Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is a fantastic tool for attracting both new and current visitors to your blog.
Podia allows you to set up SEO settings for individual blog posts with just a couple of steps!
Setting up SEO settings for blog posts
Here's how to customize your blog posts' SEO settings:
From your Podia dashboard, click on Blog in the sidebar menu.
Click on Edit next to the blog post you'd like to modify SEO settings for.
On the blog post edit page, look out for the right-hand menu and click on the SEO tab.
Once you're done editing your blog post SEO details, click on Publish (if you're publishing your post for the first time) or Update (if you're editing an existing post).
Here are all of the SEO options available for blog posts:
SEO title - This is used as the title of your post when sharing it around the web. If you keep this field empty, we'll use your post title.
SEO description - This is used to describe your post when sharing it around the web. If you keep this field empty, we'll use your post excerpt.
Social image - This is used when sharing your post around the web. If you don't upload a social image, we'll use your post's featured image.
Show in search results - Choose if you want to show or hide this blog post from being indexed by search engines.
FAQ
Can I add an alt text to images of my blog posts?
Can I add an alt text to images of my blog posts?
Yes!
You can easily add alt text to images added to your blog posts by using your rich-text editor.
How long does it take for SEO changes to take effect?
How long does it take for SEO changes to take effect?
We cannot predict how long it will take for changes to take effect and be crawled by search engines after changes are made.
If you notice changes are taking longer than usual, it might be a great idea to connect your site to Google's Search Console and ask it to re-crawl your pages.
I have changed my post social media images, and I'm not seeing it reflected on social media channels... HELP!
I have changed my post social media images, and I'm not seeing it reflected on social media channels... HELP!
Chances are your old social media images might still be cached on these platforms.
You can use debugging tools offered by these platforms to force them to pull the most up to date images from your site.
Here are some debugging tools from some popular social media platforms:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/post-inspector/
How long does SEO take to work?
How long does SEO take to work?
There's no way to predict how long a site would take to rank in search engines or assume a specific position.
Usually, you can expect to see results in 4-12 months, but this can vary based on the keywords you are targeting, how competitive they are, how optimized your site and pages are, and how many internal/external links you have on your page.
Regardless of how long a site has been live or active on any platform does not indicate how high it will appear in search results, how much organic traffic it will receive, or anything of that nature.
SEO requires tweaking and adjusting to see these types of results over time. SEO is a science and many of the top results have a team of SEO experts constantly tweaking and working on their sites.
Can you guarantee my blog posts will rank on Google?
Can you guarantee my blog posts will rank on Google?
No one has control over when Google indexes a page or updates its index.
If you have a custom domain connected to your Podia account you can add it to Google Search Console and request Google to crawl/re-index your site.
This should help speed up the process and get your site ranking in Google faster.
Still need help?
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