WHMCS All-In-One SEO Guide for 2021 (1)

1. WHMCS ALL-IN-ONE SEO GUIDE FOR 2021

2. What is WHMCS? WHMCS (Web Host Manager Complete Solution) is the leading platform for web hosts, resellers, and other web professionals to automate and manage their business more efficiently.

3. So many features in one place! A huge client base! The biggest reason is – WHMCS is not SEO-friendly. Still, why do companies use WHMCS as a subdomain (subdirectory) just for the client area? Why do they prefer other Content Management Systems as a front-end? Why not WHMCS?

4. Increase session time, page views and decrease the bounce rate Identify external links or missing backlinks Use internal anchor text to increase positioning Create interactive and highly informative infographics Interlink all the related posts within your website Expert Tips to Build an Excellent SEO Strategy For Your WHMCS Website

5. Eliminate all the technical errors your website may have Install a security certificate on your website Make sure your website is ready for mobile-first indexing Use comments to add keywords and synonyms Add Structured data to improve your web positioning Expert Tips to Build an Excellent SEO Strategy For Your WHMCS Website

6. Write Effective Content Appropriate Blog or Article length Using HTML Tags Page Meta Title Meta description 01 02 03 04 05 BEST WHMCS SEO TIPS YOU SHOULD CONSIDER FOLLOWING

7. Open Graph Protocol SEO-Friendly URL Canonical URL Sitemap XML HTML Lang Attribute 06 07 08 09 10 BEST WHMCS SEO TIPS YOU SHOULD CONSIDER FOLLOWING

8. 1. WRITE EFFECTIVE Content • Use Original content • Create attractive and strong headings • Be accurate about sources of information Let’s now discuss how to write effective content and other details that you must know. Writing engaging content is not a piece of cake. You have to put your efforts, time, and creative ideas to reach the target audience. If your content is engaging then chances are you will reach a mass audience. So, here are a few tips that can make your content the way your audience wants.

9. 2. APPROPRIATE BLOG OR ARTICLE LENGTH Now let’s have a glance at what should be the adequate length of the article. You might have encountered many people who advised you to write nearly 500-1000 or 2000 words per blog. But do you want to know how exactly you should decide? Then always consider the industry for which you are writing. As it all depends on the need of the company whether they want to focus on content or images.

10. 3. USING HTML TAGS • Image Tag • Expert Tips • NoFollow Attribute • Title Tag • Open Graph Tag • Building links SEO helps to attract what every business demands and that is traffic. The best way to engage a lot of traffic is by using HTML tags. When a search engine’s crawler comes across your content, it looks for HTML tags to determine how to categorize the content. Wondering how to do it? Let’s have a look at it.

11. 4. PAGE META TITLE • Include keywords in a natural way • Make it relevant • Aim for 45-55 characters After writing the content and including HTML tags the next thing is to write a title. The title is the very first thing that readers come across and from there they decide whether they want to read the article or not. So how do you realize how much important it is?

12. 5. META DESCRIPTION • Write Compelling Description • Avoid Duplicate Meta Description • Don’t Include Double Quotation Marks It provides a summary of the web page. Although it doesn’t affect the ranking it does affect the traffic on your website. If it is not up to the mark it will not attract the targeted audience. The more innovative and creative meta description is the more it will help to attract customers.

13. 6. OPEN GRAPH PROTOCOL How do OG tags actually help? • Improves the shareability of the content on social media • Helps to double the social engagement • Helps to successfully drive more traffic • Save lots of time You might have seen on Facebook that a link automatically pulls an image, description, and title. Have you ever thought about how it is happening? It is possible due to OG tags, a dedicated technology for social media.

14. 7. SEO-FRIENDLY URL • Default WHMCS product pages look like the following: hostxdemo/cart.php?gid=24 • With HostX WHMCS theme, you will get: hostxdemo/enterprise-servers.php URL that includes keywords improves the search visibility of the website. Recently, we have introduced one powerful whmcs theme in which you can set the URL of the product pages according to your own requirements.

15. 8. CANONICAL URL As you know WHMCS is based on query strings that are bad for SEO. The query strings are the main cause of the duplicate contents. host demo/?language=dutch hostxdemo/cart.php?gid=3&language=farsi Now, you can manage all your WHMCS SEO aspects simply using the WHMCS SEO Manager Theme as it allows you to manage your Social Media, Analytics, Page Sections, and all other SEO attributes.

16. 9. SITEMAP XML Now the next thing of our concern must be XML Sitemap. First of all, let’s know a bit about it. An XML sitemap lists the important pages of a website to ensure that Google can find and crawl them all, and allows it to understand the layout of your website. And if you are thinking about who needs XML sitemap then it is advised for large websites, or for the websites which use a large amount of media content, and so on.

17. 10. HTML LANG ATTRIBUTE On top of every website, there is a small piece of HTML that assists search engines to find out the language of the webpage. However, WHMCS doesn’t understand the use of HTML lang attribute. WHMCS always assumes the page language is English. If you are new to Web hosting and want to start your own business check out our guide on How to start a Reseller Hosting Business?

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