I have created a node.js API and use React to get data from the API and display it on the frontend. I however need to start doing some simple SEO work like titles and meta descriptions etc. but not sure how to do this.

I installed React Helmet and in Google console if I look at the elements I can see the title and description there but I don't think that is enough to show up for search engines?

          <Helmet>
            <title>My page title</title>
            <meta name="description" content="Helmet application" />
          </Helmet>

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Hey there, based on what I have on my plate and the fact that I was doing this client a favor they have a pretty much a non-existent budget, I did a wix site for them as they move away from their franchisor and go independent.  

It is a local cafe, before with the franchisor enter the business name or mention products and the town, or adjoining towns, they would always come up first on page one.  

The website was published on Wix about a week ago.  Is it that wix is a disaster when it comes to SEO or Google takes forever to index or I need to change what/how I did it for searching key words, or make longer phrases on hidden pages - anyone with any advice would be hugely appreciated.  

Compared to the old site, people are saying it looks really nice -BUT it needs to come up in search.  Just don't have time and they don't have a budget to pay webdevs.  

Thoughts/ideas?
Just not really my area and trying to help them out amap!

Is there a way to have google (and other search engines), reindex etc, after changes? Tools to measure where it ranks or if changes improved results etc?

Thanks!!!!

We need to search (Windows search) in file content (.html saved files) to find ie: names of the people in forms etc. and we need to search on network shares or mapped files. Though the shares are indexed on the server, on workstations we cannot find any file with the desirable content. I read once that the solution is to set the mapped folder to be available offline but we can't use it in our environment. Are there any other way to get searching in the file content on mapped drive or in the shared folders? I tried Agent Ransack and it's working without any problems - doesn't matter if it's local or network drive(share) but we want to use windows search instead of any other third-party software.

In my .htaccess file, there are references to favicon. I want to delete my graphics folder. Is it of to move any favicon files to the root of my site, not inside a folder?

#do things different on prod
<IfDefine prod>
RewriteRule ^favicon\.ico$ /graphics/live_favicon.ico [L]
</IfDefine>
<IfDefine !prod>
RewriteRule ^favicon\.ico$ /graphics/test_favicon.ico [L]
</IfDefine>

and where is "prod" defined? Is that an Apache thing? Sorry for the newbness, Im taking over for a departed employee and trying to sort things out.

Can someone check this please ... Is this the correct coding for robots.txt if I put a sitemap.xml file in the web root folder:
     User-agent: *
     https://EXAMPLE.COM/sitemap.xml
and
Is this the correct coding for .htaccess if I want to direct all requests to the Non-www https version of a URL:
     RewriteEngine On
     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.EXAMPLE\.com [NC]
     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://EXAMPLE.com/$1 [L,R=301]
     RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://EXAMPLE.com/$1 [L,R=301]
Any advice appreciated!

Need Key Word search tools

I need free tools which let me search for words that are used very often. This is for SEO, since I want a high hit rate.

What can you suggest? And what other advice can you offer on SEO? I am starting with my YouTube channel...and will use these key words in the meta-data.

Thanks

Search engines have changed the display of a domain name in search results by adding random capitalization.  

For example, what once was listed as

aircraft.com

now many, but not all, listings have been changed to

AirCraft.com

with the "A" and the "C" capitalized in search results. (Just an example.  Not actual site)

So, a page that might have shown in search results as:


now shows


No changes have been made to the <title> or <description> tags in the pages.  Site has been online for a long time.  Only recent changes was to upgrade some coding, add wider https.  But, nothing substantive.

Interestingly, it is always shows this after the dash.  So that the pages' <title> correctly display, but the site url appended to the title with a dash now shows this modified capitalization.

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I am working with pagespeed and gtmetrix and they both say I need to defer this script - https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.12.4/jquery.min.js 

As you can see in the plugin async javascript I have this listed to defer

https://gyazo.com/6d3ba7273cb4256ebb7a3eed49d9cb6d

However, looking at the source at https://www.theherbsplace.com/product/artemisia_combination_p_163/?loggedout=true you can see that the script isn't being deferred.  

Here is the gtmetrix readout - https://gyazo.com/533542c729b4e15b20cc0f5ca9799bb1

How do I get this script to defer?  Is there another method that is better?

Thanks,

Recently we have updated the website after that google search shows the wrong URL for the website.

example: https://ss.com/eu (google search shows this URL in search but after the upgrade, we have removed the page /eu , now it show only https://ss.com. How to fix this google search result or can I redirect the URL to https://ss.com/eu. which is the best solution? why google search result shows the old URL?

I'm doing some SEO work on my own Wordpress website to improve my chances of it popping up in search results and recently posted a question here where I got some very useful tips and information.

Per the information I've been given, I'm currently looking at Categories vs Tags as suggested by an expert in my other question.

I suggest you change this in WP to use /tag/page or /category/page https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories-vs-tags/ 

My problem is that I don't fully understand the help article that I've been pointed to.

Can anyone explain the differences between the two to me in layman's terms, as well as perhaps include a screenshot or two of what I'm supposed to be changing and where, in Wordpress?

My wordpress skills are fairly basic so please don't assume too much knowledge - what I'm after is specific directions as to what to change and in what areas of Wordpress I'm supposed to be making those changes.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Regards, Andrew

Hi Experts,

I'm after recommendations for someone or a company that can go through my Wordpress created website for Google Seach Engine Optimization and do the optimization for me at a reasonable price. I know very little about SEO apart from the purpose and importance of it. How to implement it on my site though, is beyond my own technical skills and experience.

I know that "reasonable price" is a subjective term and can't give a price that I'm willing to spend at this stage, except to say that I'd like to spend as little as possible :)

I'm open to all offers from both Experts Exchange members who have personal experience with doing this sort of thing, as well as recommendations from members who have personally used the services any companies they recommend I contact.

Thanks in advance for any offers and/or suggestions.

Regards, Andrew

I have searched the Internet for days now trying to determine what happens when an affiliate link is 301 Redirected via cPanel.  The main question is that I want to know how the Google Indexing of the Domain and link will show if it is an Amazon affiliate link. Can someone help me to understand this process? I have gone to forums and did days worth of Google Search.

When looking up this site on google with site:www.thekathycollection.com (example)

It looks like google is confused on the listing and only lists the main URL of the site and no other pages seem to be indexed. It also lists other webites that have the phrase The Kathy Collection on them.

Does this mean that i have to re brand the site so it is something specifically unique like www.thekathysmithcollection.com?

Or can i just purchase that domain and add it as a secondary domain to the site - Will google then use this new domain to index it separately and potentially clear up the confusion in google search results to only include pages that are from that domain when performing site:www.thekathysmithcollection.com on google?

Any other guidance is greatly appreciated!!!

Thanks in advanced!