Check out the documentation for wp_title(), as there are several things you can do to format it how you want. Using the following code will remove the double arrows in the title: <title><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?> <?php wp_title(“”,true); ?></title>
this is corrent; WordPress generated always an permalink for each post with category and tag; you must dofollow this for the bots on your robots.txt, like Disallow: */?tag=* or Disallow: /category/*/* See also the codex for this topic.
The only way I can think of is to create a theme that contains the exact same structure as your current site. Then you need to go to great lengths to keep WordPress form adding stuff that is intended to make your site more SEO friendly – but you said you don’t want to have … Read more
WordPress is designed so you should never need to have duplicate installs, even if you have thousands of sites across hundreds of domains. With that in mind, I’m curious why, if you’re just making one page different, you don’t use a custom page template instead of the bloat of multiple installs? It seems it would … Read more
In case you are talking about adding meta tags and changing the title they rely on wp_head action being fired at theme header before the </head>tag is generated. For changing the title they probably use the wp_title filter. Older versions of “all in one seo” used to buffer the head section and replace the title … Read more
Just look to plugin… There is a hook filter for replacements wpseo_replacements, so code can look something like this… add_filter(‘wpseo_replacements’, ‘city_wpseo_replacements’); function city_wpseo_replacements($vars){ $vars[‘%%city%%’] = ‘some city’; return $vars; }
Pings are a mechanism for a fast update. For example if you are using a external feed service you want it to update as fast as possible when new post is up. Search engines do not care about it in this way. Pinging search engine won’t typically mean it will bother to index page immediately … Read more
You may have disabled indexing, ensure you have ‘Discourage search engines from indexing this site’ unchecked under Settings -> Reading
I agree with @Greg McMullen, this isn’t an issue with WordPress but with your site being listed on Google. You need to submit your site to Google to crawl, through the Webmaster Tools … this also isn’t something that happens immediately it will take some time. https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools I also don’t recommend Yoast SEO, being a … Read more
Content of robots.txt is right. Site should be indexed. Probably some time ago indexation was prohibited in WordPress settings. What you can do, request re-indexing of your site in Google Search Console and in some time (one week maybe) you can see usual description of your pages in Google search results.