![]() ![]() These pages can often be thin or duplicate content which can cause warnings in Google Search Console. You obviously want pages and posts, but you usually don’t want tag, format, portfolio, and other pages to be shown in search results. Show Posts In – control whether posts/pages are indexed in search engines. Use this in your homepage SEO title + meta description. Homepage – the homepage usually targets a broad keyword about your main product/service (eg. Instead, I wrote this myself so it reads nicely: The Ideal Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin Settings (2020 Updated). If I relied on Yoast to create my SEO title using snippet variables, it would be longer than 60 characters and get cut off by Google, making my snippet look horrible. The title of this post you’re reading is 150+ characters long (well over the 60 character limit for SEO titles). Manually written snippets are always better than default snippet variables. You should take the time to write them so they sound nicer than a template. So as long as you’re writing these manually, they don’t matter. Snippet Variables – templates used for SEO titles + meta descriptions only IF you forget to write them, which you should never forget to do. Title Separator – when you’re using snippet variables, this is the dash (or other special character) usually between your page/post title and site name. Paste the last part of your sitemap URL into Google Search Console.On the left side of the dashboard, go to Sitemaps.Copy the last past of the URL: /sitemap_index.xml.Click the question mark icon by the XML Sitemaps option.In Yoast, go to General → Features → XML Sitemaps.I do not use Baidu Webmaster Tools since it’s confusing as I don’t read Chinese, and you need a Chinese phone number, but you can read this tutorial if you want to try.Repeat for Bing / Yandex (Russia’s largest search engine).Click “Verify” in Google Search Console.Delete everything outside of the quotations (including the quotations).Copy the code and paste into the Google Search Console field.Select the HTML tag verification method.I recommend using it to find technical errors and monitor rankings and CTRs. Do the same thing for Bing/ Yandex/ Baidu. Sign up for Google Search Console (most important) and use the HTML verification method to copy/paste your verification code. See what features you like, enable them, and disable the rest. I don’t need Ryte to constantly check whether my site is indexed in search engines (it obviously is), and I never use Yoast’s Admin Dropdown Menu. I use internal links naturally in my content and don’t need Yoast’s Text Link Counter reminding me to add them. I disabled a few of them… I don’t use the Readability Analysis since I don’t need Yoast grading my content (eg. Keep an eye on their blog for updates.īelow is a screenshot of each Yoast feature. Spend more time on content and start focusing on making your content as helpful as possible.ĭon’t click the button to enable Yoast indexables – there have been many complaints on their blog about this feature and it can really mess up your site. ![]() Yoast (and all SEO plugins) do very little for on-page SEO – most of it is advice.The most important places to use your focus keyword is in the page title, URL, SEO title, meta description, and once in the first couple sentences of the content body.Don’t stuff keywords in your text (or image alt text) to get green lights, that’s spammy!. ![]()
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