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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: SEO and WordPress for websiteHave now found the theme’s forum so it’s all good. Thank you to those who took time to help me. 🙂
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: SEO and WordPress for websiteYou’ve been very generous with your time @bcworkz. Thank you. That’s a good tip about the themes. How would I know if they offer help in a theme forum? Do I download and demo, or is there a quick way to know this?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: SEO and WordPress for websiteThanks so much. So what I’m taking away from this is that:
New page URLs should be similar to old ones to facilitate SEO
I should arrange 301 redirects from old pages to new ones (I’m not sure how long I should do that for or if it’s permanent?)I go into a customer page with a different login and up pops wordpress. My existing site is still up and about. I’m playing with templates etc in the ‘safe’ space of the development site.
I guess I would just download the Better Search and Replace plugin and follow any instructions to help it to do its job from then on.
At present I’m just trying to choose from 3500 design templates. #toomuchchoice
Much obliged for your very helpful advice. I’m sure I’ll get there..
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: SEO and WordPress for websiteI probably need to explain this better. I have an ISP who hosts a site which I can manage myself without using html etc. The same ISP will be hosting my WordPress site (using Linux I think, but don’t quote me – Until recently I thought that was someone off Snoopy).
They will host my wp site. They are giving me some development time before I go live. Then the switch will take place.
They said: “We would pre-install the
WordPress software along with a couple of security plugins to get you
going.”I have to then do something with Google Console to trigger crawls.
Does that help?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: SEO and WordPress for websiteThank you for your time with this. At present I have a site a bit like wix.
Would it be ok from an SEO perspective to simply set up my new wk site on WP, use the SEO plugin recommended by the poster above and pray to the gods of Google?
The home page would have the same title I guess. My ISP says I could put my new site together, see what happened and then switch off the other site. I am fantasizing that this would be a nice simple option!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: SEO and WordPress for website@a2hostingrj Thank you. You make it sound like a good quick fix! If it’s fairly intuitive, I should be able to do that.
@bcworkz Would you have time to explain “on an existing static HTML site and maintain the existing pages while adding more content via WP” To me, this means to retain my existing site but somehow to have 301 redirects to the new additional pages on WP with a similar name. Am I wrong there?
I know what CMS stands for, but I’m not sure in layman’s terms what ” lose the benefit of a CMS for those existing pages” means for me. Again, if you could dumb that down for me too, I’d be grateful.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Need more detail to installThanks. I realised having gone all round the wreakin that you can’t use plugins with the free version of WordPress, only the hosted one at WordPress.org, hence the problem. Thanks again for responding.