The advanced tab is where you would set your nofollow, noindex and some other settings.

Here is what the Advanced tab looks like:

Here are some explanations of the most used settings:

  • Meta Robots Index: this is where you would tell it to index or not index the page. You would use not index for things like your about page and privacy policy page.
  • Meta Robots Follow: this is where you tell Google to follow or nofollow
  • Meta Robots Advanced: this has some other options for your meta robot settings.
  • Include in Sitemap: you can tell it to include or not include in sitemap. Again, you would not include in sitemap if it is items like your about page or privacy policy.
  • Sitemap Priority: You can leave this as default most of the time. You can set the priority from 1 (highest priority) to .1 (lowest priority)
  • Authorship: You can set this to show or not show authorship. For the most part, you will want it to always be show. I have also learned that this has resolved by issue with the rel=auth missing on some pages.
  • Canonical URL: per Google, canonical URLs mean: "you can use canonical URLs to improve link and ranking signals for content available through multiple URL structures or via syndication"
  • 301 Redirect: you can manually redirect this particular article to a new page on your site or on another site. You could use this to help prevent duplication of articles.

This page has a lot of great settings you can use to help with your site.

Now, let's take a look at the last tab, Social.



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Mark Tait Premium
Hi - great training and awareness - I used this on my last website, and like you, fell in love with it - it does really lead you through the basics, without trying to over complicate it.

Your training has put across far more eloquently than I can about this - so I'll stop here, and just say, thank you for posting!!

Cheers, Mark
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MontieE Premium
Awesome training and thanks for sharing!
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CoachEd Premium
Hey Eden, A lot of people use it ---very nice training you have posted.
thanks for taking your time to do it.
See-ya Later !!!

Coach Ed
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edensbox Premium
Thank you coach ed!
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merryman88 Premium
Thank you Eden, for this information , I will definitely try it on my sites sounds very a very good plug in.

Ray Bowley (Merryman88)
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edensbox Premium
Thank you Ray... you will find it is so easy to use :)
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mdshelley Premium
Cheers Edensbox, I'll check it out. I really need to spend more time on this stuff. Most of my time is spent writing content (I love to write!) but as a result I keep falling behind on the technical stuff and then wonder why my site isn't ranked so well! Anyway, thanks for sharing this and I'll try and put it into practice. Have a great day!
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edensbox Premium
This will make it so much easier because it tells you right there before you publish..
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