A commenter asks:
on your page:
How do you prevent, that when a user searches in google like, say “From King Design to Crowd Favorite” on the SERP he is displayed by google the posting and not your https://alexking.org/articles page?
Like I see it, you don’t have a noindex on the https://alexking.org/articles page!
I’d never thought about this being an issue. To me, this is the same as the home page, the date and category archive pages, and links to posts in your sidebar – just another link to a post.
Any SEO folks out there want to chime in with thoughts/advice?
the first result on google is the article not the articles page. That page is, in essence a site map, that will probably not be indexed by the search engines overly effectively any way.
On your article page you have the following meta tag (which is really wasted, antiquated, and could be eliminated, especially if you are using a XML sitemap)
so, I think the question is really moot.
The archive pages is a basically a sitemap and is not SEOed. If I understand you correctly, you searched for, “From King Design to Crowd Favorite.â€
The top two results in Google have almost that exact phrase in their titles tags. That is why they were placed at the top of that SERP.
Because of this, it is very important to have very precise title tags. Google only displays between 58-65 characters including spacing.