How to noindex a PDF file or any other media from WordPress?
Prevent Google and other search engines to index PDF / media files Simple answer: this is not possible, because when you load the URL of a media (a PDF, a JPG…), WordPress is simply not loaded, neither SEOPress. Your web-browser is directly opening your media, nothing more. How to secure sensitive media files? The minimum protection is to set the page where you have…
An Image Can Sell a Thousand Cars
People that are looking to buy a pre-owned luxury car are a great example of Google users who may prefer to use Google Images search rather than classic web search. If you were a luxury car dealership in the US, for example, it is likely that you could get a lot of visibility through being visible in Google Images with photos of cars you…
I can’t save any SEO metadata with the universal metabox!
Problem: when clicking the blue Save button from the universal SEO metabox, you get a spinning wheel that does not stop and nothing is saved if you refresh the page. The browser console returns a 403 error. Solution: disable this option “REQUEST-901-INITIALIZATION.conf” from OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set. Ask you host to handle this for you if necessary.
Google News July 2022
Google was not on vacation in July, releasing one important official update and releasing updated guidelines including the Quality Raters Guidelines. The July 2022 Product Review update was for English pages only, but a similar update is expected for languages very soon. If you write product reviews with outbound affiliate links, you should pay particular attention to this update whatever language you write in….
Master Guide: SEO for Business
This guide was written with the aim of introducing WordPress users to SEO, to help them understand the basic concepts of search engines and search engine optimization. It also gives some useful hand on tips that can help you improve ranking and traffic. Table of contents Introduction to WordPress SEO How search engines work and what to do about it (do SEO) Is WordPress…
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