SEO: Setting URL, Title and Description for each page of a wordpress.com website
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I am writing about a wordpress.com website. I am more familiar with wordpress.org self hosted websites. On wordpress.org, you can set the URL of a subpage (e.g. http://www.mysite.com/recipes) to be different than the title of the subpage “Asian noodle recipes”, which can be different from the page description “If you are looking for recipes to make Asian food, we have …. etc).
I am using Pages not Posts on wordpress.com. I would like to set the URL to be different from the title as well as the description for each page on the site. How do I do this? I can see how to set the URL of the homepage to be different than the homepage title, but I don’t see how to do this for each subpage. And I can’t see where to set the description for any of the pages.
I realize that the keywords field is not that useful to google indexing anymore, but where is that as well if I want to add keywords to that field?
Lastly, how do I set the URLs of the subpages to be different from the text in the navigation bar (e.g. if I have “About Us” or “Contact Us” in the navigation bar, but I want http://www.mysite.com/asianrecipes as the actual URL instead of http://www.mysite.com/contact-us ?
Thank You!
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This is what you can change. The Title and URL of a page are related by default. When you initially type the title of your page, the page slug (used in the permalink/URL) is automatically created. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-title-url/
You can do this if you use a custom menu. You can edit the label that appears in the navigation for each and every page or item in the menu if you wish. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
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I realize that the keywords field is not that useful to google indexing anymore, but where is that as well if I want to add keywords to that field?
There is no blogger access to metadata on WordPress.COM hosted blogs and we cannot add anything to the <heading> so be clear on that.
When it comes to SEO choosing to have a page based site rather than a post based site is a bad choice. A blog is a post based website designed for interactive communication. As the posts are frequently updated and appear on the front page of the site it’s very attractive to search engines.
What most people call a website is merely a page based site that functions as a one way noticeboard. As the structure is page based and as pages are for static content that rarely changes, and as pages do not have RSS feeds it is not as attractive to search engines as a post based blog structured site is.
Please read:
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/seo-and-your-blog/Also know that search engines are not fixated on keywords in categories and tags. They are not even required for SEO. What they are focused on is keywords in your post content.
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/03/01/revisiting-keywords-and-tags/
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/03/15/quick-blog-post-tagging-tips/
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/12/05/keyword-power-in-the-blogging-world/ -
I would not be doing what you are doing.
You have created static pages that will never automatically update. Technically you can’t post to more than one page on any blog but do read on. Static Pages and dynamic Category Pages are not the same. The former cannot automatically update but the latter do.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/If you want to have pages that do update then they must be replaced by dynamic category pages (and sub-category pages) that will automatically update every time you publish a post assigned to the relevant category and/or sub-category.
By default the front page of the blog is the post that displays all posts in your blog. Though there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts (not pages) http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ and we cannot post to more than that one page, we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page.
We organize posts by assigning categories to them. You can create a custom menu and add the dynamic categories and sub-categories pages into the custom menu, and order them as you wish.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menusFor a step by step approach see here http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/07/25/create-a-wordpress-website-step-by-step/
There are many misunderstandings and misconceptions when it comes to custom menus. I suggest you read these two posts I link to below.
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/posts-on-pages/ -
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