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]
Have you filled out the “alt” tags properly. The chances of being indexed are less if the tag is not included. Additionally, the file name for the image should not be “quor7b.jpg” unless it’s a photo of a Quor7b. The file name should also reflect the image (e.g. rose.jpg).
WordPress responds to requests to a robots.txt with dynamic content if such a file does not exist. That’s one way how the settings from wp-admin/options-privacy.php are used. I recommend to create a static robots.txt, just to make sure no plugin is getting in your way. Sample robots.txt User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin Disallow: /wp-admin Disallow: /wp-includes … Read more
The WP in their URLs is not related to WordPress, it’s just a shorthand for WebPage. These types all have the type WebPageElement as parent. In my opinion, using WebPageElement or one of its sub-types (like WPHeader etc.) is pointless for general web pages (there are some special cases and non-HTML contexts where it might … Read more