SEO
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My theme is Suburbia which doesnt seem to have editing facilities so i can get the website on the first page of a google search.
Cant get meta tags into html. If I cant do it I will have to try another free website author. Is that right? Or is there a free theme that allows optimizing. Apps seem to be for upgrades you pay for.
Any advice appreciated.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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This is a multi-user blogging platform. Our blogs share a common architecture and we bloggers cannot access metadata and add anything at all to the <header> http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/
That being said it’s of interest to note meta titles, meta descriptions and keyword metatags are not required for SEO purposes and Matt Cutts of Google has said that as far back as 2009. Search engines are focused on keywords in your content. What is important is keywords found in your content. http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/revisiting-keywords-and-tags/
WordPress.com SEO is very good. If you had two identical sites, one hosted here and one self-hosted using that same plugin, the site hosted here would have better SEO than the self-hosted site. WordPress.com has huge SEO and you get the benefit of that by having your site as a “subdomain” here.
Staff have published two helpful articles.
All About SEO on WordPress.com
https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/
SEO and Your Blog
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/seo-and-your-blog/To verify blog ownership of a WordPress.com blog with the major search engines you must use this process > http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/
Note: Even if you do not verify the blog the content will be indexed by search engines so don’t feel panicky about this please.Note also that WordPress.com automatically supplies sitemaps for our blogs to search engines – we do nothing. Read more on sitemaps here http://en.support.wordpress.com/sitemaps/#xml-sitemaps-for-search-engines
re: meta description
As we wordpress.COM bloggers do not have metadata access what’s important in terms of meta description are the keywords in the site title and the tagline:
http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/top-5-site-title-tag-tips/
http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/creating-an-effective-blog-taglineHere are more good references provided by Staff:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/
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