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What is the best permalink structure for SEO?
In the past I've used the Day and Name or Month and Name settings.
Should the date structure be omitted and just have
/%postname%/
?
Ie does having the date information reduce the quality of the ...
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If i switch my current wordpress blog theme with a new one, will i lose the SEO i have built up for my site?
if If i switch my current wordpress blog theme with a new one, will i lose the SEO i have built up for my site?
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Is sanitize_title enough to generate post slugs?
I want to generate slug for some strings without going through WordPress slug generation flow. Therefore, I want to know which functions it calls to get a neat slug. I tried sanitize_title() but it ...
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How to remove dates from existing permalinks?
After doing some research about dates on blogs, it seems like it is a good idea to remove them from the existing posts.
Consider:
Self-hosted (on Bluehost)
Over 1,000 existing posts
All posts are ...
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Custom Post Types, slug, archive and SEO plugins
I made a custom post type called "friends".
I am able to correctly list my friends using this urls:
http://mysite/friends/friend1/
http://mysite/friends/friend2/
http://mysite/friends/friend3/
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Should a SEO plugin be necessary?
I'm using the All in One SEO plugin for my site. The extra fields and options it supplies seem like they could be handled via a theme, possibly negating the use for a plugin.
Should SEO ...
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Redirecting traffic from old “.WordPress.com” blog to privately hosted WordPress blog?
I've got a blog hosted on .wordpress.com, ie the free version.
I'm thinking of re-activating my hosting package so I can have my own WP installation, and therefore have more customisation options ...
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Minimal custom permalink structure
I'm aware that there are posts discussing this issue already (e.g. http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/1364/what-is-the-best-permalink-structure-for-seo) but I have a specific set of ...
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How do I set up a custom URL shortener for my posts?
I have several different sites running off WordPress, and the URLs tend to get fairly long and cumbersome (particularly when I try to publish them via Twitter). I recently purchased a very short ...
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Migrating from other CMS to WP - losing SEO juice?
I'm thinking about migrating a client's website from a super-old cms (xoops) to WP. However the site is quite old so I don't want him to lose any SEO juice he acquired through the years (PR: 2). ...
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How to make ajax content indexable by search engines?
What's the best practice for exposing ajax delivered content within WordPress to ensure that it's indexable by Google, etc.?
I've got a site where I am using the jQuery tabs control to display ...
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Blog not indexed
my blog is 6 months old, with frequently updated content. Yet, not a single page is indexed by Google. Why is that so? isn't wordpress set up for SEO by default?
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Block comments from search engine indexing
I remember there used to be an option on WordPress to block comments from search engine indexing. I can't find it anywhere, though.
Does anyone have suggestions or alternatives? Thanks.
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How Does One Change The Meta-Description Of Home-Page?
In WordPress, How Does One Change The Meta-Description Of The Home-Page?
Honestly, I have searched low and high for the answer to this in WordPress. Went to every page in the back-office to no avail.
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How can I move/redirect single blog posts from one blog to another?
I see lots of answers about moving entire blogs, but here's my scenario:
I have a few blogs with a lot of content. I'm no longer publishing new content on these sites. I'm now publishing on another ...
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How to let crawlers search paginated comments?
With comment pagination, Google doesn't index the older pages and comments become essentially lost to searches.
Is there a way to let search engines crawl paginated comments, perhaps by generating a ...
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Adding rel=“next” & rel=“prev” for paginated archives
Does someone perhaps know a plugin or snippet (besides Yoast's WordPress SEO) to accomplish this perhaps? Pagination with rel=“next” and rel=“prev”
The only thing I've come across seems to be an ...
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A Specific Blog post to be assigned as the landing page of my wordpress blog
Is it possible for a specific blog post (in wordpress) to be the landing page? For example my domain name is www.overflowingstupidity.com and I have this blog entitled post "How to burn your house ...
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Best Way to Leverage Custom Post Type Related Content and Consider SEO
I'm doing a real estate project for a client. I've created a custom post type called "communities" to list new construction communities in her area.
I also want to have deeper sub pages but I would ...
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Get a permalink structure of /%posttype%/%category%/%postname%
I have a custom post type named Reportage, added in functions.php:
add_action( 'init', 'create_post_type' );
function create_post_type() {
register_post_type( 'reportage',
array(
...
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SEO - Two WordPress websites on same domain name
Would there be any negative SEO effects for having a wordpress website at example.com and having another website at example.com/anothersite?
Would the site "anothersite" be indexed in search engines ...
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Filtering categories in the permalink structure
Using /%category%/%postname%/ for the permalink I get a URL string of all the categories that the specific post is included in.
I would like the categories in the url to be filtered down to only one ...
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Automatic SEO for wordpress
I know the ultimate seo plugin for seo optimizing seo. But with more that 250 post, and no seo plugin installed, i like to know if there is a plugin that will
1) make the title of the page, the title ...
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Plugin to automatically change anchor text of urls to the destinations title?
Say I link to http://www.glumbo.com on one of my posts. I want wordpress to automatically change the anchor text of the link to glumbo.com's title. How can I do this?
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WordPress for a business catalog site
I am completely noob with WordPress so I apologize in advance if my questions sounds completely stupid.
Background
I have a small business catalog site that I wrote long ago in plain HTML. Now I ...
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Creating 301 Redirects for Post, Page, Category and Image URLs?
I fear this may be too much to ask here, so if so, please feel free to tell me of another place to learn.
Help with Redirections
I'm cleaning up a badly developed site and migrating wordpress from a ...
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Does WP always makes 301 redirection?
We rented a SEO specialist for our site, and he says that we have to do some changes in site structure before he starts his work.
The first is, that now most pages have 301 redirection.
For ...
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Are Categories, Tags and Custom Taxonomies any different in regards to SEO?
Simple question, really. I know pretty much nothing about SEO, and i'm trying to define a good structure for this clients online magazine.
I already know i'll be using a few custom taxonomies along ...
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Multiple Domain Names - One WP Install (non-Multisite) - Default Each Domain name to Category Archive
Use case is somewhat simple - here goes:
Five people share a single wordpress install - not multi-user
Each person blogs and puts their posts in a their own unique category
Each person has their ...
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If I change permalink structures, can I use htaccess to permanantly redirect links?
Ive got some super old links that have a lot of SEO juice and I dont want to lose that if I change permalink structure. This is partly due to the older version of WP i have (2.1)
I want to use post ...
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Wordpress Blog and SEO
I need some support on restructuring the directories and settings with my current WP site for better SEO purposes. I have the following settings:
WP is installed in the root.
Permanent Links are set ...
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SEO images in Nextgen Galleries
I have a couple blogs / wordpress sites that I post pictures on. I have noticed that most of the pictures I post with the nextgen gallery plug in never show up in google images search. Is there a ...
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Wordpress plugin for nicer looking slugs? Have multiple pages named the same but they get different slugs
This wordpress site I'm touching up has a page hierarchy which is responsible for the urls.
Basically the urls look like page1/subpage/subsubpage etc.
The problem is, this site is for a recurring ...
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qTranslate conflicts with SEO-plugins
I have an issue with a clients site. I installed the Yoast SEO-plugin (which i find to be great), but when i activate it i get lot's of error messages (See below).
...
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How do I turn off 301 redirecting posts (not canonical)?
I noticed a strange behavior in WordPress where it automatically 301 redirects certain URL structures for posts.
For example, I have a post entry for:
mysite.com/999/about-us
Then, you would think ...
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Disabling archives, search results, comments, etc?
I am working on a site that has only text articles, and I am not making use of comments, archives, trackbacks and other features.
How can I make so these pages show a 404 not found error? I am not ...
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Blank Pages with # URL & Google
I'm using some blank pages that have a title only and a URL set to '#' for my navigation. (So, that the item appears in the dropdown menu, but when it's clicked a page doesn't open).
Do I need to ...
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How to implement pagination in backward way eg. first - 20 - 19 - 18 - … - 3 - 2 - 1 - last
How can I implement pagination in backward style, like shown in the title.
(newest) first - 20 - 19 - 18 - ... - 3 - 2 - 1 - last (oldest)
I have search plugin, there are not yet plugin for this.
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A solution to set metatags with my page generating plugin?
I have a plugin which generates a page automatically. Is there a way I can add functionality to this plugin which would allow me to set the meta description, keywords, and title for the page? I've ...
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Copy SEO Meta Desc “Custom Field” to Excerpt field?
I'd really like to take all of my old posts, and automatically use the meta descriptions we have written – currently done for each post using All In One SEO Pack – and copy them to also be our post ...
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category url structure
Is it possible to have listed all available categories on www.example.com/category/ request. Using the following url as mentioned in my example generating 404 error.
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How Do I Set the Page Title Dynamically?
Is it possible to change the page title with code?
For example, let's say the page's name is "Book your Order", but I want to change it to "Book Order #123".
I Google'd a bit and looked here and ...
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Wordpress wp_head() crap
I know, wp_head() is important, but it inject so much crap into the header, i like to get it out... and just add manually the 2-3 line of code i need..
BUT, and there is always a but, i need the ...
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Wordpress page title repeated in SOME pages
I have created a Wordpress site and titles were working just fine. Then, some time and plugins installed later, I noticed that in SOME pages I get the title repeated 2 times.
Example of wrong page ...
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ASCII titles with Yoast SEO plugin
I'm finding that SEOmoz is showing page titles with ASCII when indexing my customer's site http://bulldogfencespokane.com. I'm concerned that this is how search engines will index the site. I'd love ...
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What is/are the best thing(s) I can do to make my WordPress blog more popular? [closed]
What are the best things that I can do to get my Wordpress blog out there? What are good plugins that I can use to get listed in Googles search? Is there anything/anywhere else I can register my ...
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SEO meta description and title tag Yoast SEO
I am using Yoast SEO and a custom header.
this obv means that any code that yoast uses to input all the seo stuff such as title tag and meta description wont be there.
I solved the title tag by ...
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Change Site Title and Description html tags if not home page
For the purpose of good HTML structure, accessibility and SEO I'd like to change the site's title and description from H1 and H2 to P when appearing on any page other than the homepage. A conditional ...
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What makes WP so SEO friendly?
I keep hearing that Wordpress is the best SEO solution, better than most static websites because of multiple reasons. I then go on to hear contradicting information elsewhere. So: Is Wordpress ...
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Help in using SEO Plugins: SEO Ultimate And Yoast SEO Plugin
I've deleted my previous question as it was migrated from Prowebmaster to WordPress section, and hence it was deep down somewhere.
I'm in a quandary about using SEO Plugin for my WordPress site. ...
