A checklist for small WordPress sites to cut crawl waste from paginated lists, author archives and date archives, without breaking discovery of your posts. 1. Know the 2026 baseline Accept that rel=
You don't need an audit tool to clean up breadcrumbs and taxonomy archives on a small WordPress site. You need 40 minutes, Google Search Console, the Rich Results Test, and your SEO plugin's settings.
Rank Math or Yoast says FAQ schema is “on.” Rich Results Test still complains. The footer phone does not match JSON-LD. On small WordPress sites the fix is usually schema hygiene on money URLs, not an
Someone shares your post and Slack shows the theme screenshot. Google Images ignores your heroes because every alt is keyword salad. GSC is quiet; social CTR is not. On small WordPress sites the fix i
GSC shows duplicate titles, truncated blue links, or thin snippets — and the default advice is "install another SEO plugin." On small WordPress sites the fix is usually better labels on the money URLs
GSC Core Web Vitals is red (or PSI mobile is ugly) and the default advice is "install another optimizer." On small WordPress sites the fix is usually less front-end weight. This checklist covers LCP /
SSL is on. The padlock is still angry. On small WordPress sites that usually means HTTP leftovers, mixed content, or an insecure form — not a soft-404. This checklist is not a redirect-chain audit. Re
Indexation advice online jumps straight to sitemaps or "request indexing." On small WordPress sites, start with whether Google may fetch the HTML and whether you are still whispering noindex. This che
Internal linking advice online is either "add more links" or a full sitewide graph analysis. Small WordPress sites need a middle path: a checklist you can finish in about 40 minutes, fix the same day,