How my title is viewed by search engines
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One of my students used an online checker and told me that my site title doesn’t look good to search engines because the apostrophe makes the code look bad–it doesn’t show up as normal.
Is that a concern? How can I fix that?
He also said I should have more metatags.
I want my blog to be more visible to people.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there,
Here are some tips to gain more traffic which you are encouraged to use:
1. https://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/
2. https://en.support.wordpress.com/grow-your-community/I’m not too sure on the issue with the metatags, so I’ll leave that to staff to help answer. In the meantime though, have you referred to this support article? https://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/
Let us know if you have any further questions or issues. :)
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He also said I should have more metatags.
Hi there,
The student is probably referring to meta descriptions.
An upgrade to the Business plan would be required if’d you’d like to add custom meta descriptions to posts and pages.
SEO Tools on the Business plan:
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Hi there,
Your site appears to be indexed just fine in Google:
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-ab&ei=N4OfW4TWFoTi8wWr8rPwAg&q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Ftodaysperfectmoment.wordpress.com%2F&oq=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Ftodaysperfectmoment.wordpress.com%2F&gs_l=psy-ab.3…6647.6647.0.6897.1.1.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0….0…1c.1.64.psy-ab..1.0.0….0.muFipTIv3c0
And if I search for the title “Today’s Perfect Moment” your site is the first search result that comes up.
I wouldn’t worry too much about this. Special characters in site and post titles can sometimes cause problems, but apostrophes and hyphens are very common and I’m sure Google takes that into consideration. And in those search results I see nothing wrong with how the title displays.
Meta tags are useful, but also not nearly as important as they were a few years ago. Google is much more worried about the actual content of your site than which and how many meta-tags you have added to your site.
We automatically create meta tags based on the site title and tagline you set, and the title, URL, and content of individual posts and pages. The SEO tools in our Business Plan gives you more direct control over that, but it’s not really necessary.
My advice is keep focusing on creating good-quality content, and use active promotion as described in the two links @torres126 gave above.
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