FAQ

What can I achieve with this SEO plugin?

WordPress SEO by 10Web is a user-friendly and powerful search engine optimization tool available for free. Its intuitive settings let you make your website SEO-friendly without any complexity.

The plugin helps you detect and resolve all crawl errors, fetching them from Google Search Console into your website.

SEO by 10Web plugin has been developed to assist WordPress beginners, developers, content writers, and SEO specialists.

Using SEO by 10Web, you have complete control over the search engine optimization and readability of your website. You can edit meta title and meta information of your website, as well as each post and page separately.

Where can I start setting up SEO options?

Once SEO by 10Web plugin is activated, navigate to SEO by 10Web > Overview page to start configuring initial settings of the plugin. This page let�s you authorize your Google account as well as add SEO Moz Account access ID and Secret Key.

Furthermore, in case there will be any search engine optimization issues on your website, SEO by 10Web plugin will show them under Problems column.

To have more comprehensive details about crawl errors or other SEO-related problems on your website, navigate to SEO by 10Web > Search Console page. These errors are retrieved from Google Search Console.

How do I authorize my Google account?

You can to add Google authorization code to your website through SEO by 10Web plugin the following way. Press Get Google Authorization Code button to do so. A new browser window will open, which will let you choose your Google account or sign in.

After choosing your Google account, you will see the following message:

*”10Web SEO wants to

Manage the list of sites and domains you control.
View and manage Search Console data for your verified sites.”*

Press Allow to access to authorization code. Copy it and paste it into the input in SEO by 10Web plugin. Afterwards press Authenticate button.

When your Google account is authorized you will see all crawl errors on this area. Otherwise, if everything is great, “No errors detected” message will appear.

How can I configure MOZ SEO settings?

In case you have a Moz account and would like to show its statistics, activate Mozscape API the following way. Sign in to your Moz account and get Access ID and Secret Key from there.

After copying these keys into Overview page of SEO by 10Web plugin, you will be able to display Moz SEO data here.

Where can I access Search Analytics in the plugin?

SEO by 10Web plugin provides a comprehensive statistics taken from Google Search Console. It shows data about all search queries, which users made before reaching to your website. You can check the following details using the plugin:

• Search Queries
• Clicks
• Impressions
• CTR
• Position

This information is available on Search Analytics page of WordPress SEO by 10Web plugin. This page consists of a table separated into 3 sections:

• Desktop
• Mobile
• Tablet

Each of them include analytics of search queries done on corresponding devices. You can filter the queries by searching among them. Also, this dashboard lets you select a location (countries) where the queries were made from.

Note: Search Analytics dashboard will become available after authenticating your Google Account from SEO by 10 Web > Overview page.

Where can I configure meta information for my website?

With SEO by 10Web plugin, you are able to manage and modify the meta information of your website. Navigate to SEO by 10Web > Meta Information page to configure these settings.

Start off by selecting a page, taxonomy or a post type from Pages menu. You can select one of the following kinds of posts, taxonomies or pages:

• Special Pages (e.g. Homepage, 404 Page)
• Post Types
• Taxonomies (e.g. categories, tags)
• Archives

Select the one you wish to modify and the meta settings will appear below.

How do I edit meta titles and meta descriptions?

Use Meta title / Meta description settings of SEO by 10Web > Meta Information page to set meta title and meta description for your taxonomy, page or post type. After clicking in these inputs, Insert Placeholder button will appear.

Press this button to use a dynamically generated data, for instance, post category description. It will be added to Meta title or Meta description the following way:

%%category_description%%

Is it possible to add meta keywords to my pages?

Use Keywords input of SEO by 10Web > Meta Information page to insert keywords for the selected page, post type or taxonomy. You can provide multiple keywords by separating them by a comma and a space character. Here is an example:

homepage, mywebsite, mykeyword

Where can I configure the indexation settings of my site?

Configure the indexation settings of your website with Meta robots option of SEO by 10Web > Meta Information page. You can select one of the following:

• Index: The page will be indexed by search engines.
• No index: if selected, content=”noindex” attribute will be added to the tag of your page, post type or taxonomy. This way, you can disallow search engines to show your website in search results.
• Follow: Mark this option to let search engines to crawl outgoing links.
• Nofollow: selecting this, the plugin will add content=”nofollow” to the tag of this page, post type or taxonomy. This way, search engines will not follow the outgoing links.

Also, Meta robots option lets you enable or disable the following settings:

• NO ODP: if enabled, the plugin adds content=”noodp” attribute to the tag.
• No Image Index: in case you do not want the search engines to index the images of your website, activate this option.
• No Archive: adds content=”noarchive” to tag, disallowing search engines to keep a cached copy of your page, post type or taxonomy.
• No Snippet: the attribute content=”nosnippet” is added to tag, disallowing search engines to show a description under your website listing as a search result.

How can I setup OpenGraph settings?

Use the following options of Facebook/OpenGraph and Twitter section to edit the information for OpenGraph and Twitter. As the Meta title and Meta description, click on the inputs to use Insert Placeholder button and use a dynamic data in titles or descriptions.

• OpenGraph title / Twitter title
• OpenGraph description / Twitter description
• OpenGraph images / Twitter images

With OpenGraph images and Twitter images options, you can select the images, which will be used when users share this page, post type or taxonomy on Facebook and Twitter.

Note, that you can just fill out the data for Facebook/OpenGraph settings and select Same as OpenGraph option under Twitter tab. The same settings will be used for Twitter sharing.

The preview of the search results listing, as well as the display of Facebook/Twitter sharing, will be provided under Preview column of Meta Information page.

Can I create a sitemap for my website with this plugin?

SEO by 10Web plugin lets you construct the sitemap for your website. Go to SEO by 10Web > Sitemap page to configure the following settings.

XML Sitemap

Generate XML Sitemap. Use this setting to enable or disable the creation of XML sitemap of your website.

Your Sitemap is located at. Provides the location path of the XML sitemap. You can edit it anytime. Here�s an example:

/home/site/web/domain.com/public_html/wp-content/uploads/wdseo_sitemaps/index-sitemap.xml

Sitemap Settings

Search Engines

Google Site Verification. Use this input box to add Google Site Verification code for your website. When you authorize your Google account, this code is being added automatically.

Bing Site Verification Code / Yandex Site Verification Code. Get the verification code for Bing and Yandex, then copy it to these input boxes.

Notify Search Engines When My Sitemap Updates. Activate this setting to send a notification to search engines, in case the sitemap of your website is updated.

Sitemap Info

Under this box, you will see information about the XML sitemap of your website. For instance, the following details may appear:

“Sitemap contains 139 items. It was last updated on 8th December 2017 at 3:46 pm.”

Manually Update / Delete Sitemap

Use Manually Update button to recreate the XML sitemap of your website. Also, you can remove it by pressing Delete Sitemap button.

Options

Include image items with the sitemap / Include stylesheet with the generated sitemap. Use these settings to allow or disallow SEO by 10Web plugin to include images and stylesheets in the XML sitemap.

Max entries per sitemap. This option specifies the maximum number of entries per sitemap page. Lower its value to prevent issues regarding the memory limit of your site.

Autoupdate sitemap. Switch on this option to auto-update the XML sitemap after posts or pages are edited.

Is it possible to exclude pages from sitemap?

Excludes section of SEO by 10Web > Sitemap page lets you do this. You need to configure the following options:

Exclude Post Types / Exclude Taxonomies. This setting allows you to exclude specific post types or taxonomies from being included to the XML sitemap of your website. Click on the inputs to choose options from the corresponding drop-down menu.

Exclude Posts. With this option, you can specify the IDs of posts, which should not be included in the XML sitemap of your website.

Where do I configure main settings of the SEO plugin?

Configure general options of SEO by 10Web plugin using its Settings dashboard. Navigate to SEO by 10Web > Settings page to personalize the options.

User permissions

With Show SEO metabox to role drop-down menu, you can choose the minimum user role, which will be able to see SEO by 10Web Metabox under pages or posts content.

Defaults

Select Default Redirection type, choosing from Permanent (301) and Temporary (302) options. Also, you can enable or disable Meta information optimization option from here.