A website's launch is just the beginning. During the first month, search engines are getting to know the resource: how it works, what's published on it, and how quickly pages become accessible and relevant. If basic settings are overlooked early on, making adjustments later can cost time and sometimes even lead to a drop in visibility. Days 1–3: Lay the SEO Foundation First, make sure your site is crawled and indexed correctly. Enable and check webmaster tools (search consoles), check the domain/protocol (http/https, www/non-www), add a sitemap (sitemap.xml), and configure a proper robots.txt file. Separately check the basic technique: canonical, redirects (301) to changed URLs, the absence of “broken” pages, the correct server response (200/301/404), and also that important pages are not closed from indexing. Days 3–7: Technical Speed and Indexing Conduct an initial performance audit: evaluate the loading speed of key pages and mobile accessibility. Optimizing images, minimi...
Can social networks replace a website? Can social networks replace a website? I hear this question very often from people who have pages on social networks, but do not have their own resource. I can immediately answer simply, business cards can be very good for a website. But for a deployed resource, no, since dynamic site modules are very well indexed by search engines. Let's start with the fact that the site must work correctly, that is, it must initially be normal for perception and correctly selected in terms of titles and descriptions. Further, new information in the form of texts, images and videos should appear on it at least sometimes, or better yet, if the latter is available. And social networks can provide good traffic to the resource. Which is absolutely logical, especially since such links are very significant. There is an opinion that users of social networks are mainly young people, everything is ambiguous here. It depends on which network. If you think about it, b...