Web Marketing SEO Part 7
Back again with more info on Google Webmasters Tools, plus some more SEO tactics you can use.
You will then need to verify your site, so choose the ‘Add a Meta Tag’ option. Below you will see a code, which you need to copy and paste into your site’s header. Open a new window and go into your WordPress Admin area. Go to ‘Appearance’ then ‘Theme Editor’ then select the Header from the list on the right-hand side. When it comes up, scroll down to where you see the </head> script and paste your meta tag code in just ABOVE this script and BEFORE the <body> script:-
Click ‘Update File’
Go back to your Webmaster Tools window and click on the ‘Verify’ button. If you have done everything correctly, you should get a message confirming verification.
Now, go back to your Webmaster Tools Dashboard and next to your site URL there will be a column titled ‘Sitemap’ – click on the link that says ‘Add’. Choose ‘Add General Web Sitemap’ and put in ‘sitemap.xml’ where required. Click on ‘Add General Web Sitemap’
Okay, I think we have probably finished with the WordPress ‘internals’ so we can look at more things we can do with regard to SEO that apply to any website.
You need to get some good content onto your site, if you haven’t already done so, before you move on to more SEO strategies. If you created your site on one of the website building sites, once you have put some content on your site and you have published it, you can use the following strategies, also .
Note: Google Webmaster Tools is able to be utilized on many of the website building sites, so although these notes are particularly aimed at WordPress, you can still use them to help get the SEO going on your other sites. You will generally be able to find all this sort of information under a ‘Settings’ tab when you are in edit mode on your website.
You can get your sites verified by pasting the meta tag code from the Google Webmasters Tools site into the appropriate box when you are in edit mode for your site on the website building site.
Back on the Google Webmasters Tools site, you can also often get your site sitemapped by typing in ‘sitemap.xml’ in the box next to your site’s address, after you have clicked on the ‘Add Sitemap’ button.
Check out the previous post which has information on getting started with Google Webmasters Tools.
Coming up in the next post – Links, RSS Feeds, and more. Don’t miss it!!
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