Hot answers tagged seo
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@nevster,
The best permalink structure for seo is /%category%/%postname%/
This permalink structure gives you the most keywords loaded into the URL of your post. Since the category that you’ve placed your post under usually relates to the post title, you will have an extra SEO benefit if other websites use that permalink structure to link your post.
EDIT
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6
take a look at WordPress SEO by Yoast it will cover :
1) make the title of the page, the
title of the post
2) make the
description based on the first
paragraph
as for your #3
make the keyword meta by parsing the whole post, retrieve all the relevant word that are more that 3% occurrence, and fill the meta with them
I highly doubt you ...
6
You can remove some of the header stuff with the following.
// remove unncessary header info
function remove_header_info() {
remove_action('wp_head', 'rsd_link');
remove_action('wp_head', 'wlwmanifest_link');
remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_generator');
remove_action('wp_head', 'start_post_rel_link');
remove_action('wp_head', ...
6
There is no documentation on it but you could always apply a filter to the_title like this:
add_filter('the_title','some_callback');
function some_callback($data){
global $post;
// where $data would be string(#) "current title"
// Example:
// (you would want to change $post->ID to however you are getting the book order #,
// but you ...
5
Decided to entertain the idea. Adapted from my snippet that changes anchors to collapsed domain names. Little too verbose, but seems to work.
add_filter( 'the_content', 'anchors_to_page_titles' );
function anchors_to_page_titles( $content ) {
preg_match_all( '/<a.*?href="(.*?)".*?>(.*?)<\/a>/', $content, $matches );
array_shift( ...
5
Any reasons you couldn't put an anchor link to the actual page in your tab control? Then use jQuery to make sure it returns false and doesn't "work" for normal visitors.
In fact, that's what the jQuery Tabs control page suggests:
Tabs supports loading tab content via Ajax in an unobtrusive manner.
The HTML you need is slightly different from the one that ...
4
Here's an answer from a slightly different perspective.
Personally, I would love it if the theme handled all of the SEO issues itself, instead of an external plugin. But whenever I build a custom theme for a client, I include the All in One SEO plugin even though my theme is already packed with SEO goodness.
The reason is because my clients aren't always ...
4
Hi @CJN:,
Your first question, moving the WordPress directory is handled differently from the rest.
Moving WordPress from Subdirectory to Root:
Go into /wp-config.php and add the following to defines (using your client's domain instead of example.com of course):
define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://example.com');
define('WP_HOME', WP_SITEURL);
301 ...
4
Hi *@Bobby Jack:*
You'll have absolutely zero problem given your number of pages and posts. If you were looking at 5000, 10k, 25k pages or more, then start to worry.
And the real problem is with categories as the URL base in the current implementation of WordPress' URL routing (which I hope to see changed in v3.2 or v3.3):
Category in Permalinks ...
4
Ideally, SEO should always be handled by the theme. Actually, most plug-in behavior that impacts the front-end of a site should be handled by the theme. Plug-ins like All in One SEO are quick solutions for people who don't want to invest the time required to re-code a theme they built, downloaded from a free site, or purchased from another developer.
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4
SEO is not a thing that can be stockpiled and then expended. There are no SEO points.
Absolutely different WordPress themes can effect how your site is indexed. Some themes are full of crap code. Some themes are full of junky outgoing links. Some themes look so ugly that user engagement will plummet. And so on.
What theme do you have now, and what theme ...
4
Try putting this snippet in your functions.php
<?php
function rel_next_prev(){
global $paged;
if ( get_previous_posts_link() ) { ?>
<link rel="prev" href="<?php echo get_pagenum_link( $paged - 1 ); ?>" /><?php
}
if ( get_next_posts_link() ) { ?>
<link rel="next" href="<?php echo ...
4
You'll find this post by Joost De Valk on changing WordPress permalinks to only include /%postname% very helpful.
How many posts you have doesn't matter anymore if you are using the latest version of WordPress (at least > v3.3.1).
I believe your permalink structure initially was — this /blog/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ — and now, you are planning ...
4
From the WordPress SEO FAQ:
... either enable "Force rewrite titles" on the SEO -> Titles settings page, or go into your header.php and change the title element to just this:
<title><?php wp_title(''); ?></title>
Did you try that?
3
Actually your site is indexed all 176 pages. It would probably help your search results if you changed your permalink structure to something other than default.
You should also get a yourself a Google Webmaster Tools account so you can see how your site gets indexed and crawled.
3
Provide content that people crave to find, consume and share.
There is no technical solution to make site popular. If there was one - everyone would use it and field will be leveled again.
There are a lot of minor tweaks to implement (heading structure, social buttons, etc), but none of those will automagically bring in traffic and none of those work ...
3
Didn't try this myself (self-hosted from the start), but this seems fitting guide for your situation:
How to Migrate your Blog from WordPress.com to a Personal Domain ( Digital Inspiration )
3
The problem is that your author pages are marked with the noindex tag, look at the page source:
It must be a plugin that is doing that, that is not the default setting.
If you don't want the duplicate pages, try a plugin like Yoast WordPress SEO that let you add Nofollow to comment links.
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Hi @aj martin:
Here's two different solutions (editing the specifics for your use case):
Doing a Redirect:
1.) At the top of your /wp-config.php file add the following:
if ( is_yoursite_blogger_domain( $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] ) ) {
$domain = str_replace( 'www.', '', $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] );
define( 'WP_SITEURL', 'http://' . $domain );
define( ...
3
Throw this into your functions.php:
function clear_yoast_metadesc( $metadesc ) {
return '';
}
add_filter( 'wpseo_metadesc', 'clear_yoast_metadesc', 99, 1 );
If you set the $metadesc to empty like that, it won't be echoed. BTW, bulk editing is very hard on my to-do list, so you would be able to switch back completely :)
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You should use a sitemap module to generate a list of URLs created by XOOPs [e.g. xSitemap].
Then you have to set up your .htaccess to 301 redirect each URL to its corresponding page in the new Wordpress instance.
Finally, you should consider installing a Wordpress plugin like Redirection to check for 404s and redirect them nicely to the new instance.
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When you hear about SEO-friendliness of CMS it is essentially same as for static page - how URL looks and what gets into source of page.
Essentially WP is considered SEO-friendly because:
It is easy to get pretty permalinks enabled and working
There is large choice of themes and plugins, aimed at following recommended SEO guidelines (titles, meta tags, ...
3
The best way of doing that is actually by just copying the post to your new blog, and on your old blog, add a rel="canonical" link to that page to your new post's URL. This will notify Google and other SE's that you want to have the other, new, page ranking, without actually having to annoy your users.
There are several plugins that can do canonical, two of ...
3
To get a working nav menu WordPress needs to be set up complete. My suggestion is to use add_feed(). Ignore the name, you get text/html as output.
Let's start with code
<?php # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
/*
Plugin Name: T5 Iframe Nav Menu
Description: Display a nav menu in an iframe.
Version: 2012.05.18
Refresh the permalinks after activation!
*/
...
3
I would not trust your SEO contractor on this one. The reason Wordpress does that by default is to attempt to feed search engines a page name that has words in it rather than an arbitrary database location. Google can use the words semantically to attempt to classify the page; whereas, they can't if the page is called ?p=31245 or whatever.
Having all those ...
3
Yoast uses wp_head hook to output the meta description tag. Make sure you have this line in your <head>:
<?php wp_head(); ?>
For title tag, you can simplify the code by using one function call:
<?php wp_title( '|', true, 'right' ); ?>
The wp_title uses a filter (same name wp_title) to let users change the title tag. And Yoast uses ...
3
In order to play nicely with Plugins or other code that attempts to modify the HTML document title content (i.e. wp_title() output), you should always and only output this:
<title><?php wp_title( '' ); ?></title>
...and if you want to modify that output yourself, filter wp_title instead of hard-coding anything inside the ...
2
I'd need to see your site to be sure, but there's a very good chance it's your theme (not WordPress itself) that's setting the extra description field. You can remove that from your header.php file and you should be set. WordPress itself doesn't have SEO features like that built-in.
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In response to EAMann:
means you don't need to worry about
upgrades potentially breaking your
site if they introduce new bugs that
conflict with other systems you're
using
If you DON'T use a plugin, you potentially risk the complete loss of functionality when you change your theme. If you use AIO, or Headspace, you can change your themes ...
2
I've set up YOURLS for and have been extremely pleased. With the wordpress plugin, it will automatically create a short url for you if there isn't one. And with the Admin of YOURLS you can create your own custom short url's to anything you want, granted it isn't in WP Admin.
I don't believe you can set your own custom url at the post creation either, you ...
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