All-in-one-SEO not working
I love this theme! That said, ever since I've installed it my readership has dropped. I have the SEO option set to not use Atahualpa's SEO functions. I use All-in-one-SEO, supported by Atahualpa, but I'm getting no search engine hits like I used to.
Have any of you had this problem? Thanks, John |
Post a URL so I can see if something is wrong with your site. All in one SEO should work fine with Atahualpa.
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I see no problems in the source code, such as HTML tags inside the head section. All in one SEO seems to be working. W3C throws out a few errors but nothing too serious as far as I can see, most of them caused by a "link enhancer" http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...Inline&group=0
This should not affect search engine rankings. I did however notice that some of your pages are listed in Google in an odd way: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:...n.com&start=10 The single post page "Descent into Chaos", 5th result from the top, is listed with the URL relaxandhavefun.com/?p=43=1 although it should be relaxandhavefun.com/?p=43 http://www.google.com/search?q=site:...un.com&start=0 The single post page "Orientalism|Book Reviews", 2nd result from the top, is listed with the URL relaxandhavefun.com/?p=27%22 although it should be berelaxandhavefun.com/?p=27 %22 is the Hex code for a double quote. Looks like that specific post once was linked as href="link"" (with 2 double quotes at the end) There may be more like this. I have not looked further than page 5 in Google. Atahualpa does not seem to generate those =1 and %22 appendices. I could not see those pages linked from your site that way. While these URL issues indicate that something is wrong (or rather: was wrong) it may not be the (sole) reason for the traffic drop you're seeing, this can have 100 other reasons. |
Flynn,
Thank you for looking at this. For a test, I re-saved the Orientalism post, with no changes. Can you look at it and see if it still has the same info? That post used to have a link to a photo. The link is dead. I will fix it later tonight. Just curious if merely re-posting made any change. Thanks, Crippen |
No real luck with this. I tried disabling all-in-one-SEO and using the Atahualpa SEO functions for a while. That made no difference. So I reactivated all-in-one-SEO. Site traffic is still terrible compared to pre-Atahualpa. This is not a commercial site, so it's no big deal. It's just bothersome that something's changed and my page are possibly less-found than before. -Crippen
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I wish I could help you with this but I think that Atahualpa did not harm your search engine rankings. There can be so many other reasons for your search engine traffic drop.
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I have a similar issue with www.windermerelogcabin.com
Three months down the line - registered with google webmaster tools, created site map etc etc. Zero Gogle / Live results Every other web site I have done has ranked within days. Is there a setting in this theme or in Wordpress which can stop it being picked up? Here is my robots.txt Quote:
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And I just discovered that there is a WP setting under privacy settings that stops search engines!!
How THAT got set to do that i have NO idea ;-0 Hopefully now solved. |
With regard to the above Post #8
Where exactly is the information as shown regarding Robots.txt file, actually located ?? Thanks. |
it a file in one of your directories. do a google search on robots.txt and you find info about it.
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Hi Juggledad,
I agree, there ought to be a WP Robots.txt file as detailed above in #Post 8 however, alas, there is no such file!?! Still, like to know as to which Options is being referred to in: # This is your robots.txt file. Visit Options->Robots.txt to change this text. in above Post #8 |
You could try out the 'KB Robots.txt' plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/kb-robotstxt/
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Thank you ever so much, Juggledad
I shall now investigate! :) PS. I have removed my site from Google Webmaster Tools. |
Sorry - not been around for a while - I was accessing robots.txt via the plug in JD mentioned
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