I’ve been going through a course on SEO to try to get more traffic to my site and one of the steps was to run my site through an audit on sitebulb.
According to sitebulb, my biggest issue on my site is " URL contains a form with a GET method". Even after reading the explanation about it, I don’t fully understand what it is or how to fix it.
Is this something related to the hivepress wordpress theme?
Forms with GET method are completely normal, e.g. these are used for the search forms in WordPress. Maybe this SEO tool provides some extra details on why this harms SEO?
This is what it says “URLs that contain a form element with the method set to GET, which creates submission URLs with the form data in the query string. This presents a potential vulnerability for a large number of URLs to be created and/or cached, which could cause issues with crawl efficiency or index bloat”
I recommend ignoring this notice, forms with GET methods are completely ok and always used for the search forms. For example, WordPress itself uses this method for its blog search form and HivePress uses it for the listing search.
Hmmm, then can you give some reasons why my site does not rank in organic google searches? I’ve been running it for over 6 months and consistently updating it with new jobs and original blog posts but it doesn’t show up in most google searches. Looking at my google search console data I’ve only had 165 total clicks in the last 3 months from organic google searches. That’s awful!
Hi,
Please check these tutorials:
I hope this is helpful to you.
Thank you for those posts, but do you have any SEO related info for job boards specifically?
Because I think there are some different things about job boards, namely that a huge number of job posts will come and go.
So google bots will spend a long time going through hundreds of pages crawling my site, but then the job post may expire or get removed, and now that URL is marked as a 404 by google because it has expired.
Specifically, looking a ahrefs.com, it says there are 1,455 crawled pages on my site. And 142 of those pages are 404s (so nearly 10% of the crawled pages are 404s). And these pages are all expired or removed job posts.
I think this must be part of the reason why my site isn’t ranking.
Any thoughts about this?
And do you have any case studies of websites using your jobpress theme getting lots of organic traffic from google?
Hi,
Unfortunately, we cannot give you more detailed information, you need to check the RankMath documentation. RankMath’s documentation they may have a faster reindexing feature. Or, as another workaround, you can exclude jobs from the index and create landing pages.
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