Technical SEO (#3): How can you give your website VIP treatment for users and bots?

Hey there, fellow website owners! Ever wondered how you can make your website shine bright for both human visitors and those sneaky search engine bots? Let me spill the beans on this SEO secret!

Here’s the deal: you want to give those Google bots the red carpet treatment while still keeping your human users happy, right? Well, it’s as easy as serving up different content based on who’s knocking at your virtual door.

Now, let me show you how to whip up some magic code for your #WordPress site that’ll do just that:

<?php

function lazy_seo_text($content) {

  if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'Googlebot') !== false) {

    // Show Googlebot index1.html

    include 'index1.html';

  } else {

    // Show regular users index2.html

    include 'index2.html';

  }

}

add_filter('the_content', 'lazy_seo_text');

?>

P.S. Add this code to: functions.php

With this nifty snippet, your website will detect when Google’s crawlers come crawling and treat them to a special message. Meanwhile, your human visitors will get their own personalized greeting.

But hey, don’t stop there! You can get even fancier by tailoring other elements of your site—like titles, meta descriptions, and even structured data—to cater to both bots and humans alike.

So there you have it, lazy website owners! With just a little bit of code magic, you can roll out the red carpet for those search engine bots while still keeping your human visitors happy as can be. Now go ahead and give your website the VIP treatment it deserves!