How do I make my WordPress site searchable on Google?

How do I make my WordPress site searchable on Google?

How to get your site found and indexed by Google:

1. Create an XML sitemap with Yoast SEO. An XML sitemap is a file that contains information about your website.
2. Set up an account with Google Search Console.
3. Add your sitemap to Google Search Console.
4. And/or, submit your most important individual pages in Google Search Console.

How do I create a Google site link?

To use an existing sitelink, select “Use existing” and select the sitelinks that you’d like to add. To create a new sitelink, select “Create new”. Fill out the sitelink text and URL. Enter additional text about your link in the “Description” fields (optional, but highly recommended).

How do you change the links that appear under your site on Google?

How to change the links that appear under your site on Google

1. On the Search Console home page, select the site you want to edit the links for.
2. Click ‘Search Appearance’ to expand this, and then click ‘Sitelinks’.
3. In the ‘For this search result’ box, complete the URL for the page you don’t wish to display a sitelink.

How do I add Sitelinks to my WordPress site?

How to add a Sitelinks Searchbox to your site

1. Verify you have a functioning search engine. For 99.5% of WordPress sites, this one is simple: you type example.com/?
2. Add the necessary markup (Yoast SEO does this automatically)
3. Set up a preferred canonical URL for your homepage (Yoast SEO does this automatically)

Why doesn’t my WordPress site appear on Google?

Why isn’t my site showing up in Google? Search engines can take 4-6 weeks or more to show any newly created sites. Make sure your site’s privacy settings are set to Public, with the option “Do not allow search engines to index my site” not selected.

What is a Google site link?

Sitelinks are links from the same domain that are clustered together under a web result. Our systems analyze the link structure of your site to find shortcuts that will save users time and allow them to quickly find the information they’re looking for.

How do I get organic website links?

Just head to the Organic Keywords report in Ahrefs’ Site Explorer, select “Sitelinks” from the SERP features dropdown, then toggle the “Only linking to target” box. If you feel a result is not what should be showing, use the information above to make changes that may impact the sitelinks shown.

How do I change my site title on Google WordPress?

Changing the SEO Titles and Meta Descriptions for Archives

1. Login to your WordPress site.
2. Navigate to the Yoast SEO Plugin.
3. Click on “Search Appearance” on the left side of the menu.
4. Navigate to Archives along the top of the page.
5. Change the “SEO title” and “Meta description”

How do I enable sitelinks?

The rules are simple:

1. Use text to create your internal links.
2. Use proper anchor text.
3. Build more internal links to the pages you want to appear as sitelinks. In other words, the pages that have many internal links pointing to them, are likely to appear as sitelinks.