Thanks for the quick response @Yigit

That code sounds fantastic and would also love to be able to use it myself. What sort of link do you require Basilis to get a hold of the code?

@moderngravity and @DavyE

Hey guys,

I know I’m a bit late to the party with replying but I stumbled across your thread while looking for something else.

Enfold is a wonderful and beautifully written theme with amazingly clean code. I’ve also spent ages barking up this SEO tree and wasted hours browsing this forum trying to fix things I thought needed fixing, in hope that once my little website was complete it would rank one with Google when people searched for it.

Now I am no coder or SEO guru but one thing I have noticed (other than moderators here being very short when it comes to SEO questions) is forget SEO . Forget worrying about having Htags correctly arranged as sites such as OnPage.Org tell you. Don’t worry about validator.w3.org telling you your site is missing [/p] here and there or have other errors.

Focus on content people want to read, focus on social signals to and from your site, worry about your click through rate and how much time people spend on your site. Most importantly worry about user experience and data highlighting.

Now you most likely think I’m talking a load of crap about now but here in The Netherlands (home to Yoast) there are two very popular and loved by Google websites.

emerce.nl and The Next Web (Google Partner).

Emerce have on their front page 2,326 words within H1 tags and 197 within H2 tags. Their site structure and naming of pages goes against anything you read or is suggested by Yoast yet this page ranks extremely highly in every aspect with Google. If you run their website through the
validator.w3.org make sure you’ve a cup of tea ready to read the results!

As I said, I’m no expert but when I start looking at companies who are getting things right with Google its seems it’s because their doing a lot of things wrong. Let’s face it, if your worrying about SEO it’s because your worrying about ranking in search engines and as Google is the only real search engine to worry about, unless you live outside of Europe and the US. Just my 2 cents but focus on your User Experience results from these “testing sites”

This will help you get your site a little faster and easy enough to follow: https://gtmetrix.com/wordpress-optimization-guide.html

Should help explain what @Rikard means

Northern Neck Homes INC is an award winning home building company located in Virginia. We’re an experienced team of residential home builder professionals serving… is what it actually reads

If you use Google Chrome browser then head here: https://moz.com/tools/seo-toolbar It’s really easy to use and shows you live information about your page. There are also https://my.onpage.org that with a free account can tell you loads.

Yoast does work, it just reports that it can see certain things within the theme at the moment. Such as your copy score & H tags etc. As long you know your using the correct H tags where you should, it works just fine. Use the free options for http://www.onpage.org and you’ll see once your page is published everything is just fine.

Hope you dont mind me answering your question but I’ve been following this Yoast problem for a while now. They are working on a fix and I understand its just a matter of patience on our part.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 10 months ago by Paul.

Absolutely in love this theme after having wasted my time trying out a few others. Not only the theme but the support behind it is amazing! Slowly managing to get my site live. The more I use it, the happier I am.

Thanks for the great theme guys, cant wait to see where you take it in 2016!

http://www.pauljames.nl

• This reply was modified 8 years, 10 months ago by Paul.