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Hi Basilis
Thank you for taking this to Kreisi
I have already talked to Yoast and they have said that it’s you who needs to make it work with Yoast SEO – they won’t do it their end despite me asking them to support over 100,000 users.
Over to you guys please. We need this.
Regards
EdHi Rikard
how does search engines not crawling your content relate to our theme?
You are selling an SEO-friendly theme that won’t let Yoast SEO crawl the vast majority of images and collect that data into a sitemap (only inline images in text and featured images). If a sitemap cannot be produced properly then Google will struggle to index images and I can prove that.
So ultimately your SEO-friendly theme isn’t so friendly because although Google can see image URL’s it probably won’t index them correctly. Again, I can prove that over the last two years of trials.
I’d have thought that if you’re selling a theme that won’t allow a sitemap to be correctly produced, by the biggest plugin on WordPress, that you’d kinda want to fix that?
It’s a shame the ALB won’t let Yoast SEO crawl images – despite the fact that Yoast make the data and hooks available to developers – I’m sure your customers (and developers) that buy your theme would benefit from you telling them all their content will get put into Yoast’s sitemap and therefore stand a much better chance at being indexed.
We all need our images and content indexed on search engines don’t we? That’s how the internet works right? But your theme blocks Yoast from collecting accurate data to be able to tell Google what’s in a page. Just because code can be parsed, rendered and crawled does not guarantee it will be indexed; that’s why we have sitemaps.
Google’s own best practices suggest using a sitemap to tell the spiders about the content and structure of a website. Now why would they recommend that do you think?
Can you see my point Rikard? Seriously, for the love of God, please get Kreisi to consider this – it could make a huge difference to everyone, not just those of us who work in a visual medium.
Kind regards
EdIncorrect.
Google will NOT automatically find your images and add them to its index.
I have been trying for over two years to get Kreisi to add functionality for images to be crawled by YOAST SEO and still nothing gets done.I can prove that by NOT having an accurate sitemap with an accurate number of actual images DOES harm the amount of images crawled and indexed.
Why on earth won’t Kreisi do something about this?
It’s fundamental to users of the theme. I have to run a modified version of Udinra’s Image Sitemap to catalogue all my images. Now, I have 4600 of them on my site and have 4000 indexed. Pretty good.
Before when I used Yoast i could only ever get around 450 indexed no matter what I tried – and I’ve been doing this a long time now.Honestly guys, 116,000 sales and how many users will have Yoast SEO? This is basic and needs doing but no-one will listen to the dozens of threads talking about this.
Such a shame guys, especially when I can prove that images will NOT get indexed without an accurate sitemap.
Regards
EdI appreciate all your help Mike.
I now find the problem being that I also use Oswald for all the headers and titles etc.
Essentially the theme is using these two fonts in the Options which is great for all the page styling – and that’s how i want to keep it.
However, now I have added the CSS and the code you kindly gave me I only have Oswald or Lato and not both. Additionally there is no weighting for things like Special Headings which are different when i use the theme options rather than putting in my own CSS.Is there any way the theme can simply be told to replace the source of the fonts from Google API’s to my CDN? The way this is right now is stripping away all the styling…. I am struggling I admit… Sorry Mike – I am very grateful for your help
Best
EdThanks Mike
Sorry to be a dummy but that is a little over my technical prowess!
I have some CSS but I do not know where to put it or even if it will work.
I have a fonts folder in the root directory and have this (an example for Lato font) as the base CSS with CDN location but I do not know how to tell the theme to go there for fonts instead of calling the Google servers.The Lato example CSS:
/* lato-300 - latin */ @font-face { font-family: 'Lato'; font-style: normal; font-weight: 300; src: url('https://cdn.swarez.co.uk/fonts/lato-v11-latin-300.eot'); /* IE9 Compat Modes */ src: local('Lato Light'), local('Lato-Light'), url('https://cdn.swarez.co.uk/fonts/lato-v11-latin-300.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), /* IE6-IE8 */ url('https://cdn.swarez.co.uk/fonts/lato-v11-latin-300.woff2') format('woff2'), /* Super Modern Browsers */ url('https://cdn.swarez.co.uk/fonts/lato-v11-latin-300.woff') format('woff'), /* Modern Browsers */ url('https://cdn.swarez.co.uk/fonts/lato-v11-latin-300.ttf') format('truetype'), /* Safari, Android, iOS */ url('https://cdn.swarez.co.uk/fonts/lato-v11-latin-300.svg#Lato') format('svg'); /* Legacy iOS */ }Any help is appreciated.
Regards
EdHi Ismael
I have looked at an alternative solution now as I needed to resolve things.Thank you for the reply.
There is an issue with the Twitter share button though – it shares the query string for the post not the URL permalink; I’ll open a new thread for that.
Thanks for your time
Regards
EdHi Andy
Your code is the closet we have to this working; however I have a very odd effect on my products – hovering doesn’t allow you to select anything unless you literally have your mouse in the center of the icons (I have modded mine a little for styling only).
Any help please? I am desperate to resolve this.
Thanks
EdSee here: https://www.swarez.co.uk/shop/metal-sculpture/when-the-wind-blows-test/
Hey Yigit
It works! You’re a genius! Thank you :)
I noticed that Instagram is the only one of the top icons not changed…. Can you send me the code for that too please?
Thank you so much!!!!!!!!
Regards
EdHi Rikard
Thanks for the reply
Sure – its: https://www.swarez.co.uk
A typical page would be this one: https://www.swarez.co.uk/modern-art-paintings-for-sale/last-train-home/
At the bottom I have placed the social share buttons which is great. However I would simply like to reverse the colours so that they show the hover colour as standard then hover to white on mouse-over (and I need to centre the text please).By the way on iOS devices you have to tap a button twice to get it to perform the function – can that be changed? No bother if not.
Many thanks
EdThanks Andy
Not the solution really?
Are you saying that the only way to do this is to modify every reference to the font locations in every style sheet file with your relevant CDN location?
Thanks
EdThanks @zeilenschreiber – I had the same issue. Will update later. Thanks for getting this sorted with the team at WP Rocket.
EdSo what happens to 3.6 then? Do we install again as fresh?
I have rolled back to 3.5.4.
Anyone tried 3.6 as a fresh install?Hi Rikard
Thank you for responding.I have over 4000 images on my site. Before swapping to Enfold I had 3700 indexed and searchable by Google. These were included in my sitemaps.
Since the theme swap I now have 400. And the change was almost instant. I understand about alt tags, context and the ways Google has to return image results – if anything I have made continual improvements on that.
I understand about about how Google crawls native WP images and that they do so from fully rendered code (you can see this through the ‘Fetch’ tools in Google Search Console) but the bottom line for me is that I have a massive drop in indexed images and there is no other reason for it than a theme swap and the inability to collect data to submit to a sitemap. Google doesn’t read shortcodes – I know that already – it reads fully parsed code. It should crawl all WP images but it doesn’t. They won’t admit this but then who knows how the algorithms work? All I have is a significant problem an done that points towards the cause I am talking about.
https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2012/04/1000-words-about-images.html – from their own blog they recommend an image sitemap.
I know you guys won’t do anything about it and talking is fine but at the end of the day (and having spent 5 years in the industry) I have exhausted all other possible explanations for the terrible drop in indexed images.
Would you ‘ignore’ this if it was you? I am an artist – visual searches are fundamental to my business and I have been struggling for a long time with this – now it’s getting silly. Why do you not feel it necessary to make this change?
Regards
EdHi all
I too have been trying to get you guys to add the Yoast hook to the theme. Yoast have provided information on their Knowledge Base for developers to integrate their API so that ALL images can be indexed with the Yoast Sitemap.
Let me assure everyone that this DOES make a difference to have them in the sitemap. Whether you use Masonry, Gallery or Image elements on your pages Yoast needs to be able to read them. Currently they cannot. It is good practice to put images into a sitemap.
If you are serious about marketing your theme as ‘SEO ready’ there are some very big holes you need to fill guys. This is just one of them. Please do something. I have lost 80% of my images from where I used to be since swapping to your theme. It is excellent by the way but there are some things that are very very frustrating for those people who know what they are doing.
This mentions how Yoast tried to parse shortcode content without success but may have information on the hook they left in for developers: https://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-content-analysis/
C’mon guys, this is important please…
Thanks
EdYou are really missing a massive opportunity to sell your theme – AMP is already providing some people with massive increases in traffic.
Some may go looking for another theme if you’re not going to do anything about – that would be a shame as Enfold is awesome. C’mon guys, can we get an official word please?
Thanks
EdTry this: http://searchengineland.com/google-amp-coming-rank-fast-238046
Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages project
AMP is already giving websites an edge – especially sites with posts (rather than pages). Some WP sites have already reported huge increases in traffic as they are the early winners because they have developed their front end to comply with Google’s framework.
Enfold could really use this as a positive selling point as no other developers I can find have anything done anything about it yet.
Can you please raise the urgency of this to Kriesi?
The plugin by WP is good but the theme needs work to comply – I tried it and images are not contained and no menus appear – but I’m sure there are a host of other integration issues that need addressing.
Just saying that this would be a massive leap forward for you if you got it done.Thanks
EdHi Josue
AMP is already giving websites an edge – especially sites with posts (rather than pages).
Enfold could really use this as a positive selling point as no other developers I can find have anything done anything about it yet.
Can you please raise the urgency of this to Kriesi?
The plugin by WP is good but the theme needs work to comply – I tried it and images are not contained and no menus appear – but I’m sure there are a host of other integration issues that need addressing.
Just saying that this would be a massive leap forward for you if you got it done.Thanks
EdHi Yigit
That doesn’t fix the problem – it still exists.
I have had to remove all masonry galleries to avoid the issue.
Just so you know
Regards
EdOK thanks Yigit; I have amended the minimum gap a little so i will see how that goes..
Thank you very much for your help.
Regards
EdHi Yigit
Thankyou – that does cure most of the issue but I’m afraid that’s made the menu way too long!!!! This was the issue with using long separators – now the iPad (where 70% of my visitors are) shows the menu overlapping. I cannot have that.
I have sized the menu exactly to fit Landscape on an iPad and it look great – whilst I appreciate you closing the gap on the menu it has now caused another problem
If it’s a problem my friend then let’s leave it the way it was and I’ll live with it for now.Thanks
Ed
