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Is it a good practice to delete old posts (more than 1-year old one) that are not ranking in Google but are on page 1 of Bing and Yahoo?
If not then is it okay to keep them
Hi - you may wish to read Partha's advice on how to audit these posts to decide on your next action. I Would Charge You $1000 For Doing This - Here’s How to Do it For FREE (Basic Site Audit)
Hi
I agree with Slavka6 has advised, keep your old posts and update with new data. If your post is not ranking in google then it probably needs more useful info in the post.
Should i delete the old posts that are not ranking in google but.?
Is it a good practice to delete old posts (more than 1-year old one) that are not ranking in Google but are on page 1 of Bing and Yahoo?
If not then is it okay to keep them
Take Diane's advice below., on Partha's blog. That is really where to get your answer!
Enjoy your weekend!
Cheers,
Maria
Hi - you may wish to read Partha's advice on how to audit these posts to decide on your next action. I Would Charge You $1000 For Doing This - Here’s How to Do it For FREE (Basic Site Audit)
Hi
I agree with Slavka6 has advised, keep your old posts and update with new data. If your post is not ranking in google then it probably needs more useful info in the post.
What is the best and easiest way to find out the indexing and rankings of your post in search engine
So, I want to know the indexing and rankings of my posts (older and some new ones) in search engines. What is the best and easiest way to do it?
I know there are some steps
Hi - take a look at this post I wrote about Search Console Impressions, I do mention how to find what keywords you are ranking for. More on Search Console Impressions
Google search console and Google analytics , you can type search Google console for indexing. You can also use Search Console to check whether a specific page is indexed. To do that, paste the URL into the URL Inspection tool.
If I paste the URL of my post and GSC doesn't show any result this means that post is not indexed at all right?
Or is it that the post is indexed in Google but not with that URL? How do I interpret the results of URL inspection?
Site rank and in Jaaxy.
You may check out Site Rank in Jaaxy.
You may input your keyword and domain name.
First your posts get indexed and often days later down the line start getting noticed provided targeted keywords are searchable, new websites can rank efficiently.
But typically "authority" for a website starts to get established through time, usually the 3-6 month mark.
They fluctuate up and down the scale till Google decides where to place them.
Not all posts will get ranked, thus the recommendation to keep updating blog 2 - 3 posts a week and that's for the foreseeable future.
https://my.jaaxy.com/siterank/search
You may also like to review Kyle's resource
. 4 Things You Need to Understand About Your SEO Rankings
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What is the best and easiest way to find out the indexing and rankings of your post in search engine
So, I want to know the indexing and rankings of my posts (older and some new ones) in search engines. What is the best and easiest way to do it?
I know there are some steps
Hi - take a look at this post I wrote about Search Console Impressions, I do mention how to find what keywords you are ranking for. More on Search Console Impressions
Google search console and Google analytics , you can type search Google console for indexing. You can also use Search Console to check whether a specific page is indexed. To do that, paste the URL into the URL Inspection tool.
If I paste the URL of my post and GSC doesn't show any result this means that post is not indexed at all right?
Or is it that the post is indexed in Google but not with that URL? How do I interpret the results of URL inspection?
Site rank and in Jaaxy.
You may check out Site Rank in Jaaxy.
You may input your keyword and domain name.
First your posts get indexed and often days later down the line start getting noticed provided targeted keywords are searchable, new websites can rank efficiently.
But typically "authority" for a website starts to get established through time, usually the 3-6 month mark.
They fluctuate up and down the scale till Google decides where to place them.
Not all posts will get ranked, thus the recommendation to keep updating blog 2 - 3 posts a week and that's for the foreseeable future.
https://my.jaaxy.com/siterank/search
You may also like to review Kyle's resource
. 4 Things You Need to Understand About Your SEO Rankings
See more comments
If you have more than 250 posts that need to be updated with a more in-depth keyword research process to improve search engine rankings what would you do?
Update the posts o
Newbie here. From what I learned recently. Updating your site would be best! I would elaborate or add on to your posts and grow from them. I would also link a new post to an old post. You don't want to start the searches from scratch. Plus Im sure your older posts offer value and you want to keep that on your site.
Updating is the best way to go. First of all the site you have has domain age which will help with the updated posts being ranked.
I just recently did a website update audit, and I removed 165 posts and then updated the remaining 220.
And I just did that as part of my content strategy, I kept creating new content, and then I updated the old content at the same time
Also, the BIG myth is that Google uses content frequency as a ranking factor.
While the frequency may increase how often Google checks your website, it is not the same as freshness and is not a ranking factor.
John Mueller, Search Advocate at Google, When asked whether Google’s algorithms take posting frequency into account, he responded that they do not.
If you want to learn more about the difference between freshness and frequency there is a great article on Search Engine Journal
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-freshness-works/457485/
Thank you for your reply and for sharing the link to a very informative article.
May I ask the reason that prompted you to remove 165 posts?
None of them after years ever saw any real ranking and no impressions - and with that many useless posts it definitely was hurting my sites overall ranking
If the posts have been published it has a URL and has been indexed by the search engines. And the problem with archiving them. Which would be changing the post back to a draft.
It now creates a 404 error. Now the 404 itself doesn't hurt your SEO. But it does cause a bad experience for people. And that does.
Personally, if I was going to save stuff I was deleting for whatever reason I would go old school and copy and paste them into word.
Then delete the posts, and either redirect the old URL to a post or page that better helps my visitors, this way you avoid a 404 error.
You can also use plugins that will do that for you if you don't have cPanel access allowing you to do it at the server level.
Hope that helps
Helps A LOT! I didn't realize the 404 would happen if you archive them. Mine archive or re-categorize after a few weeks. I think my them does that automatically I hate the 404 experience. It makes me question the site.Glad to know it could happen when you do this. I am not fully verse in WP - so Im still learning Thanks for the clarity.
Anytime you move or delete a post or page it will cause a 404. As long as you create a redirect you're fine.
Here's another tip avoid redirecting to your home page. Google does not like that as in most cases it's not helpful to your visitors
Updating your current one and give yourself some time to write new relevant content.
Updating usually takes to the one year mark.
You can edit ALL except changing the URL. If the URL changes to Google it would be a new post, any ranking that has been done would be lost.
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What is better? creating a new website or updating the old one?
If you have more than 250 posts that need to be updated with a more in-depth keyword research process to improve search engine rankings what would you do?
Update the posts o
Newbie here. From what I learned recently. Updating your site would be best! I would elaborate or add on to your posts and grow from them. I would also link a new post to an old post. You don't want to start the searches from scratch. Plus Im sure your older posts offer value and you want to keep that on your site.
Updating is the best way to go. First of all the site you have has domain age which will help with the updated posts being ranked.
I just recently did a website update audit, and I removed 165 posts and then updated the remaining 220.
And I just did that as part of my content strategy, I kept creating new content, and then I updated the old content at the same time
Also, the BIG myth is that Google uses content frequency as a ranking factor.
While the frequency may increase how often Google checks your website, it is not the same as freshness and is not a ranking factor.
John Mueller, Search Advocate at Google, When asked whether Google’s algorithms take posting frequency into account, he responded that they do not.
If you want to learn more about the difference between freshness and frequency there is a great article on Search Engine Journal
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-freshness-works/457485/
Thank you for your reply and for sharing the link to a very informative article.
May I ask the reason that prompted you to remove 165 posts?
None of them after years ever saw any real ranking and no impressions - and with that many useless posts it definitely was hurting my sites overall ranking
If the posts have been published it has a URL and has been indexed by the search engines. And the problem with archiving them. Which would be changing the post back to a draft.
It now creates a 404 error. Now the 404 itself doesn't hurt your SEO. But it does cause a bad experience for people. And that does.
Personally, if I was going to save stuff I was deleting for whatever reason I would go old school and copy and paste them into word.
Then delete the posts, and either redirect the old URL to a post or page that better helps my visitors, this way you avoid a 404 error.
You can also use plugins that will do that for you if you don't have cPanel access allowing you to do it at the server level.
Hope that helps
Helps A LOT! I didn't realize the 404 would happen if you archive them. Mine archive or re-categorize after a few weeks. I think my them does that automatically I hate the 404 experience. It makes me question the site.Glad to know it could happen when you do this. I am not fully verse in WP - so Im still learning Thanks for the clarity.
Anytime you move or delete a post or page it will cause a 404. As long as you create a redirect you're fine.
Here's another tip avoid redirecting to your home page. Google does not like that as in most cases it's not helpful to your visitors
Updating your current one and give yourself some time to write new relevant content.
Updating usually takes to the one year mark.
You can edit ALL except changing the URL. If the URL changes to Google it would be a new post, any ranking that has been done would be lost.
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A few of my posts in Google Search results do not show the meta description that I wrote while publishing the post.
It shows the Title and description I used for my email ma
Like everyone is saying here, Google makes the final decision. What can you learn from what Google chose? Do you think the meta description represents your content. Generally Google choses something that will give your post the best possible ranking.
if google finds something more relevant to the search query it will use that...
so that means your meta description is a little wide of hte mark for the search query and is worth adjusting towards what you you used in your email marketing template....
then it may use what you write...
you don't dictate to google....
have fun
phil
Meta descriptions are just a "suggestion" of what Google should display, it's up to Google what description it decides to use :)
Hey
It is up to Google what is appropriate to display for max user experience.
Thank you.
Lula
Meta description in search results. what is the problem?
A few of my posts in Google Search results do not show the meta description that I wrote while publishing the post.
It shows the Title and description I used for my email ma
Like everyone is saying here, Google makes the final decision. What can you learn from what Google chose? Do you think the meta description represents your content. Generally Google choses something that will give your post the best possible ranking.
if google finds something more relevant to the search query it will use that...
so that means your meta description is a little wide of hte mark for the search query and is worth adjusting towards what you you used in your email marketing template....
then it may use what you write...
you don't dictate to google....
have fun
phil
Meta descriptions are just a "suggestion" of what Google should display, it's up to Google what description it decides to use :)
Hey
It is up to Google what is appropriate to display for max user experience.
Thank you.
Lula
I have been asked to provide a link, keyword, and site name to add a 'dofollow' link from an external website.
This is in exchange for adding that website's affiliate progr
Hi,
It's from HostNoc hosting services. They wanted me to add their affiliate program details in one of my existing posts and they will add a dofollow link to my website.
I have checked the website details from which this dofollow link will come. It is a legit and genuine website.
I am confused on which link, and keyword to provide to get this dofollow link.
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What link or keyword to provide for a dofollow link?
I have been asked to provide a link, keyword, and site name to add a 'dofollow' link from an external website.
This is in exchange for adding that website's affiliate progr
Hi,
It's from HostNoc hosting services. They wanted me to add their affiliate program details in one of my existing posts and they will add a dofollow link to my website.
I have checked the website details from which this dofollow link will come. It is a legit and genuine website.
I am confused on which link, and keyword to provide to get this dofollow link.
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Take Diane's advice below., on Partha's blog. That is really where to get your answer!
Enjoy your weekend!
Cheers,
Maria