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If you’re building a website from scratch, you can add this to your purchase for free depending on the hosting you’re using. If not, you can ask the web developers assigned to your website to purchase the SSL and activate it. You can also see how to do it by yourself through this in-depth guide by HubSpot. Generate and submit an XML sitemap Tools to use: Google Search Console You can check if your website has a sitemap by entering in the search bar: SEO Hacker Sitemaps If your website doesn’t have one yet, you can use a plugin such as the Google Sitemap Generator Plugin by Arne Brachhold. You can also use o generate your sitemap.
XML sitemaps After you generate your sitemap, you need to submit it. To do that, you need to open Google Search Console, then click Sitemaps. You can then add your sitemap URL and submit. Submit XML sitemap Further reading: Ultimate Sitemap SEO Guide CY Lists Check your robots.txt To verify your website’s robots.txt, you can type in the search bar: Robots.txt If you don’t have one yet, open your Notepad and copy-paste the following: User-agent: * Disallow:php Sitemap: This is the default directive found in a basic robots.txt file. You can add other rules based on your needs. Once you’re done, save it as a .txt file and upload it to the root directory of your website.
You can ask the web developers to do so or you can contact your web hosting service provider to help you out. Further reading: The Complete Guide to Robots.txt and Noindex Meta Tag Check your robots meta tags Tools to use: Screaming to instruct search engines what to follow, what not to follow, what to index, and what not to index. It is found in the <head> section of your webpage. They usually look like this: <meta name=”robots” content=”noindex”> You can opt to press CTRL+U on an individual page to view the page source and check for the meta tag, or you can use Screaming Frog to check the directives in your website. Screaming Frog noindex For example, /category/marketing/ has a directive of noindex, follow.
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