Wordpress initial setup
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Hello
I am going to create a new WP site.
Basically, I would like to have your suggestions for the initial setup (checklist) in terms of SEO.
For example: xml sitemap, robots.txt, .htaccess, permalinks, www or no www, etc
Basically, I would like to start in the right way
Any advise would be appreciate.
Thank you so much
Andy
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I would agree with Marcus on this one. The first thing that you would want to do is plan ahead think about your niche and think about who you are advertising too.
I would definitely suggest creating a wire frame of what your website will look like, what pages will social media links(if any) will be on your website.
The most important thing you can do is plan accordingly and create a wire frame then a sitemap, and go from there.
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Hey Andy
Right, the first step is some good honest planning and think about the content you will have on your site. You want to organise the content and decide upon the keywords as you would for any other project and build the structure of your site around that. You may find that tags or categories work better but that is the basics.
Then, you want to install the Yoast Wordpress SEO plugin. This will do most of what you need out the box but you can then decide which taxonomies (types of categories) that you need or more importantly don't need. If this is a single user blog, then you will not need the author pages indexed and likewise, you may not want to index date based archives as they are again just duplicates of the homepage on a single user blog.
I would love to give a more detailed and generic answer but as ever, it really depends on the content but the Yoast tool is a great start. Combine that with the campaign manager here to identify duplication and other issues as you go then you can tweak and refine as you go.
Hope that helps
Marcus
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