There are many articles about WordPress SEO on the Internet, but the views in some articles are not completely correct, and many are even misleading. Today, Yiyou is here to correct some common sense mistakes in WordPress SEO.
1. Is a right column template more beneficial to SEO than a left column template?
In an article talking about SEO about WordPress template selection, I saw this statement: Because website content is generally crawled from left to right and top to bottom. If you happen to have several sidebars on the left, search websites will first crawl your links, RSS and other content.
People with a little knowledge of web page layout should know that it is the job of CSS to decide where the sidebar should appear on the left and right sides. CSS can make the content at the back of the code be arranged in the front, and it can also make the content at the front of the code be displayed at the back. Therefore, the right column template does not guarantee that the side column will be crawled by search engines, and the left column layout does not guarantee that the side column will be crawled by search engines. Search engines read the sidebar content first.
2. Is Simple Tags’ Autolink a feature that benefits SEO?
Simple Tags is the most used third-party tag management plugin on WordPress. This plug-in provides a function to automatically add links to the tag archive page for tag text that appears in the body content. So is this feature good for SEO?
Yiyou’s point of view: Not only is it useless, but it is harmful! Autolink is ostensibly a function that can enhance the internal links of a blog. However, because this function is not mature enough, the number of links cannot be controlled during the process of adding internal links, which leads to serious dispersion of article weights. It has the opposite effect on SEO. For websites with little content like blogs, the construction of internal links must be very restrained.
3. If you use noindex, will your followers be plucked out by Baidu?
In order to effectively control search engines' crawling of WordPress archive pages, we generally use noindex and follow meta robots to control search engines' indexing of blog pages. However, since Baidu cannot recognize conditional meta robots, noindex and follow are not valid for Baidu under normal circumstances.
But why do people keep telling everyone not to use noindex and follow to avoid being plucked out by Baidu? The main function of meta robots is to control the crawling of a single page by search engines. Even if Baidu recognizes this attribute, it only concerns one page. If this page If one attribute causes the entire site to be plucked, that would be too demonizing Baidu.
In fact, if you are plucked out by Baidu, you should first check whether you have done anything to offend Baidu.
Author: Chengdu SEO
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