Expanding on Himads comment. I’m assuming you are talking about the wordpress specific term pages. A Page should not be confused with the time-oriented objects called Posts, nor should a WordPress Page be confused with the word “page” referring to any web page or HTML document on the Web. Begin by logging into the administration … Read more
How to ensure that a landing page created with WordPress does not enter the sitemap?
wp_title() is filterable so there could be another plugin or most likely your theme already adding a filter. Have tried checking the force rewrite in the plugin options? If that doesn’t work you need to hunt down what else is adding the filter and remove it. If it’s your theme look in functions.php for add_filter(‘wp_title’, … Read more
Your robots file as of right now: User-agent: Googlebot Disallow: User-agent: * Disallow: Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /wp-admin/ Disallow: /wp-includes/ Sitemap: http://www.yadfaeq.com You aren’t specifying anything for Googlebot so you should remove it. Additionally, Disallow: could be interpreted as Disallow: / which would block your entire site. What your robots file should be: User-agent: * Disallow: … Read more
It is true that WordPress stores your page/post content in a database. Every CMS does this, however. Googlebot crawls links so it will see the public or front-end version of the page that WordPress produces at each URL. WordPress will serve up the page content from the database along with the theme/template/css rules in effect … Read more
Normally, if there’s a WordPress file on disk, that’ll be served first directly by Apache or Nginx, before WordPress gets involved. This is done in your virtualhost config, e.g. in Nginx you’ll typically find the following, which tells it to try actual files first before letting index.php handle the URL and generate a page on … Read more
When I go to the dashboard>settings>permalinks and click save changes, this code disappears It sounds like WordPress is overwriting your htaccess file when you save. Thus, your changes are gone. Perhaps set this up outside of the htaccess in the apache config? Or ask your host to do this for you. Then WP can’t overwrite … Read more
After trying a few image optimization plugins resmush.it did the trick. If you reduce the JPG quality to 70% Google should stop complaining and images still look good. The plugin is even free. Of course your images also have to be scaled properly.
Everything depends on how you build your frontend. The most important tip is, that you make sure, that bots can crawl and get access to all of your JS, CSS etc. files. As I understand, basically with REST API you build your DOM and your actual content is not in the source code. So just … Read more
I doubt your URL structure will matter much for SEO. For more advice on this you can ask a question on the Pro Webmasters Stack Exchange site. As Chip said you can change the Posts page under Settings → Reading to move your post index to http://example.com/blog/. The Front page is what people will see … Read more