Apologies, I'm new here, so hopefully, I explain this well. I have an issue with Wordpress mobile where it's incorrectly displaying two different texts for the search title text. This is only on mobile, and it's only on our Wordpress pages.
I don't have a reputation to post the image, but here's the gist. You type in Google mobile pros and cons of bankruptcy, and ours shows up with the search title text: "Pros and Cons of Bankruptcy - Company | Blog - Company"
I like the Company | Blog as that's what we have in our settings, but I have no idea where the second "- Company" is coming from.
Any idea what's going on? Thank you so much!
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here is my site: escapebollaert.com
It is a site made on wordpress, my site is finished and I will want the referenced. I installed the Rank Math SEO plugin. But the problem is, when I modify the title and meta description with the Rank Math SEO plugin, and I do a search on google, the title and meta description do not appear? do you have a solution so that i can change the tittle and meta description of my site ?
I had the same thing few days back with one of my sites and it took google about 2 days to update it. But you need to know that in some (rare) cases, google will choose what they consider is the best thing to display on their search engine and you will have nothing to do about it. The only thing you can do (in my opinion) is to make sur the title of the page should be the same as the of your article.
How long are you waiting? It takes time for google to scrape your site and store what it wants to display to the searches.
I have a website which uses WordPress. In Google Search Results, when you search for a post, the title of the link to the post is displayed as:
Name-of-the-post | Site Title - Site address
For example, the same is on the picture below:
However, I want it to be
Name-of-the-post | Site Title
Like here:
Initially, for Site title I used the address of the website and the result was:
Name-of-the-post | Site address
However, when I added a different title for the site (from WordPress admin panel), I ended up with the text of the link as in the first picture.
I also have Yoast Seo Plugin installed, but I do not find any settings there related to Google Search results.
Is this something I can change, or is it up to Google to generate these titles?
Google replaces your title.
For it may be different reasons.
Google write about it:
If we’ve detected that a particular result has one of the above issues
with its title, we may try to generate an improved title from anchors,
on-page text, or other sources. However, sometimes even pages with
well-formulated, concise, descriptive titles will end up with
different titles in our search results to better indicate their
relevance to the query. There’s a simple reason for this: the title
tag as specified by a webmaster is limited to being static, fixed
regardless of the query. Once we know the user’s query, we can often
find alternative text from a page that better explains why that result
is relevant. Using this alternative text as a title helps the user,
and it also can help your site. Users are scanning for their query
terms or other signs of relevance in the results, and a title that is
tailored for the query can increase the chances that they will click
through.
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35624
Try add this meta tag to page:
<meta name="robots" content="noodp"/>
The breadcrumbs on my site don't display correctly so is someone able to advise how I can create custom breadcrumbs?
If I try and explain, if you visit the link below and select one of the prints:
http://mrsbest.co.uk/mini-best-art-prints/
You'll notice that the breadcrumb, looks like this:
You are here:Home / Christmas / Baby Gifts / Personalised Baby/Child’s Name Print
It displays the Christmas category instead of the actually file path, which should be:
You are here:Home / Mini Best Art Prints / Personalised Baby/Child’s Name Print
I understand why this is occurring - That's because "Mini Best Art Prints" is not a category. It's the title of a page. WordPress doesn't know that I'm displaying those products in that page with a shortcode. There's not any relation between the page and the products.
So I believe the solution is to create custom breadcrumbs. Is there any easy way of doing this, adapting the breadcrumb code or a plugin maybe?
Hope you can help :)
Kind Regards,
Sarah
I don't think there's going to be one right answer here - but someone else might drop in with a homer.
First
Checkout your theme functions.php, and other files that may have a function related to breadcrumbs. (You ought to be able to search the documents for 'breadcrumbs'.) You may find that the theme is already doing something with the breadcrumbs. That lead may allow you to do your own work in your childtheme.
Second
If it turns out that you are running default breadcrumbs (your theme doesn't modify them), see if you can simply get a workaround with your permalink settings and category names. It appears that your URLs are not in agreement with your stated filepath:
If your desired breadcrumb is:
Home / Mini Best Art Prints / Personalised Baby/Child’s Name Print
It would seem your URL would have to be:
mrsbest.co.uk/mini-best-art-prints/personalised-baby/childs-name-print
But your real URL is:
mrsbest.co.uk/product/personalised-monochrome-bunny-print/
Third
You can probably start with this and build your custom breadcrumb structure: https://docs.woothemes.com/document/show-product-categories-in-wooframework-breadcrumbs/
I actually have the category name in my url like:
http://blog.com/en/category-name/blog-post-title/
But If one day I would change this category name,
My url will change for all the blog post in relation with this category, then I will loose all my social shares.
Is it better for me to delete the category-name and just tag my post with the category name ?
I will have:
http://blog.com/en/blog-post-title/
I ask because I care about SEO but I'm not sure if it's better for google and others to have key information in my url.
Thank you in advance
This likely goes without saying - but just in case - anything related to SEO is really opinion - so I'll try and stay to what I have actually seen effect rankings over the last 2 years with Google specifically.
The first part of your question - IF I go back and change the category of some of my blog posts - which then in turn changes my URL - then YES I would say that could hurt your SEO efforts - as previously mentioned Google may see the older pages that had been previoiusly crawled now as a 404 Error - Page not found - and if you get enough of those it could hurt your rankings.
And - in my opinion - you actually want to make sure that you pay MORE attention to optimizing the category name than you do the post name as Google still values [from what I have seen with my own and client sites] those keywords in URLs closer to the root domain than it does keywords found further down the url. So YES I would argue with the more popular Wordpress permalink post stucture: yourdomain.com/category/post-name - that the category slug in the URL is MORE important than the post name.
Example #1: www.YourDomain.com/running/how-to-lose-weight
Example #2 www.YourDomain.com/how-to-lose-weight/running
All things exactly the same with the content on the actual post - I would go with Example #1 if I was targeting the keyword "running" and #2 if I was targeting the keywords "how to lose weight".
IF you intend on changing something later down the road - then I would suggest that you plan on producing additional content and post new posts or pages - Google is placing a high degree of importance on NEW - ORIGINAL content producted on a regular basis - so in the Running/How to Lose Weight example above those could easily be two different unique posts - with unique content - just switching the post name and category name.
So much can go into the URL sturcture of a Wordpress post or page - and I feel like it is typically over looked - or maybe more accurately stated - not looked at enough.
A great place to see how Google views your keyword density [including urls] is Webmaster tools - look at Google Index -> Content Keywords.
Great example of keyword density getting all sideways - is with physician practices - they want to say target Plastic Surgery - yet the main content keyword on almost all physician sites is "Patient" just because naturally that shows up a LOT on physician practice sites.
Hope that helps some.
The category-name in URL is usually category slug. So, if you even change the category title, it will not effect the URL.
Slugs are unique and are there usually for this reason, so you can make minor amendments it the title without breaking anything.
Best practise will be to architecture the application so that you don't have to make major amendments to unique identifiers.
For the other part of your question, YES it is bad for SEO if any link which was previously crawled by the bots got down.
I'm creating a dig like site with wordpress, TDO Mini forms and Vote it up where people who live in the city can log on, post their ideas of how to improve the city and have others vote.
on the home page there are 2 columns. right is the TDO submit form. left are the "Most Wanted" items. the posts with the highest rating. I've found an impressive lack of information on this plugin. im not great with php but i can make do most of the time.
I want to output the post title, post author, links for yes and no votes as well as have the titles in the left column list in most popular order. preferably id like the home pages to have only the top 5 or so highest rated posts.
I cant find any way to output that information as i need. I was really hoping there was a simple way to call the highest rated post titles in the loop for the main page but there doesnt seem to be a way. Bout the only thing i've found is the DisplayVotes tag which isnt incredibly helpful.
does anybody know how i can accomplish this, or can provide some expert advise? help would be immensely appreciated.
I was ready to download your plugin. Too bad it is not done.