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How to Add Your WordPress Site in Yandex Webmaster Tools

July 21, 2022 By Arsalan Rauf Leave a Comment

How to Add Your WordPress Site in Yandex Webmaster Tools

Do you want to add your website to Yandex webmaster tools?

Do you want to connect your site to Yandex webmaster tools?

If yes, this post is for you.

Webmaster tools including Google search console and Bing webmaster help you to optimize your website, manage robots.txt, check site errors, monitor the traffic and so on. In this post, I shall show you how to add your WordPress site in Yandex webmaster tools to monitor your search engine traffic.

What is Yandex?

Yandex is another popular search engine like Google and Bing. It is based in Russia.

You can optimize your website for SEO in Yandex to get more visitors from Russia.

what is yandex

Yandex has a variety of tools like image search, generalized search engine, email, maps, videos and so on. It also has webmaster tools that help you to monitor traffic stats, rank your website, search queries, keywords etc.

You can connect your WordPress website with Yandex by using Yoast SEO plugin. It is similar to Bing webmaster tools and Google search console.

Adding WordPress Site in Yandex Webmaster Tools

Before I start, you will need a Yandex webmaster tools account to get started or connect your website. After creating your account, login to your WordPress site to configure Yandex webmaster tools using Yoast SEO plugin.

Now let’s have a look at how can you add your website in Yandex webmaster tools and start optimizing it.

Step 1: Create an Account at Yandex

First of all, you need to login to your Yandex webmaster tools account. If you do not have an existing Yandex account, then you can create one using this link.

Create an Account at Yandex

After creating the account, you will see the Yandex webmaster page.

On this page, you will have to click on the (+) button in the top bar to add your site in Yandex.

add your site in Yandex

In the address field of website, you will add the full domain name of your website and click on the Add button.

 

add your domain name

Note: If you have ‘www’ in your domain URL, then you have to add it before the domain name like (www.greenhatexpert.com)

On the next page, you will be asked to verify website ownership by adding meta content in your WordPress website. Now copy the content code from this page because you will need it in the second step.

copy the content code

Step 2: Login to WordPress Admin Area and Add the Code

Now login to your WordPress admin area and put the verification code in the Yoast SEO webmaster settings.

Simply go to SEO>General area and click on the Webmaster tools tab.

general seo webmaster

Now paste the code in the Yandex verification code field and click on the save changes button to save changes.

paste code save

After adding the code in your website, you need to revisit the Yandex webmaster tools page where you copied the code and now click the Check button to verify the ownership.

check button rights

After successful verification, it will display your username which you can use to manage your website in Yandex webmaster tools. In addition, you can also delegate the rights to other users by adding their username and clicking on the Delegate rights button.

username rights

now you have verified and added your website in Yandex webmaster tools. You can see search errors, traffic stats, search queries, internal and external links, robots.txt analysis, site information, audit pages for mobile on the Yandex dashboard. Use the menu on the left side of the screen to get any information that you need.

yandex dashboard

Yandex webmaster tools also offer options for website optimization which are filtered from troubleshooting to important settings like .htaccess and robots.txt.

I hope that this post helped you to learn how to add your WordPress site in Yandex webmaster tools.

You may also want to read our post on Mobile SEO.

Do not forget to share this post.

Arsalan Rauf
Arsalan Rauf

Arsalan Rauf is an entrepreneur, freelancer, creative writer, and also a fountainhead of Green Hat Expert. Additionally, he is also an eminent researcher of Blogging, SEO, Internet Marketing, Social Media, premium accounts tips and tricks, etc.

www.greenhatexpert.com

Filed Under: Blogging, SEO, WordPress Tagged With: add site to yandex, baidu webmaster tools, google webmaster tools, yandex cy, yandex meta tag, yandex site check, yandex verification meta tag, yandex webmaster blog

7 Best WordPress CDN Services in 2022 (Compared)

June 29, 2022 By Arsalan Rauf

Are you looking for the best WordPress CDN service for your website?

If yes, this guide is for you.

A CDN service can speed up your site speed by serving cached static content from servers which are located near your user’s country or geographical location. In this post, I am going to show you the best WordPress CDN services and how CDN is helpful to increase the speed of your website.

What is a CDN?

CDN is also known as Content Delivery Network is a network of servers that deliver cached content from sites based on the geographical location of the users. For more information, you need to see our post about Why you need a CDN for your WordPress blog?

what is a cdn

You need to understand that CDN is not a WordPress hosting. So you will need a WordPress hosting service in order to start your website.

How CDN speeds up WordPress?

Usually, your shared or WordPress hosting company serves you from a single geographical location. All the users of your website access the same server.

If your website gets huge traffic, then the user requests will slow your site. During the peak hours of traffic, it can also crash the server which can make your site temporarily unavailable.

Strangeloop discovered after conducting a study, a single second delay in site speed can cause 11% less page views and 7% less conversions.

oneseconddelay

This is where CDN works well. CDN caches static resources of your server like javascript, stylesheets and images.

When a user requests your website, static resources are served by CDN servers. End of the day, it reduces the load on your hosting server and loads the site faster.

Static content is served using a network of servers. The geographical location of these servers is different around the globe. Every user request is served by the closest server to the location of user. It reduces the page load speed and also makes your website faster for users of all locations.

After this discussion, let’s have a look at some of the top WordPress CDN services.

1. MaxCDN

maxcdn

MaxCDN is the best WordPress CDN in the market. The servers of this company have fast SSD drives and spread across data centers around the world.

It is an easy task to install and setup MaxCDN in WordPress. It works efficiently with famous WordPress caching plugins like WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache.

The control panel of CDN is beginner friendly so you can manage it with ease. It enables you to view reports, purge cache and setup locations etc. MaxCDN also allows the users to add SSL certificate or use a shared SSL certificate to ensure that your cached content is served using HTTPS/SSL.

I believe that it is the most reliable, fast, and beginner friendly WordPress CDN service.

Grade: A+

Pricing: Starting from $9/month

2. Sucuri

sucuri

Sucuri is a famous website of a security company. They offer a powerful CDN and WordPress firewall that protects your site against malware, DDOS attacks and other WordPress security threats.

Their website application firewall scans all user requests to your site before it reaches your hosting server. This blocks several malware, spam and DDOS attacks.

On the top, their anycast network is spread throughout the world so your users are never far away from the fastest servers. Their firewall has double benefits including security and speed.

Sucuri works with all the famous CDNs available in this list. I recommend MaxCDN on WordPress site. It reduces server load tremendously, and Sucuri’s firewall blocks all bad requests before requesting cached content from MaxCDN.

Grade: A

Pricing Starting from 9.99$/month for a single website.

3. Cloudflare

cloudflare

Cloudflare is also famous for their free CDN that they offer for small sites. However, keep in mind that their free plan has limited DDOS protection and does not support all the features which are available in paid plans.

It is an easy task to setup Cloudflare CDN in WordPress. Cloudflare has a large network of globally distributed servers and it can cache static content automatically.

Cloudflare offers an easy to use control panel to monitor performance and clean up cache.

They also have ‘I am under attack Mode’ feature. It shows users a security page for a few seconds while analyzing the traffic and sending them to your site.

Grade: A

Pricing: Paid plans starting from $20 per month.

4. StackPath

stackpath

StackPath gives a solid CDN that is built on top growing platform. They have a larger network of servers which is spread throughout the world in many countries.

Their CDN is secure and it protects your site from DDOS attacks with load balancing and blocking features. All plans include site firewall that further reduces server load on your website and boosts the load time of page.

It is easy to setup for website owners because it has developer friendly set of tools and APIs. It enables developers to integrate their websites or apps into the StackPath API and take advantage of its powerful interface.

Grade: B+

Pricing: Starting from $20 per month.

5. KeyCDN

keycdn

KeyCDN is another good option for a WordPress CDN service. It offers a powerful network of servers available in Europe, Asia, North America and pacific regions.

It is easy to setup on different platforms such as WordPress. Plans also include free and custom SSL, HTTP/2 support, DDOS mitigation, restful API support, SSD servers and powerful control panel.

KeyCDN gives pay as you go plans, it means that you pay for what you use instead of fixed amount on monthly basis. It could reduce pricing for smaller websites but unexpected growth in traffic may also increase the cost.

Grade: B

Pricing: Pay as you go starting from $0.04 per GB. Minimum $40 per year.

6. Rackspace

rackspace

Rackspace is a famous name in hosting, cloud computing and enterprise level cloud solutions. It also offers a CDN solution built on top of the powerful cloud infrastructure.

Setup is a little more complicated as compared to some other CDN services. Rackspace offers several other cloud solutions as well that makes it a bit complicated for users to find their way.

It does not offer any DDOS mitigation at all. For DDOS protection, you will need to use Sucuri or Cloudflare.

Grade: C

Pricing Pay as you starting from $0.16 per GB.

7. Incapsula

incapsula

Incapsula is another famous WordPress CDN solution. It has located servers around the world including a data center in South America. It is easy to setup and works well in WordPress caching and with other plugins.

Incapsula offers SSL, 24/7 support, website application firewall and DDOS mitigation as part of their paid CDN plans. It also offers free CDN plan which does not have these features.

Grade: C

Pricing: Paid plans starting from $59 per month.

Conclusion

After carefully going through all these top WordPress CDN services, one cannot deny that MaxCDN is the best WordPress CDN in the market. They offer the most comprehensive set of features at a reasonable price and the setup is also beginner friendly.

I will also suggest Sucuri because it gives access to their cloud proxy and website firewall. You can also use it with other CDNs to boost the performance of your website.

If your budget is tight, free CDN of Cloudflare will do the job for you.

I hope that you liked the post and it will help you to find the best WordPress CDN solution for your site.

Arsalan Rauf
Arsalan Rauf

Arsalan Rauf is an entrepreneur, freelancer, creative writer, and also a fountainhead of Green Hat Expert. Additionally, he is also an eminent researcher of Blogging, SEO, Internet Marketing, Social Media, premium accounts tips and tricks, etc.

www.greenhatexpert.com

Filed Under: Blogging, Guide, SEO, WordPress Tagged With: best cdn wordpress, best free cdn for wordpress, cdn providers, cloudflare cdn, image cdn for wordpress, max cdn, maxcdn wordpress, wordpress cdn plugin

How to Increase Pageviews and Reduce Bounce Rate in WordPress

June 25, 2022 By Arsalan Rauf

Do you want to increase pageviews and reduce bounce rate?

If yes, this post is for you.

How to Increase Pageviews and Reduce Bounce Rate in WordPress

Most bloggers think that it is a hard task to get people to their website or blog. Most expert bloggers or SEO experts believe that getting people to their blog is an easy task. To let the user stay on your site is a hard task. Most users visit your site and leave it without going through the second page. When the user does not visit the second page, it increases the bounce rate. In addition, it also decreases the pageviews per visit.

In general, it affects your ad revenue and decreases it. In this post, I shall tell you some tips and tricks to increase pageviews and reduce bounce rate in WordPress.

Before we start

Let’s start with basics to consider technology and terminology. Bounce rate stands for the percentage of visitors who enter your website and bounce (leave the site) rather than visiting other pages of the site. Page view represents the load of a single page on an internet site. I use Google Analytics to track my data. You can use other analytics services or you can also install Google Analytics on your WordPress website.

Now I have discussed the basic terminology and you are thinking that why do these numbers matter?

If you have a website which is primarily monetized by banner ads, then the number of pageviews do matter.

If you want to get a loyal users or audience, then the number of bounce rate also matter.  In addition, the lower your bounce rate, the better ads CPC(cost per click) or eCPM(cost per thousand) you will get. When the same user visits the next page, your ad provider will show a better ad to serve him and it will give you a higher CPC or eCPM. I have done a lot of experiments on my own websites so the methods I shall share with you are the ones that I used in the past and know that they will work.

P.S. These techniques will ONLY work if you have Good Content.

Interlink Your Posts

When you will interlink your other posts within the new post content, it will increase in pageviews. In WordPress 3.1 version, it has become an easy task to interlink. Simple you need to search for the post which you want to link while adding links. Interlinking techniques work great when your website is full of great articles. If you are a beginner, you will be a bit limited in this regard.

So how do you go back and interlink older posts when you will have something new?

You need to do it manually but it is time taking task.

There are plugins that let you automatically link keywords in WordPress.

Additionally, interlinking not only helps to increase pageviews but also reduces bounce rates. It is also helpful in SEO as well.

Show Related Posts After the Post

Why does user leave your blog?

The user leaves your blog after reading the post because you are not showing them what to do next. You should show the user a list of ‘related posts’ or ‘other popular posts’. It may lead them to see another post in your website. There are a number of ways to add or show related posts in your website. If you want to use a plugin to show related post. You may like our post on best related posts plugin for WordPress.

Show Excerpts on Front / Archive Pages

If you show excerpts on front/archive pages, it has two advantages. First of all, it will decrease the page load time. Secondly, it will increase the pageviews. You should not show full posts on your front page or archive page. Imagine if you have 25 images in one post, then have 5 of those on one page. It will give a terrible user experience because of super long page and slow load time.

It will make the user to leave your website. Most of good themes including Genesis, Headway and Thesis already have this as built-in option.

Splitting up Long Posts

Are you writing super long posts?

You can split it into multiple pages by using WordPress <nextpage> tag in your post. Just add it wherever you want to add it, then it will split your post into multiple pages. You may see some websites which split their posts into two pages or even into five pages.

But you need to be careful in this method as well. It is because if you do not have a sufficient amount of content on each page, then the user may get pissed of. There are several famous websites which are using this technique including Forbes, Wall Street Journal and NY Times etc.

Interactive Sidebar

Your sidebar plays an important role in reducing bounce rate and increasing pageviews. You can display your popular posts in the sidebar. You can also customize it to show popular posts by week, month and all time. The blogger can also show the most recent posts only on single post pages.

I have seen different websites that create custom images to navigate to their specific posts. You can integrate other sections of your website in your sidebar.

Encourage Random Browsing

You should encourage the user for random browsing. Make him curious to click on the buttons available on your website.

Results

An average user spends only one page per visit on your website and leaves it. When I started to see the basic data, my website bounce rate was in 70% range. After observing that, I have started implementing the above changes on my site.

Bounce rate decreased from the average of 70% to 45%. Pageviews per visit increased to 2.79/pages per visit. An average time spent on the page went to the average of 2 minutes and 40 seconds.

What is your strategy to increase pageviews and reduce bounce rate? Am I missing something?

Share with us in the comment section.

Do not forget to share this post.

Arsalan Rauf
Arsalan Rauf

Arsalan Rauf is an entrepreneur, freelancer, creative writer, and also a fountainhead of Green Hat Expert. Additionally, he is also an eminent researcher of Blogging, SEO, Internet Marketing, Social Media, premium accounts tips and tricks, etc.

www.greenhatexpert.com

Filed Under: Blogging, Guide, SEO, WordPress Tagged With: bounce plugin, how to check bounce rate in wordpress, how to increase page views in wordpress, how to increase page views per visit, increase page views bot, reduce bounce rate plugin, seyiny's bounce plugin, wordpress plugins to decrease bounce rate

How to Optimize for Google’s Featured Snippets to Build More Traffic

June 25, 2022 By Arsalan Rauf

Have you noticed that it has become a hard nut to crack to build referral traffic from Google?

It is because the competition has become tougher than before.

Google search results or Google search engine is not generating as much traffic as it used to generate in the past.

How do you adapt?

This post will teach you how to optimize your content to one of the most recent changes of Google that is, featured snippets.

What are featured snippets?

Featured snippets are selected results by the Google bot for the top of Google’s organic results below the ads in a box.

The objective of featured snippets is to answer the question of the user. They are also known as ‘answer boxes’. Being featured means getting additional brand exposure in Google search results.

There are two studies confirming the claim:

  • Ben Goodsell reports that CTR or click through rate on a featured page increased from 2 to 8 % once it is placed in an answer box, with revenue from organic traffic increasing by 677%.
  • Eric Enge highlights an increase of 20-30% in traffic for Confluentforms.com when they held the position of featured snipped for the query.

Types of featured snippets

There are three major types of featured snippets:

  • Paragraph (an answer is given in text). It can be a box contains text inside or a box with both image and text inside.
  • Table (an answer is given in a table)
  • List (an answer is available in a form of a list)

Here is an example of paragraph snippet with an image:

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According to Getstat, the most popular featured snippet is “paragraph” type:

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Featured snippets or answer boxes?

Since we are dealing with a pretty new thing, so the terminology is pretty loose for this one.

Many people refer featured snippets as answer boxes and it is because there is an answer available in a box.

So there is nothing wrong with the terminology. It creates a confusion in Google because it shows a quick answer, an estimate or a definition etc on the top without linking to the source:

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Let’s stick to the term ‘featured snippet’ in order to avoid the confusion. When there is a URL featured in a box because it gives an extra exposure to the linked site. It is an important thing for content publishers.

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Do I have a chance to get featured?

According to research by Ahrefs, 99.58% of featured pages already rank in top 10 of Google. So if you are already rank high for related search queries, you have good chance to get your featured snippet.

On the other hand, Getstat also claims that 70% of the snippets are from outside of the first position in Google. Therefore, it is necessary to be ranked in top 10. In order to get featured, you do not have to be at #1.

There is no doubt in saying that the most featured site is Wikipedia.org. If Wikipedia is already featured for the search query, it will be extremely hard for you to beat it. It does not mean that you lose heart and you should not try.

According to the analysis performed in a study, there are some types of search queries get featured snippet results most often:

  • DIY processes
  • Health
  • Financial
  • Mathematical
  • Requirements
  • Status
  • Transitional

Ahref’s study expands the list of popular topics using their most frequently words which appear in featured snippets:

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The following types of search queries usually do not have answer boxes:

  • Images and videos
  • Local
  • Shopping

To sum up the above discussion:

  • You need to be in the top 10 ranking to get featured. So the big part of being featured is to improve your overall rankings in Google. It includes long-tail informational queries and they are your lower-hanging fruit.
  • If your niche is health, DIY or finance, you have the highest chance of getting featured.

Identify all kinds of opportunities to be featured

Start with good old keyword research

According to the multiple studies, the majority of featured snippets are from long tail keywords. The more words you type in the Google search box, the higher the chances there will be a snippet.

It is a good idea to begin with researching your keywords.

When performing keyword research with featured snippets in mind, note that:

  • You need to start with question type search queries. It should contain words such as why, what, and how etc. It is because they are easiest to identify.
  • Target informational things not only focus on questions. The aim of featured snippets is to answer the question of the user immediately. Question type queries are not only the reason that builds featured results. According to Ahref’s study, most of the long tail queries with no questions trigger featured snippets in search engine.

It helps if you use a keyword research tool that shows you whether the query makes the featured results or not. Serpstat is one of the best keyword research tools and it combines the keyword research with featured snippet research let’s take an example of keywords that trigger answer boxes:

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Use Serpstat to filter the best performing keywords or queries of your competitors by the presence of answer boxes:

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This will help you in future for competition too, it will allow you to see the weaknesses and strengths of competitors.

Browse Google for more questions

If you want to further explore the topic, you need to go through Google’s ‘People also ask’ sections whenever you observe one in search results. It gives a huge insight into the questions that Google relates to the topic.

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Once you start expanding the questions in Google to see the answer, it will add more and more questions to the bottom of the box:

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Identify search queries where you already rank high

First of all, you need to identify the phrases for which you are already ranked highly. It will be the easiest way to get featured snippet after you optimize for answer boxes.

Google Search Console also shows that which search queries are sending you traffic. To get that report you need to click ‘search traffic’ and then ‘search analytics’.

Then check the boxes that will show the position of your pages in Google. You can also see the top performing queries too:

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Use the filters to find some question type queries among those:

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Go beyond traditional keyword research tools: Ask people

All the above methods are already used for discoveries. Your competitors are also ranking high for those opportunities. What if you go beyond that? Ask your audience, followers, customers how they search and what or which questions they ask.

MyBlogU: Ask people outside your immediate reach

Go away from your target users and select random people to ask what kind of questions they have on a specific topic and what will be their concerns. If you look out of the box, it will give you a fresh understanding.

MyBlogU is a great way to do that. You need to post a new project in the “Brainstorm” section and ask members to contribute their thoughts.

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Seed Keywords: Ask your friends and followers

Seed keywords is another tool that enables you to find related keywords with help from your followers and friends. Simply create a search plot, share it on social media and ask your audience and followers to type in the keywords they will use to solve it.

Do not lead your search scenario. It means that you need to avoid guiding people to search the phrase according to your thinking.

Here is an example of a scenario:

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And here are the suggestions from real people:

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Additionally, you can also create similar surveys using Google Forms or SurveyMonkey.

Monitor questions people ask on Twitter

To monitor questions people ask on Twitter is another way to discover more opportunities. Twitter search supports question mark (?), search operator will filter the results containing a question. You need to put a space between your search term and question mark (?).

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I suggest using Cyfe to archive and monitor Twitter results because it gives a minimal dashboard which I can use to get unlimited searches on Twitter.

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Once you lack article ideas, you need to log in to Cyfe to see the archive and you can proceed with the above keyword research tools to get exposure to any idea.

Use spreadsheets to organize keyword phrases and questions you discover (see more on this below). Some of these questions may become the whole piece of content and some of them will be subsections of broader articles:

  • I personally do not analyze the search volume to conclude whether any of these questions need to be covered in a separate article or a subsection. According to Ahrefs research, there is no direct correlation between the popularity of the term and whether it will give rise to a featured snippet.
  • Use your best judgement based on your research and niche knowledge. How much you will be able to tell or answer any particular question. If it has a lot to do, you need to separate the article and use the keyword research to identify subsections of the future piece.

Optimizing for featured snippets

Start with on-page SEO

There is no magic button available that can lead your site to get featured. Of course, you need to start with SEO best practices. It is simple because you will get featured if you are ranking high in Google search results for the query.

Randy Milanovic did a good overview of tactics to make your content findable with ease. Do not forget to go through our SEO guide.

How about structured markup?

There are a lot of people who suggest using Schema.org. According to the Ahrefs study, as discussed earlier, there is no correlation between the featured results and structured markup.

So the best way to optimize for featured snippets is to give a better answer. Here are a few actionable tips:

1. Aim at answering each question concisely

In my opinion and observation, Google gives preference to feature an answer that was given within one paragraph.

According to the study of AJ Ghergich cites, the average length of a paragraph snippet is 45 words and the maximum of 97 words. So you need to keep it in mind that how long each answer should be in order to get featured:

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It does not mean that your articles should be one paragraph long. Google also gives more preference to long form content that is also known as cornerstone content. It is also a better way to describe it, it is not only about content but it also includes attention grabbing images. Even if you do not believe that cornerstone content gets special treatment in SERPs, paying attention to long articles will help you to encompass more related questions in one piece.

You need to adjust the blogging style of yours:

  • Ask the question in your article (that may be a subheading)
  • Immediately answer the question with a one-paragraph answer
  • Elaborate further in the article

These tactics are also result in higher user retention and it is the best way to make your post well structured. It will be much easier to read as well.

To quote AJ Ghergich,

“When you use data to fuel topic ideation, content creation becomes more about resources and less about brainstorming”.

2. Be factual and organize well

Google loves lists, numbers and steps. I have seen this again and again: for example, answer boxes will list the actual ingredients, time to cook, number of steps, year and city of birth etc.

In your paragraph where you are answering the question, make sure to list useful names and numbers. Get very factual.

In fact, according to the study of AJ Ghergich, the comparison charts and lists are easier way to get featured snippet in Google because Google loves well structured content.

In fact, even for branded queries when a user is searching a particular brand, Google will pick up the table from another website if it has a table, and not from the brand site itself:

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It only shows that Google loves well structured, number driven and factual content.

There is no standard markup to structure your content. Google seems to pick up <table>, <ul>, and <ol> and does not require any other pointers.

3. Make sure one article answers many similar questions

In the research of featured snippets by Ahrefs, it is found that once a page gets featured, there is a great chance that it will get featured in a lot of similar queries. So it should be structured and worded in such a way that it can address a number of related queries.

Google is very good at analyzing the synonymic and closely related terms and questions. There is no need to create a separate page that answers each specific question.

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Creating a single solid post addressing different related questions is a smart strategy. If you want to get featured in answer boxes. It leads us to the next tactic:

4. Organize your questions properly

In order to combine closely related questions in one post, you need to organize the queries in a proper way. It will also help you to structure your content.

I have a multi level keyword organization strategy which you can apply here as well:

  • A generic keyword makes a section or a category of the blog
  • A more specific search query becomes the title of the post
  • Even more specific queries determine the subheadings of the article and thus define its structure
  • There will be a number of queries which are so closely related and they will all go under a single subheading.

For example:

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Serpstat is a helpful tool in this regard, it is helpful in discovering an article idea and then breaking it into subtopics as well. it has questions section that can give hundreds of questions containing your core term and then generate a tag cloud of other popular terms that come up in those questions:

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When you click any tag cloud it will filter results to those questions that only have that word in them. These are subsections for your post or article:

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Here is a good example of how related questions can help you structure the article:

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5. Make sure to use eye-grabbing images

Paragraph featured snippets with images are eye-catching as compared to the regular featured snippets. You will be wondering how can you make an image to be featured in your content in snippets. You are helpless here, it is because Google seems to pick up a random image from your post.

So in order to take care of this section, you need to make sure that all of your images in-article are eye-catching, annotated and branded well. So it does not matter which image Google will feature. You need to visualize your content, put together charts, tables and graphs while working on your post.

Use Bannersnack to create eye-catching images for your brand. I love the functionality of their image editing. It allows you to create graphics quickly and resize them to reuse as banners and social media images and organize them in folders:

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6. Update and re-upload the images (WordPress)

WordPress adds dates to image URLs, so if you will update an article using new information, the images will be considered as old. I managed to get a couple of paragraph featured snippets using images once I started updating my images too:

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7. Monitor how you are doing

Ahrefs enables you to monitor the queries for which your domain is featured for, so you need to keep an eye on those. When they grow then new ones appear:

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Conclusion

It will take a lot of planning and research and you cannot be sure when you will see the results. Especially if you do not possess too many top 10 ranking in Google. So being featured in Google search results is your incentive to work harder on your content, consider it this way. You will also achieve more important goals your way there:

  • You will discover hundreds of new content ideas (and thus will rank for a wider variety of various long-tail keywords)
  • You will learn to research each topic more thoroughly (and thus will build more incoming links because people tend to link to indepth articles)
  • You will learn to structure your articles better (and thus achieve a lower bounce rate because it will be easier to read your articles)

Have you been featured in Google search results yet? Please share your tips and tricks in the comments below.

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Arsalan Rauf
Arsalan Rauf

Arsalan Rauf is an entrepreneur, freelancer, creative writer, and also a fountainhead of Green Hat Expert. Additionally, he is also an eminent researcher of Blogging, SEO, Internet Marketing, Social Media, premium accounts tips and tricks, etc.

www.greenhatexpert.com

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Best Adsense Invalid Click Protector Plugins for Bloggers

June 24, 2022 By Arsalan Rauf

Every blogger knows about Google Adsense. It is a program powered by Google and it enables you to show ads on your website or blog. When someone clicks on your ads then you earn money. It seems to be an easy task but Adsense is very strict for invalid click activities on Adsense account. In this post, I am going to share best WordPress plugins to protect Adsense or Adsense invalid click protector plugins.

If you want to know about Google Adsense

Read our posts about:

  • How to create an Adsense account
  • Google Adsense Account approval process

Invalid clicks are common all over the world. According to the report, invalid clicks are targeting Asian bloggers most of the time. If you are also facing invalid clicks on your WordPress site, you can protect Adsense account from invalid clicks using plugins. It will also prevent it. Go through this post to know the best WordPress plugins to protect invalid clicks, how to use them etc.

What is Click bombing or Invalid Clicks?

Click bombing or invalid clicks stand for getting more clicks on your ads than previous days. For example, usually, you get 15 clicks on your ads on daily basis. The very next day you observe that you are getting 40 to 50 clicks. It is known as click bombing. If your Adsense account shows CTR of 5, 10 or 15 that is more than normal CTR. It means that click bombing is going on.

In other words, if you are getting clicks from a single IP address can lead to click bombing and invalid clicks. This activity can disable or ban your Google Adsense account.

How to Protect Your Adsense Account from Invalid Clicks?

There are a number of plugins available on WordPress that can help you to protect your Adsense account from invalid clicks or activity. I give preference to two of them that are super easy to use. So let’s see them. If you do not know how to install a plugin, see our guide on how to install a plugin on WordPress.

Plugins to Protect Your AdSense from Invalid Clicks

1. AdSense Invalid Click Protector (AICP)

I personally use this plugin on my websites. Adsense Invalid Click Protector for blogger is super easy to use and it can protect your Adsense account from invalid click activities.

Adsense Invalid Click Protector plugin which is also known as AICP. It will protect your Google Adsense account from invalid clicks and click bombing. According to Google Adsense terms, Google does not claim any liability towards this invalid click activity or click bombing and call Adsense publisher into question. It considers him/her responsible for this activity. So you need to put an end to this issue for good.

How to Use AdSense Invalid Click Protector?

First of all, you need to install the plugin on your WordPress website by searching it on WordPress plugins like this:

Add AICP

Now click on activate, you will be able to see the plugin in your WordPress menu area:

AICP icon

Now click on the plugin to see an interface that will show settings. You need to set the Ad click limit, set the visitor ban duration and click counter cookie expiration time. Simply fill the settings according to your own wish or you can use these settings.

AICP interface

2. ClickBomb Protect

Clickbomb protect is another Adsense click bombing protection plugin. It is also known as Google Adsense click bomb barrier and protection plugin. It is easy to use. This plugin responds to any suspicious activity on your ads and prevents it. As a result, it stops the click capacity of advertisements on your post or page. You can set the number of clicks from the same IP, time of banning the user and so on.

Clickbomb protect also has the ability to work with any topic as well as format. This plugin will not let your Adsense account ban. In addition, it can block IPS that are doing any suspicious activity on your page or post and makes that user handicap.

Clickbomb Protect

How to Use Clickbomb-Protect?

Follow the same instructions for this plugin too. Just search it from WordPress directory and install it.

Click bomb Protect plugin search

Upon activation of this plugin, you will be able to see the plugin in the plugins section like this:

Clickbomb plugin in dashboard

You need to click the plugin and it will show you an easy interface where you can do configuration. It includes click duration, click limit and ban duration etc.

Complete the settings according to your wish and relax from the headache of invalid clicks.

Clickbomb interface

Google is always strict about invalid click or click fraud and will not allow that user to show ads if they caught him.

In addition, you need to pay attention to your Adsense report and details on daily basis. You may see variation in your CTR and it seems to be invalid activity for you.

So these were the best WordPress plugins to protect Adsense from invalid clicks and click bombing.

Am I missing something?

Do not hesitate to share your ideas.

Do you know any other best plugin to protect your Adsense?

I hope that you liked this post. Do not forget to share this post.

Arsalan Rauf
Arsalan Rauf

Arsalan Rauf is an entrepreneur, freelancer, creative writer, and also a fountainhead of Green Hat Expert. Additionally, he is also an eminent researcher of Blogging, SEO, Internet Marketing, Social Media, premium accounts tips and tricks, etc.

www.greenhatexpert.com

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