I have a WordPress website where I created a static page for each article. In the menu, you can see subjects such as “Music”, “Traveling”, “Football”, and by following the menu you can find links to each article (one static page per article).
When I type my name in Google, I notice my website is showing amongst the top results.
However, I cannot find any of my pages/articles back in Google.
Example: I have written about several soccer/football games I visited, the names of the teams involved are part of the URL of those pages.
Still, when I type the name of a team I wrote about in Google, my article isn’t showing in the search results.
Is there anything I could do to increase my chances of Google showing my articles in the results? Can I point my site to Google so that it indexes the whole website?
One thing I was wondering… I could replace all static pages by blog posts, and then in the menu list all articles per subject with hyperlinks to the corresponding blog posts. In other words, one blog post per article instead of one page per article. This would be a lot of work, but the one reason I was thinking about this is that in blog posts you can add tags for search engines to find your articles/posts easily.
Would it make a difference for me to do this, or is there a way for my static pages to show in search engine results too?
This is more SEO (search engine optimization) than WP but I’ll continue. Having the pages be static instead of posts will make 0 difference to google.
Have you set yourself up in google search console? I’d start there but also realize that a soccer teams name will be a lot ore competitive than your name when it comes to ranking.
I’ve been out of SEO for a few years so someone with more up to date knowledge can tell you what ranking factors matter most
Type whatever your normal query would be into Goolge but add site:whateveryoursiteis.com.
If it’s indexed it should show up there.
But you should probably also get set up on Google Search Console. That will tell you for sure.