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Matt & Cindra McCoy
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January 30, 2016 at 8:04 pm
Hi,
I am working on SEO and when I search using different keywords I get weird pages of my site like this one http://www.artnookaiken.com/venues/art-nook/
I have checked all my pages and this does not exist. How do I make sure pages such as these do not show up in search engines?
Thanks,
Cindra
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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February 1, 2016 at 10:48 am
Hi Cindra,
Google has a starter guide for SEO here:
http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en//webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf
You may want to try sharing that page on social media if its not appearing in Google Webmaster Tools.
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Lorenzo
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Matt & Cindra McCoy
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February 1, 2016 at 11:42 am
My question was not really answered here. I am NOT wanting this page at all. I don’t want it showing up on google searches but really I don’t want it at all visible EVER.
Please help.
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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February 1, 2016 at 11:45 am
Hi Cindra,
Venues are part of the core plugin so here are a couple options:
1) Use a robots.txt file to instruct search engines to exclude the file.
2) Use a redirection plugin to setup a 301 redirect from that page to another page of your choice.
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Lorenzo
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Matt & Cindra McCoy
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February 1, 2016 at 12:23 pm
Don’t know how to do either…so which is easier?
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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February 1, 2016 at 2:08 pm
Hi Cindra,
I would go with option two since you could use that in other ways on your site.
For example, if you create a page with this link:
example.com/the-new-page/
…and visitors were going to that link from Google and then you change the link URL, then it would then become a broken link on your site.
If you are using a plugin like Redirection (https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/), then you could set up a 301 redirect to route traffic to an existing page to a new one. That tells search engines to update their index to have the new URL instead of the old one.
http://cl.ly/0L2b2K1j0X3i
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Lorenzo
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Matt & Cindra McCoy
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February 2, 2016 at 7:04 pm
Ok. Thanks! I did that so hopefully google will take the old URLs off.
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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February 3, 2016 at 9:47 am
Great! Were there any other questions that we could help you with?
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Lorenzo
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Matt & Cindra McCoy
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February 3, 2016 at 11:49 am
Not right now. Thanks!
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Matt & Cindra McCoy
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February 5, 2016 at 6:56 am
Hi Lorenzo,
Question: Since I have been working on my SEO. I was noticing that in each event there is a place for tags and also a place for slugs. Can you please explain to me how each of these areas can be used?
-Cindra
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Garth
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February 5, 2016 at 8:38 am
Slugs allow you to remove common words from the url that make your urls less keyword rich and focused, but you can do that by changing the event url slug below the event title.
Tags are like categories, they just add context and organization to your content. Tags in WordPress often have their own archive pages too so search engines can find content related to that tag.
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Matt & Cindra McCoy
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February 17, 2016 at 6:15 am
So should I be using tags to optimize SEO?
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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February 17, 2016 at 8:47 am
Hi Cindra,
This page has a good overview of using categories and tags for your WordPress site:
https://managewp.com/wordpress-categories-tags-seo
This has more thorough information about using tags:
https://managewp.com/how-to-tag-effectively
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Lorenzo
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Matt & Cindra McCoy
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February 20, 2016 at 5:31 am
I have read a million articles such as these. I really would like a straightforward answer to the question, will tags through EE help with SEO?
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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February 21, 2016 at 6:33 pm
Hi Cindra,
There are no guarantees with search engine optimization. Using tags on your WordPress site can help but it is not a secret solution to getting specific rankings in Google.
Here is a thorough list on ranking factors for Google:
http://backlinko.com/google-ranking-factors
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Lorenzo
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