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SEO Issue

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Started 8 months ago by illusio
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illusio
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Since I've been using BigFeature, my page ranking in Google has been producing some strange results. I installed WordPress in a subfolder called "wp" from this tutorial. For example, do a search for "illusio design" with Firefox and this is the result below. My site used to come up first.

http://www.illusiodesign.com/

http://www.illusiodesign.com/?page_id=2

As you can see, there's no site description or abstract provided. I'm using the All in One SEO Pack and Meta Tag Manager to create the meta tags. I'm just wondering if installing in a sub directory is affecting Google page rank. Any thoughts and anyone else running into this issue?

- Chuck

Posted 8 months ago #
bhz
Member

Strange. I haven't had any issues like this with BF. I've been running it live for about a week now. Spiders come as often as ever and new posts are getting indexed with the proper meta data within a few minutes. I'm running All-in-One SEO as well.

If I do a Google query for:
site:www.illusiodesign.com

I see your pages indexed with meta data. It might just be an indexing delay, though I'd definitely check to make sure that your permalink structure is setup properly, because it looks like Google is ocassionally looking for the blog at http://www.illusiodesign.com/wp/

Beautiful site design, by the way!

Posted 8 months ago #
illusio
Member

Thanks for the compliments and checking bhz. My site also appears to be redirecting from http://illusiodesign.com to http://www.illusiodesign.com which I didn't set up with the .htaccess file. This is also causing all of my panels to expand every time I log into WordPress - which is very annoying. I'm wondering if this redirection issue is causing problems with search engines trying to index current versions of my site.

Note: I cleared my cache and cookies in Firefox and the panels have stopped expanding. Weird.

Posted 8 months ago #
admin
vfxdude

I recomend to upgrade to the latest version of the theme, since some SEO stuff has been implemented in version 1.3.

Posted 8 months ago #
kamalr82
Member

geeezz very nice design... :)

Posted 8 months ago #
megahurt
Member

What exactly is the "SEO stuff" built into BF? Am I missing it?

Posted 8 months ago #
admin
vfxdude

dynamic title tags, dynamic meta tags, h1/h2 tags in right places (post titles is h2 on frontpage/archives/search and h1 in single/pages), post title in alt tag of default images, setting styles was removed from header.php and put into an internal css/php file, scripts was moved to the footer, sitemap, related posts, recent posts, featured posts widget.

Posted 8 months ago #
malady
Member

I'm using the 1.3 version of the theme and Im having the same issue. The description etc is not working at all in google. Very frustrated. I have All In One SEO pack installed and nothing.. Google only displays the result of the site name no abstract or description. To the OP I see you somehow managed to correct this issue... can you tell me how you did so?

Posted 5 months ago #
admin
vfxdude

with OP, do you mean LP, Live Preview? I did nothing to achieve this there. The dynamic description meta tag gives the description, and there is also a keyword meta tag on single pages. Maybe the SEO plugin is the problem. Check that you have the description meta tag.

Posted 5 months ago #
malady
Member

Im sorry I meant OP as original poster meaning illusio. Where xactly is the dynamic description meta tag set at in the theme? I added the SEO plugin in a effort to make the site description show in google. It does not with or without the plugin.

Posted 5 months ago #
admin
vfxdude

the dynamic description is on by default. there is a theme setting to disable it called "Disable meta tags". It's added on the blog frontpage and single post view.

Posted 5 months ago #
malady
Member

Ok well.. no see ur not understanding what Im meaning then.. disable meta tags is not checked in my theme settings but if you search quddus philippe in google there is nothing but the site name and url in google. There is no description. So if its on by default where exactly is the description input at in the theme.. as the tagline does nothing, and there is no other such place to enter such information.

Posted 4 months ago #
rollinhand
Member

Try to "Disable meta tags" under theme settings.

This is your sites current description which won't show up for some reason.
<meta name="description" content=""WE LIVE OFF THE RECORD."" />

If you disable meta tags your "All in One SEO Pack" meta description should show up in google.
<meta name="description" content="The official site by Quddus. Featuring new music, exclusive interviews, concert footage and comedy." />

Posted 4 months ago #
admin
vfxdude

I'm all for using a SEO plugin, but I would like to find the reason for the dynamic meta not working (btw it should not me double quotes there). Think it's strange, since it's working for me. btw the dynamic meta is only for the blog frontpage and posts, and not pages, so if the description is missing for pages, that's the reason.

Posted 4 months ago #
malady
Member

Its coming up as it should on pages just not on the blog front page. I disabled the meta tags in the theme settings so waiting to see if google picks it up with the all in one seo pack.

Posted 4 months ago #
malady
Member

nope i did that and it actually dropped down the page in google and still no description

Posted 4 months ago #
admin
vfxdude

check that you have description meta tags in the header code.

Posted 4 months ago #

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