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 … Read more
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What’s the most efficient solution when augmenting google custom search results with taxonomies?
Change Page Title Many plugins and themes might be controlling this area. However, despite this, if you change your Title on the Home Page, it should update your HTML title tag also. This will then update on Google when it next indexes your site, which might take several days. Google and other search engines use … Read more
AMP Sitemap Error in Google Search Console
This took the index some more time, but after around six weeks, the blocked images are no longer displayed as search results. I am not sure if this will help for future uploads for photos of the same people with different filenames, but I had added strings with placeholders like these: User-Agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/*adam*smith*.jpg … Read more
I would suggest not using the hash bang urls. Consider PJAX: https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax It does partial page loads to speed things up and gracefully degrades for users with JavaScript disabled and search bots. There is even a little library for making using PJAX in themes a bit easier (example).
The easiest way to see if W3 Total Cache is the cause would be to disable the plugin and see if that fixes the issue. But what you’re seeing is an unfiltered post. Usually, the content of the post is passed through the_content filter, and those shortcodes are replaced. Something in your search results is … Read more
To ensure your content isn’t crawled from the hidden admin DOMAIN you could include something like this in your .htaccess file. RewriteEngine On #Force traffic to production URL RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !xxxx.com$ [NC] RewriteRule (.*) http://www.xxxx.com/guides/%{REQEUST_URI} [R=301,L] There is more than one way to handle this first redirect so your code may work too (didn’t test … Read more
You could check for a log-in cookie in your .htaccess, but that can be spoofed: RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} ! wordpress_logged_in_.+= [NC] RewriteRule \.pdf$ – [F,L]