Since Vipsky didn't get much in the way of a reply, maybe I can add some insight into why a forum search might not help him very much much - his question is the closest I could find to my own.
So, I recently began looking at ways that search engines will eventually find my sites. Starting from the assumption that BFA and WordPress were handling things like the title, meta description, meta keywords, etc. I started reading what Google has to say about SEO in their "Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide". This led me to think I would find nice tidy entries in my source code like:
<title>
<meta name="description" content=
<meta name="keywords" content=
On the four sites I'm working with, two have Atahualpa 3.3.3, one has 3.4.2, and one is using 3.5.3. It appears that 3.5.3 may have cleaned up some of the problems I've found in the other three, none of which have anything resembling my meta descriptions or keywords in the source code.
(Yes, I did select "Use Bytes For All SEO options?")
In the site (
http://www.kenyatravelchronicle.com) with 3.5.3, the tidy entries do appear as expected in the source code when I access it through a browser. However, the title is not the blog title (as entered in the WordPress "General Settings" page), but is taken from the tag for the home page. Also, I edited the meta description and keywords at some point, and BOTH versions show up, the new one did not replace the old. My instinct tells me that is not a good thing.
My first thought was to edit these items directly, at which point I discovered that the header.php file under Atahualpa 3.5.3, which has all the other info I'm seeing in the source code, does not contain:
<title>
<meta name="description" content=
<meta name="keywords" content=
These entries must be getting pulled from somewhere else, but where is that, and can I edit it directly? If so, should I turn off "Use Bytes For All SEO options?"
Any general explanation of the structure of all this would be greatly appreciated. Any specific strategies for how to handle these issues going forward would be even better.