WordPress and Yoast SEO Tip – How To Fix Category and Tag Issues In Google Search Console
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Data Driven Daily Tip 316 - The data shows that WordPress is the number one most used content management system in the world, according to Wappalyzer. 🙂
Yoast SEO is a plug-in that has more than 5 million active installations. That means this video blog post is worth my time. 🙂
Many businesses will have this problem with WordPress, Yoast SEO and Google Search Console. It's a weird quirk in one of the latest releases of Yoast (Yoast has multiple release updates weekly - and we keep all of our webhosting clients on the most current version).
When you submit a sitemap via Yoast SEO, the Category and Tag URLs aren't indexing properly, and are causing a coverage error in Google Search Console. The fix, is super easy. Watch this. And you're welcome. 🙂
Paul Hickey, Founder / CEO / Lead Strategist at Data Driven Design, LLC and founder of The Voice Event, and The Voice Designer, has created and grown businesses via digital strategy and internet marketing for more than 15 years. His sweet spot is using analytics to design and build websites and grow the audience and revenue of businesses via SEO/Blogging, Google Adwords, Bing Ads, Facebook and Instagram Ads, Social Media Content Marketing, Email Marketing and most recently, Voice App Design and Development – Alexa Skills and Google Actions. The part that he’s most passionate about is quantifying next marketing actions based on real data.