Site map and Meta Tags
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I would like to change my XML site map. It automatically generates but I would like to be able to change it. Is this possible?
I would also like to change my meta tags for most of my pages. Is there a way to do this without directly inputting HTML?
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
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@zachdoug32
No modlook tag is required on this thread. I have already answered your question above accurately.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-taglineRe: Search Engines and Building Traffic
Here are more good references provided by Staff:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/ -
So there is no way I can edit a sitemap? I feel as if google is picking up that my main page is the first page in the sitemap which just so happens to be the least important/content minimal page on my site.
I understand meta tags do not effect ranking but I would still like to change them. That being said. There is no way to change meta description if i place the right html on my site? If the answer is no please feel free to respond that way.
Sorry if you feel like your answering the same question twice but you did not answer the question of whether I can edit my site map and I am going to go try and mess with the html to produce the meta I want unless there is a firm no. (Slightly lazy, but I do not want to try to make something work if in fact it will not)
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I guess you did answer the question about meta by letting me know we can not edit anything within <header>
I APPRECIATE YOU!
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You’re welcome. You may also want to read this:
Does Customize let me edit HTML?
No. Customize allows you to edit fonts, colors, and CSS only. You can change the appearance of a theme, but not its HTML markup or PHP code. If you require this functionality, please consider moving your blog to a web host that supports theme code modifications. You can read more about why here, and find a suitable host here. From: https://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/#frequently-asked-questions
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