There is an extremely high chance that this article is stoking the paranoia. It’s correct but only in the strictest of senses. In practicality it’s just a fancy name for “when you leak things that aren’t meant to be public, people who saw it might tell you if you ask them”, but specifically Google. Google … Read more
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WP_DEBUG is a constant which you can define in wp-config.php to disable hiding of PHP errors and notices. Add define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true); to your config file to enable it. Just remember to never leave it on for long on a live blog. Since all pings fail this is likely not an issue with specific sitemap service, … Read more
The problem had a very simple cause – the WP privacy settings were set to “hide blog” without me noticing, that’s why the website did not get craweled well by Google.
It’s called Author Rich Snippets. Your link needs to look like <link href=”https://plus.google.com/115911773396772351667?rel=author”/>Your Name</a> The Simple Way To Set Up Author Rich Snippets There are a few things you need in order to step up Author Rich Snippets: A public Google+ profile. Make sure to upload a decent looking profile picture. Google will use this … Read more
Google’s Webmaster Tools allows you to request pages to be removed from Google’s index. This should happen a bit quicker than waiting for the crawler to remove the site automatically. If you haven’t already, you or your client will need to add the develop site to Webmaster Tools. Then you can do the following for … Read more
Google doesn’t always show the meta descriptions and title’s that you set. This is taken directly from Google’s Search Console help pages. Google’s generation of page titles and descriptions (or “snippets”) is completely automated and takes into account both the content of a page as well as references to it that appear on the web. … Read more
I know – I hate the fact that Google indexes the site code, and then floods my logs with 404s for old files. You can add something like this to your robots.txt file: User-agent: * Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/ Disallow: /wp-content/themes/ You could probably just have Disallow: /wp-content/ but that would also stop your images in the … Read more
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.
Really depends on how your redirects are set up. But you can check the status code using Firebug (or a comparable tool with a request profiler). Open up the “net” tab in firebug, and hit one of your old URLs. You should** see the request show up at the top of the list, and you’ll … Read more