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Dale,<br />
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The tl;dr version is &quot;do nothing yet&quot; because you need to wait for Google to index your site and get the initial weighting done. &nbsp;Longer answer coming soon.
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Great response, Jason.<br />
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The piece I was missing was registering with:<br />
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<a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/" rel="ugc nofollow">https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/</a><br />
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What about registering with other search engines (BING, ...)<br />
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Dale
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What about registering with other search engines (BING, ...)
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You can if you want to. &nbsp;I get about 2-5% of my overall traffic from Bing and another 2-3% from engines like DuckDuckGo and similar. Given limited resources (time, effort) I haven't bothered with registering for those other sites. &nbsp;YMMV.
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Nice, simple site by the way. &nbsp;Like it.<br />
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If you ever want a more in-depth look at things, feel free to contact me through my profile and I'd be happy to talk to you.
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I just published my WordPress <a href="http://dev-soln.com" rel="ugc">website</a> on Tuesday.<br />
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I am using the Yoast SEO plug-in to help me get my site recognized by the search engines, but am really unsure of what I'm doing. Most of my pages have 'amber' ratings in the plug-in with some red, amber, and green comments. &nbsp;But I'm really unsure of how to convert the settings to change those ratings from red to amber or green.<br />
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Am I supposed to be pushing data to the various search engines, or is that done automatically?<br />
How do I know whether my pages are being indexed or not?<br />
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Thanks for your help<br />
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Dale
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I just published my WordPress website (http://dev-soln.com) on Tuesday.

I am using the Yoast SEO plug-in to help me get my site recognized by the search engines, but am really unsure of what I'm doing. Most of my pages have 'amber' ratings in the plug-in with some red, amber, and green comments.  But I'm really unsure of how to convert the settings to change those ratings from red to amber or green.

Am I supposed to be pushing data to the various search engines, or is that done automatically?
How do I know whether my pages are being indexed or not?

Thanks for your help

Dale

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