Recent content by bathead

I have seen evidence of the correlation between a page ranking well for a keyword with low CTR which then drops in the rankings. But this is to do with the page itself - title, description 'accidentally' ranking for a keyword that is not directly related to that page content. Not so sure it is...

The first thing you want to do is to ensure all the on-site stuff is done navigation - menu, breadcrumbs page speed are only the required pages indexed in Google? unique product descriptions decent category descriptions canonical tags and on and on.... This is before link building and as...

@Abdul Wahhab Mokhtar how did this go? The campaigns i've done have usually had a honeymoon period, then conversions drop. I've always had trouble tracking the actual keyword that purchases, rather than the batch of keywords that get clicked which is easy. So if you are too broad there's no...

It's probably cost effective for them to do this to you because looking at the original application you are one of 43 domains being sued. You can't even hide behind private whois as the judge has approved ANY email to be the connection to the defendant and list the privacy emails for many in...

To remove date from post take a look at https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/remove-date-from-wordpress-posts/ Re the URL - are you saying the actual URL contains the category or that the Google snippet is displaying the breadcrumb - example.com > some category > some sub-category? There's nothing...

Not if you are trying to be friends with Google.

Apart from already mentioned there is a related posts plugin where you can use shortcode to place image/caption within the post. Worked for me.

Maybe robots needs to be ignored in settings. Otherwise test the non HHTPS URL in a clean browser and use Fiddler to sniff the header response.

Tip: Take a good look at the TTFB before cloudflare and once implemented ;)

Although in place have you manually checked? Depending on size of site use ScreamingFrog (start with http://www.example.com and crawl up to 500 URLs).

Have you redirected from HTTP to HTTPS? In htacess something like RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com [NC] RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [R,L] or RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule (.*)...

Google will decide what to use as the meta description. All you can do is to write an accurate and compelling meta description that reflects the page and hope that it is used. The problem may iron out once Google has indexed all your pages. You may want to use the site: operator and see what...

They wont be very valuable for you from an SEO point of view but maybe for referral traffic. But make sure you only use your brand or naked URL as the anchor text.

Yoast is only a guide and works with an exact match keyword, it will always give a negative report like you suggest. The way you are using the keyword is not wrong, although I always try to optimise the title for my keyword phrase.

It depends what its link profile/history is like.