SEO Q&A 2024
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- cherub
So how bad is it to let google crawl your new wordpress site while it is in production? I didn't see this checkbox in wp until now.
On a scale of 1 to Potato how fucked am I?
- pockets0
disable robots on install, build till approved. and hand it off to seo. good rule of thumb is to disable crawling in production but its not the end of the world.
- trooperbill1
If the domain is new you'll be fine. just be prepared for a lot of false positives such as broken links and dead urls showing up in google search console after launch.
as you dont currently have any backlinks these dont need redirecting etc.- <pockets
- I was more worried about starting to rank for keywords like "testing" and the like lol.cherub
- you and a billion other testing websitestrooperbill
- noneck1
The SEO company my client hired insisted that the dev site was password protected, in addition to having the "ask search engines not to crawl the site" option selected.
But they're a bunch of assholes. I can't fucking stand them.
- lolpockets
- Trooperbill is that necessary? The robots.txt is sometimes ignored I guess is the reasoning. Is it extreme tho?cherub
- robots is fine. likely theyve been burned by a test site competing with their main sitetrooperbill
- BusterBoy0
If I was launching a classifieds website with 15,000+ listings, how much should I budget to spend on SEO each month as a minimum?
- ive seen upwards of $4700/mo..do it yourselfpockets
- that 4700/mo was also including ppc thopockets
- I've budgeted $10K per mth. Don't have the time or knowledge to do it myself.BusterBoy
- make sure the URLs and html title tags be the title of the classified.hotroddy
- url structure is critical. example /automotive/carwash...hotroddy
- full-detail-red-corv...hotroddy
- ette-in-jacksonville...hotroddy
- as much as you can afford initially but after about 4 months look at the return and adjusttrooperbill
- cherub0
Just an FYI if anyone needs youtube SEO help I made a dedicated thread just for youtube SEO bcuz it's so different than anything else.
If you wanna rank on youtube search or suggested videos, bump the thread and I'll give you some pointers.
- youtube seo is oldskool seotrooperbill
- Thanks! Yes our URLs are structured properly...no loaction, but maybe I'll think about that.BusterBoy
- Does it matter if my <h1> tags have classes in them?
eg <h1 class="something">BusterBoy - Also...we need to have an ID in the URL. Is it ok to have something like
site.com/the-classif...BusterBoy - site.com/the-title-a...BusterBoy
- /the-title-abc123
Or does the abc123 need to be after or before the title. Eg
/abc123/the-title or /the-title/abc123BusterBoy - if the abc123 is the post id number I would say at the end of url string.hotroddy
- h1 can have classes. very commonhotroddy
- taBusterBoy
- hotroddy0
Busterboy here is an example
website.com/jobs/automotive/full...
You can acheive this with a mod-rewrite.
make sure you include the <title> <h1> name of classified title in html along with relevant info.
Make sure it's blazing fast on mobile. Speed optimization is the new SEO
- nb2
Oh shit. You are going to be very frustrated when you fail to sell any of your original products and instead get super rich selling Lorem Ipsums and Test This Should Be Body Copy Texts
- At the risk of making trooperbill cry, I forgot all about SEO. I was in the moment. Just wanted to get the site up and running asap.cherub
- hahahatrooperbill
- cherub0
TrooperBill,
These bathroom mirror selfie millenial burds are getting into your niche.
What say ye?
- Nairn1
Ah, this reminds me of that time I did a restaurant website in wordpress and completely didn't realise it was publishing to RSS through the production process, until client phoned me up and asked if the site had been a) finished and b) hacked.
Uh Oh. "er.. why?"
Turns out the expletive-laden filler content I'd used on my dev version had been found by a friend of the owner who then passed on her concerns.
d'oh.
- trooperbill0
i especially likt it when out of stock items are removed from websites meaning indexed pages bounce in and out. just take off the buy button and label out of stock, more coming soon, ot better still add a "email when back in stock" box to improve your email database lol
- trooperbill0
currently looking for a new job. after 8 years im done with my current agencies schenannigans. got a 4th interview on friday which hopefully seals the deal.
- cherub0
RE: the video I posted above
I don't think most people realize how important captions / subtitles have become. It's huge now.
Does it affect SEO?
You bet. Because now platforms like youtube and tiktok use AI to transcribe what you said in the video. The reason this is a game changer is because the AI will now use those same words you spoke, to create keywords and feed those into the algorithm. It evens creates auto chapter markers like this.
So all new videos uploaded will get their dialogue auto transcribed and added to the internet abyss.
This opens up new opportunities for non-speaking audiences as well, since now every video uploaded on youtube gets a subtitles track (albeit a clunky, auto generated one).
- i create keyword research for scripts for milwaukee toolstrooperbill
- That's a good brand. Milwaukee along with dewalt and mikita make some of the best worm drive saws and cordless drillscherub