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SEO Checklist: What to Do in the First Month After Launch

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...

Important points on the site that you should always remember, and first of all about the convenience of your visitors

  Important points on the site that you should always remember, and first of all about the convenience of your visitors. Otherwise, after viewing, there is a chance that the resource will be abandoned. Statistics show well in this regard. If a guest leaves the site quickly, it means that you are not interesting to him. Or he is not satisfied with the cost of the goods, services. Or maybe the site is simply not convenient for surfing. What can interest a visitor? Of course, with interesting articles and images, but he does not always get to the blog page or gallery. Therefore, a convenient thing is a search at the top of the site, as well as various informers in the sidebar. It is also called a sidebar, and those who say that it is ugly, take a newspaper, a book, a notebook in your hands, there are always margins. And on the monitor, a convenient part for reading, which is 700-900 pixels, it is simply uncomfortable to read wider. Contacts at the top, social networks at the bottom, e...

What services contribute to better website indexing

  What services contribute to better website indexing What services contribute to better indexing of the site? Let's start with the fact that the main thing for Google is the webmaster's office. Which is now called Google Search Console, and adding a site there first of all. The second thing is, of course, Google analytics, which can be easily linked to the above in the settings. My business, a point on the map, here it is mandatory to fill in as much as possible. Namely, a photo, description, goods, services, a link to your resource and social networks. Moreover, if your site has a blog, short entries with a link to the main articles will complement it perfectly. Write a post, add it to the search, take an image, a little text, copy the link and add the entry to the map. Next, YouTube, if it exists and your channel is fully verified, links from it to the site are also a good solution for promotion. Although they are not visible as referring, since the owner of Google probably ...

Setting up Wordpress micro-markup, and more for posts

  Setting up Wordpress micro-markup, and more for posts I am sometimes asked and asked for help with Wordpress sites, of course, my profile is not quite my own, but I can't refuse regular customers. What is most often missing on this system for a site? Correct micro-markup, comments and ratings. What to do when you need to do it quickly, in this CMS the best solution is plugins, their number is simply off the charts, but there are not so many good ones, more often high-quality ones in the extended version are paid. But there are also good ones for free. Now I will simply list some. It is also worth remembering that your version must be compatible, moreover, sometimes you need to update PHP. Let's start with the main thing, namely access to file uploads, for example, you need to confirm the site in the Google  webmaster account  . Install  the file manager  , moreover, it will be useful for uploading if you want to make a web manifest and several s...