Can we have an explanation or a 'how to' section on using the SEO settings?
Can we have an explanation or a 'how to' section on using the SEO settings?
For those of us that aren't SEO wizards an instruction manual explaining what each of the SEO fields does and how to use them would be more than useful!
Rob
shared this idea
You now have next to each SEO field, a tool tip with information.
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alana
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Thank you Peter!
That is very helpful!
Alana,
The Webydo Team -
Peter (Sito Pedro & Prowebsite) commented
content-language
Declares the primary natural language(s) of the document.
May be used by search engines to categorize by language.
<META HTTP-EQUIV="CONTENT-LANGUAGE" CONTENT="en-US">allow search
Where several user-agents are recognized in the robots.txt file,
Google will follow the most specific. If you want all of Google to be able
to crawl your pages, you don't need a robots.txt file at all.audience
This helps you to better target your international/multilingual audience through:
<link rel=”alternate” hreflang="a-different-language" href="http://url-of-the-different-language-page" />target
Google Search returns the most relevant and useful sites in response to a user query.
For that reason, the results shown to a user in Ireland
can vary from the results returned to a user in France.
If your site has a generic top-level domain, such as .com or .org, and targets users
in a particular geographic location, you can provide Google with information
to help determine how your site appears in the search results.
If your site has a country-coded top-level domain (such as .be) it is already associated
with a geographic region (in this example, Belgium).
In this case, you won't need/be able to specify a geographic location.classification
I THINK it's content-related (adult content),
but I can't find any relevant information.copyright
A copyright statement.
<META NAME="COPYRIGHT" CONTENT="© 2015 Peter Noblesse">key-phrase
It may sound obvious, but if you want to rank for a certain set of keywords,
but Google doesn't even see those keyword phrases on your website,
then ranking for those phrases will be difficult.
Verify that Google detected the same phrases you believe are of high importance.
Login to webmaster tools, select your verified site,
and choose Page analysis from the Statistics tab.
Here, under "Common words in your site's content,"
Google lists the phrases detected from your site's content in order of prevalence.
If you're missing important phrases, you should first review your content.canonical
While Google encourages the use, it's not required.
If you don't indicate a canonical URL,
Google identifies what it thinks to be the best version or URL.
Still I strongly suggest to Set your preferred domain:
Tell Google which version of your site's URL you prefer for your domain:
http://www.example.com
http://example.com
If you set your preferred domain as http://example.com,
Google treats links to http://www.example.com
exactly the same as links to http://example.com.author
The author's name.
<META NAME="AUTHOR" CONTENT="Peter Noblesse">google conversion code (id + label)
This free tool in AdWords can show you what happens after customers click on your ad
(for example, whether they purchased your product, called from a mobile phone,...).AND HERE IS PART 2
Google site verification
is explained in
http://participate.webydo.com/knowledgebase/articles/307226-how-to-add-google-webmaster-verification-code -
Since chat support DOES NOT seem to have the appropriate information,
(The answer was: "I’m so sorry but we do not offer support regarding this issue - I’d advise you to please contact an SEO expert for assistance.")
I'd like to get this thing started...
Did some research this weekend,I'll post all that I found.
If some of you could help, only by pointing out HOW to fill in the SEO- fields , it would be VERY much appreciated...
(for example: "Content - language": should we simply fill the field with "en-US", or with "<META HTTP-EQUIV="CONTENT-LANGUAGE" CONTENT="en-US">" ??
Here we go:
change frequency
<changefreq>
Provides a hint about how frequently the page is likely to change. Valid values are:
always. Use for pages that change every time they are accessed.
hourly
daily
weekly
monthly
yearly
never. (Use this value for archived URLs)
(similar to "revisit after")priority 0.8
<priority>
Describes the priority of a URL relative to all the other URLs on the site.
This priority can range from 1.0 (extremely important) to 0.1 (not important at all).
Note that the priority tag does not affect your site ranking in Google search results.
Priority values are only considered relative to other pages on your site
so, assigning a high priority (or specifying the same priority for all URLs)
will NOT boost your entire site search ranking.revisit after
indicates, when a spider can re-index your site.
depends on how often you change the content.
so, if you change once a month, you should use
<meta name="revisit-after" content="1 month">
robots
You can use a special HTML <META> tag to tell robots
not to index the content of a page, and/or not scan it for links to follow.
Like any <META> tag it should be placed in the HEAD section of an HTML page.
You should put it in every page on your site,
because a robot can encounter a deep link to any page on your site.
Valid values for the "CONTENT" attribute are: "INDEX", "NOINDEX", "FOLLOW", "NOFOLLOW".
Multiple comma-separated values are allowed,
but obviously only some combinations make sense.
If there is no robots <META> tag, the default is "INDEX,FOLLOW",
so there's no need to spell that out. That leaves:
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, FOLLOW">
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX, NOFOLLOW">
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">pragma
This directive indicates cached information should not be used
and instead requests should be forwarded to the origin server.
This directive has the same semantics as the CACHE-CONTROL:
NO-CACHE directive and is provided for backwards compatibility with HTTP/1.0.
<META HTTP-EQUIV="PRAGMA" CONTENT="NO-CACHE">googlebot
In addition to the ROBOTS META Command above, Google supports a GOOGLEBOT command.
With it, you can tell Google that you do not want the page archived,
but allow other search engines to do so. If you specify this command,
Google will not save the page and the page will be unavailable via its cache.
See Google's FAQ.
<META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE"> -
Anonymous
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And last one (for now). I'm assuming that webydo automatically generates a blank robots.txt file. Is the Googlebot field in the SEO params then an opportunity to amend a blank robots.txt file to declare URL's that you don't want crawled - for instance, if one has multiple landing pages about the same subject, but each page is set up to respond to different internal links and incoming links - in which case you may not want all of the landing pages crawled.
If the googlebot field is indeed a blank robots.txt amendment field, do we simply input into that field the entirety of what the custom robots.txt file should be - then you copy and paste? -
Anonymous
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Also, right now the priority value for the xml sitemap is global, can that be revised to allow input of different priority values for each page?
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Anonymous
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While waiting for this tutorial, can you specify if
1) the entire html string needs to be input in the seo fields, i.e. for pragma field:
<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">
2) or if you just need to input the tag values, i.e. for robots:
index, nofollow
3) if it is #2, then what is the appropriate separator? comma? semi-colon? -
geoff
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and what do we do in the meantime ? :)
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Julian Gordon
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I would like to add my vote to an article and explanation of the advanced SEO parameters. At least include a short explanation of what each is on the design page.
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Francois
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Add the ability to do SEO image optimization
Right now our image's name are being changed when uploaded into names like this :
3958_dbe1e538-ab5e-46f6-9e2a-9d21d82751d9.jpg
which means nothing for the search engines spiders. -
Shaun Hyland
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Yeah, all for a video tutorial on advanced SEO options. Would be great.
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Olivia - Webydo Team
commented
Hi all!
This is being worked on as we speak so should be with us soon!
:)
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Richard
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Yes, please put the advanced SEO tutorial together. There are a bunch of fields and I have no idea what to put in them. Thanks!
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Rob
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Nir, is this likely to appear soon?
Thanks
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Anonymous
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This would be really really helpful. The chat support team is great but they are not too sure about the advanced SEO options avaialble. A tutorial explaining how to use those advanced features will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks