Hide post but allow it to be crawled and rank?

  • Resolved danniee

    (@danniee)


    6 years, 3 months ago

    Hi,

    I want to be able to rank posts without them appearing anywhere on the site (exclude from front page, archive and search). To do this I have installed a Category Exclude plugin so that that part is taken care of.

    My question is, will that post rank despite not being linked from anywhere? I did see it show up in the Yoast sitemap so I’m thinking it should be available to Google? Does the sitemap also add PAGES?

    I have seen other sites similar to mine rank posts/pages that are not listed or linked to anywhere on their page. The only way to find it is too googled it. This is what I wish to achieve too.

    Thank you!

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  • Plugin Support amboutwe

    (@amboutwe)

    Google Rankings (and the traffic it generates) depend on over 200 different factors. You can learn more about the 200 different factors that Google uses to determine ranking here: Algorithms. Other issues that determine rankings (and the traffic it creates) are the server load, page speed, cache configuration, mobile versions, responsiveness, the site’s content.

    In short, yes you can rank a post/page that is not internally linked or listed on your site as long as Google is aware of it. Typically by submitting a sitemap that includes the URL.

    Thread Starter danniee

    (@danniee)

    @amboutwe thank you for the response, it is very much appreciate. I have done some tests and seen that Google picks up the articles from the sitemaps and indeed ranks them. All is good ??

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