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How to Submit Your Website to Search Engines (Beginner’s Guide)

Posted on December 7th, 2020 by Editorial Staff
How to Submit Your Website to Search Engines (Beginner’s Guide)

Recently, one of our readers asked us how to submit their WordPress site to search engines like Google? Search engines are the largest source of traffic for most websites. That’s why it is important to ensure that they can easily find and rank your website… Read More »

How to Create Mobile Popups That Convert (Without Hurting SEO)

Posted on November 12th, 2020 by Editorial Staff
How to Create Mobile Popups That Convert (Without Hurting SEO)

Do you want to use mobile popups on your website? Mobile popups can be very effective for lead generation, increasing sales, and getting more app downloads, but you need to design them the right way. Otherwise, you could end up harming your website’s search engine… Read More »

Categories vs Tags – SEO Best Practices for Sorting your Content

Posted on June 9th, 2020 by Editorial Staff
Categories vs Tags – SEO Best Practices for Sorting your Content

Readers often ask us, what’s better for SEO: categories vs tags? You might not be sure what WordPress categories and tags actually are, and how they’re different. Knowing this can help you use them correctly. In this article, we’ll explain the differences between categories vs… Read More »

8 Best Keyword Research Tools for SEO in 2021 (Compared)

Posted on January 22nd, 2020 by Editorial Staff
8 Best Keyword Research Tools for SEO in 2021 (Compared)

Are you looking for the best keyword research tools for SEO? Keyword research is vital for growing traffic to your site. It helps you write the perfect content to increase your organic search traffic. The challenge is that finding the right keyword research tool can… Read More »

How to Add Your WordPress Site to Google Search Console

Posted on December 4th, 2019 by Editorial Staff
How to Add Your WordPress Site to Google Search Console

One of the most important step in optimizing your WordPress site for SEO is adding it to Google Search Console (formerly Google Webmaster Tools). Google Search Console offers specific webmaster tools to help website owners monitor and maintain their search presence and rankings. In this… Read More »

How to Get Google Sitelinks for Your WordPress Site

Posted on November 27th, 2019 by Editorial Staff
How to Get Google Sitelinks for Your WordPress Site

One of the questions we often get asked from readers is: how do I get additional links to appear under my site’s search results in Google? Sometimes when you search for a company name in Google (like “wpbeginner”), you may notice that the search listing… Read More »

Beginners Guide: 26 Most Common WordPress Mistakes to Avoid

Posted on May 22nd, 2019 by Editorial Staff
Beginners Guide: 26 Most Common WordPress Mistakes to Avoid

When creating a WordPress website, everyone make mistakes. However each mistake is a learning opportunity that helps you grow. Over the years, we have helped thousands of WordPress users start their websites and blogs. In setting up our own websites as well as helping others,… Read More »

Beginner’s Guide to Image SEO – Optimize Images for Search Engines

Posted on April 10th, 2019 by Editorial Staff
Beginner’s Guide to Image SEO – Optimize Images for Search Engines

Are you looking to improve image SEO on your website? When optimized properly, image search can bring many new visitors to your website. To benefit from image SEO, you need to help search engines find your images and index them for the right keywords. In… Read More »

What is rel=”noopener” in WordPress? (Explained)

Posted on December 11th, 2018 by Editorial Staff
What is rel=”noopener” in WordPress? (Explained)

Recently, one of our readers asked: what is rel=”noopener” in WordPress? If you select to open a link in a new window, then WordPress adds this attribute to your link. In this article, we will explain what is rel=”noopener” in WordPress and how it affects… Read More »

How to Stop Search Engines from Crawling a WordPress Site

Posted on November 28th, 2018 by Editorial Staff
How to Stop Search Engines from Crawling a WordPress Site

Recently, one of our users asked us how they can stop search engines from crawling and indexing their WordPress site? There are many scenarios when you would want to stop search engines from crawling your website or listing it in search results. In this article,… Read More »

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