{"id":5729,"date":"2022-07-15T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/proranktracker.com\/blog\/?p=5729"},"modified":"2024-11-04T18:46:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T18:46:22","slug":"wordpress-secrets-you-must-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proranktracker.com\/blog\/wordpress-secrets-you-must-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Unpublished Posts And More – 6 WordPress Secrets You Must Know"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve written a few blog posts that you’re not quite ready to publish yet. Maybe they’re not finished, or maybe you’re waiting for the right time to share them. But does having unpublished posts on your site affect your SEO?<\/span><\/p>\n

In this post, we\u2019ll be tackling the effect of unpublished content on your website\u2019s SEO, as well as other WordPress secrets that people aren\u2019t telling you about.<\/span><\/p>\n

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6 WordPress Secrets You Should Know<\/h2>\n

Here are other WordPress secrets you might not know about that can help boost your website\u2019s SEO:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

1. Setting unpublished posts to \u2018private\u2019<\/b><\/h3>\n

So, the question remains: Do draft WordPress posts\/unpublished affect your SEO?<\/span><\/p>\n

The short answer is not necessarily. Unpublished posts should not affect your SEO. However, if those posts are visible to search engines (that is, they are not set as “private” or “noindex”), they could potentially be discovered and indexed by Google \u2013 which could then impact your SEO.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If you have any content on your site that you don’t want search engines to index, be sure to set it as “private” or use the “noindex” tag. This will ensure that your unpublished content doesn’t have any negative impact on your site’s SEO.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So, as long as you set the unpublished posts to private, it\u2019s all good, right? When it comes to indexing pages, you\u2019re safe. But how about speed? You know too well that when it comes to SEO, site speed is also increasingly important.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you have a lot of posts in your draft folder, it can slow down your site’s loading time. This is because each time a page is loaded, WordPress has to query the database for all of the draft posts. So if you have 50 drafts, that’s 50 extra queries that need to be made.<\/span><\/p>\n

Similarly, if you have a lot of published but unindexed posts, this can also slow down your site. This is because WordPress still has to query the database for these posts even though they’re not being displayed on your site.<\/span><\/p>\n

To avoid having unpublished posts affect your SEO, it’s best to either publish them or delete them. If you do have a lot of drafts, consider batch publishing them instead of publishing them one at a time. This way, you can avoid having too many queries being made to the database all at once.<\/span><\/p>\n

While the impact of saved drafts is relatively small, you should consider cleaning things up to speed up your website.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

2. Utilize the Google Search Console<\/b><\/h3>\n

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Fig. 1. Utilize the Google Search Console to improve website SEO<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

(Source: <\/span><\/i>Freepik<\/span><\/i><\/a>)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

If you’re running a WordPress website, <\/span>Google Search Console<\/span><\/a> can be an incredibly useful tool to help improve your site’s SEO. Here’s how:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n