Plugins and SEO
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I'd like some expert guidance. I've searched for a theme that does what I want and finally found something I like, but I'm wondering what you all think I should do to increase it's searchability.
The plugin has all the listings and styling. All I need to do is past the code into the wordpress site ad voila! I have a page. Using the widget lets me allow upvotes and provide map etc. But it means the content is inside the widget instead of on the page.
What would you modify if you wanted to keep the theme & widget to get the best results.
http://best-of-sacramento.com/dentists
This is my staging site.
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Awesome!
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Thank you both. The site is coming along very nicely, if I do say so myself.
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Hi Julie
So in terms of pure accessibility from a technical standpoint, I think you're good. The content from inside the plugin appears to be showing in the HTML of source code, so this means it's perfectly accessible to Google. And to Google, it's part of the page just like other content (even though to you, on the backend, it comes from a widget).
What Roman is referring to, which is a good idea, may be this Top Places schema - https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/top-places-list - which is in Beta, so you have to click "express interest" to see if you can be accepted to try it.
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Well I will suggest adding all the schemas to the page in order to let it know to Google, that's a listing page
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