The most frequently asked questions in WordPress and SEO [Part Two].

Given the wide spread of WordPress at the present time, and the large number of sites built with WordPress, and the fact that the SEO site in Arabic is primarily focused on SEO and search engines, we had discussed in a previous article about the most frequently asked questions in WordPress, where we talked in the first part about five questions and touched on their answers. In this part, we will continue what we started in the first part. If you have not read the first part, it is preferable to read the first part and then follow along with us in the second and final part of I hope you enjoy this article. Question Six: Is it better from an SEO point of view to host a WordPress website on a new domain?

Or on an old domain?

In order to understand this question more easily, imagine that you are the administrator of the website of one of the major companies, and this company decided to build a new blog in the context of promoting its products or services, and decided to use WordPress to build the blog, and then asked you to specify the domain on which the blog will be hosted, so what will you choose: Will you choose to buy a new domain and link the blog to the new domain name? Or will your option be to place the blog on a partial domain within the company’s main domain (for example blog.mycompany.com)? The answer is definitely to use the old domain, as the age of the domain is one of the factors that are expected to be used by Google’s algorithms in archiving, despite conflicting opinions on this subject. Also, the new domain will need time to be archived by the crawler of each search engine, and it may require an SEO expert to improve the ranking of the new domain. Therefore, it is recommended to use a partial domain when building an SEO blog in the event of an old domain.

Seventh question: Does listing the same article in several categories on the WordPress website affect the site’s ranking in the search engine? One of the advantages offered by WordPress websites and blogs is the ability to list the same article under several categories, but will this affect the site’s ranking in search engines? This depends on how the template works. Some templates generate different links to the same article when it is included in more than one category. In this case, search engines will consider this to be duplicate content and therefore the site’s ranking will decline. As for templates that generate a single link to the article, even if it is listed under more than one category, the ranking will not be affected. Therefore, it is best to review the template you are using. If it generates more than one link when there are multiple categories, do not list your article under more than one category.

Question 8: Does using a lot of H1 tags in a WordPress template affect the site’s ranking in search engines? It is preferable not to use too many H1 tags in WordPress templates. Rather, it is preferable to use the H1 tag only once for the title of the article. Frequent use of this tag may make the search engine consider it an attempt to manipulate the tags to obtain a higher ranking. As a result, you may be exposed to a penalty from some search engines. Therefore, it is preferable to choose templates that use H1 tags as little as possible in order to ensure avoiding penalties and obtaining a good ranking in search engines. Question nine: Does the language used in WordPress affect the site’s ranking in search engines?

When choosing WordPress, it is preferable to use templates in a language that matches the language of your site visitors and the language of the content that you publish and promote. Using templates in languages ​​that contradict the language of your visitors may make your visitors leave the site as soon as they enter it, and this negatively affects the site’s ranking and causes it to receive a lower ranking. Therefore, avoid choosing a template only because it is beautifully designed, and focus on the topic of the template’s language if you are interested in improving your ranking in search engines. #SEO #Search Engines #WordPress