What is a Content Delivery Network (CDN)?

A content delivery network (CDN) is a network of servers that deliver content. The purpose of the CDN is to cache and more quickly serve static content based on the geographical location between the origin server (the server your site is hosted on) and the user making the request. This means when someone in Japan visits your website hosted in…

How does Sitemaps Help Search Engines

How does Sitemaps Help Search Engines

Sitemaps help search engines successfully crawl your website by making it easier to find all the site’s pages and links. A sitemap is not required for a website, but it can help improve search engine optimization. What is a Sitemap? A sitemap informs search engines that individual pages on your site are new or updated and are available for crawling….

Why is my Site not Showing Up on Search Engine Results Pages (SERP)?

Why is my Site not Showing Up on Search Engine Results Pages (SERP)?

There are several reasons why a site might not show up in search engine results pages. Here are the most common ones: 1. The search engines haven’t indexed the site yet. Sometimes it can take a week or more for a search engine to find your website. This is because your website is new and doesn’t have any inbound links….

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How to Check Google Indexing of a WordPress Website

Making sure search engines can crawl your website and the information displays properly in its search results is an important part of search engine optimization. Following are the steps to perform Google SEO of a WordPress website 1. Improve Google Indexing Follow the previous post How to Improve Google Indexing of a WordPress Website. 2. Add image descriptions in WordPress…

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How to Improve Google Indexing of a WordPress Website

You can use the following steps to make sure your WordPress site can be crawled, indexed, and displayed properly to allow for optimal SEO ranking. Confirm your WordPress site can be indexed Log into WordPress Go into the Settings > Reading. Make sure the setting for Discourage search engines from indexing this site is unchecked. Confirm search engines can properly index all pages…

What is WordPress Caching & How to Install W3 Total Cache Plugin

How to Evaluate Performance Report for WordPress

A slow website can lower page views, customer satisfaction, and even conversion rate. How fast does your WordPress site load? Evaluate site performance with PageSpeed Insights You can use Google Developer’s PageSpeed Insights to analyze the load time of your website. Go to Google Developer’s PageSpeed Insights tool. Enter your domain where it says “Enter a web page URL“ Click Analyze. View…

What is the difference between ‘Organic’ vs Paid Search Engine Listings?

What is the difference between ‘Organic’ & Paid Search Engine Listings?

Whenever you search something on the search engines, most of the search engines display a combination of organic and paid search results when answering user’s queries. The organic are the main results — often labeled “Web Results” or something similar. Paid listings are displayed separately on search result pages and generally listed as “Sponsored” results. The organic search results returned…