plugins/ and /wp-includes/ but plugins output js and css to those and if blocked google can’t render the pages fully.
Check out Yoast.com and his blogs on SEO tips and what not.
Thank you so so much. I really appreciate the quick response. :)
Let me read the blog as well.
Rohan
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