WordPress Site Brought Live, SEO Plugins Activated & Set Up, Styling
- Deactivated the Coming Soon plugin.
- Set ROBOTS.TXT to allow search engine indexing (ie: Unchecked “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” in settings.)
- Activated Yoast SEO plugin.
- Set XML sitemap to not index Cancelled Transaction, Checkout, and Thank You pages. (Really? This setting page could not be found in the plugin’s administration area a few days later!)
- Added site to Google Webmaster Tools. Uploaded verification file, verified & submitted Yoast-generated XML sitemaps.
- Activated statistics plugin on Ancient Greek Keyboard.
- Edited styles to center text on 404 Error pages.
- Edited styles to change button color to navy.
- Within 3-4 hours of adding the site to Webmaster tools, 5 pages had already appeared on Google’s search engine.
- Added meta descriptions to a few indexed pages.
Other posts in this series:
- Manual eCommerce Site Setup On SiteGround: Day 1
- Manual eCommerce Site Setup On SiteGround: Day 2
- Manual eCommerce Site Setup On SiteGround: Day 3
- Manual eCommerce Site Setup On SiteGround: Day 4
- Manual eCommerce Site Setup On SiteGround: Day 5
- Manual eCommerce Site Setup On SiteGround: Day 6
- Manual eCommerce Site Setup On SiteGround: Day 7
- Manual eCommerce Site Setup On SiteGround: Day 8: (Site brought live)
- Manual eCommerce Site Setup On SiteGround: Week 2
- Manual eCommerce Site Setup On SiteGround: Week 3
- Manual eCommerce Site Setup On SiteGround: Week 4
- Week 5: Speed optimization tests
- Manual eCommerce Site Setup On SiteGround: Week 6
- How to convert a non-WWW WordPress site to WWW