WordPress is such a popular Content Management System that it now powers up[1] to 30 percent of all the websites existing over the Internet. Its popularity as a seamlessly easy-to-use website builder has made it the first choice of inexperienced and non-technical users who want to build their own websites through it.
To top it all, the amazing SEO plugins[2] such as the Yoast SEO and the All-in-One SEO plugin have made it tremendously easy for new users to take care of their website’s SEO. However, the entire journey of handling a website is not a cakewalk, even with WordPress[3]. There are always certain elements that will break havoc onto your site and make things go haywire. So, what are such issues that negatively affect a WordPress site’s SEO even when everything else is in place?
Let’s find out through this blog post where we talk about the most common WordPress errors that negatively affect our site’s SEO.
500 Internal Server Error
Definition: A very general HTTP status code, the 500 Internal Server Error is an indication of an unclear trouble with the website’s server. When the server can’t offer more specific information, it displays the 500 Internal Server Error.
How it affects the site’s SEO: If this error becomes a frequent one on your website, it will affect the reputation of your site for the visitors as well as the Search Engines It can eventually lead to a poor website experience for the users because obviously, no one wants to deal with a website that frequently displays errors.
404 Not Found
A failure to find the requested resource even after communicating with the server results