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I have just put together my new website and have carefully added the content with SEO in mind. After going live with the site on February 2, 2014 I ran some reports on my site and have come up with many errors. Firstly, there is a lot of image errors as far as title tags are concerned. By default it seems to add the alt tags with our issue. The main problem I see is that on the single blog post at the bottom it adds the “You might also like” linking additional blog posts a visitor may be interested in with a small thumbnail. That thumbnail does not actually post the title tag as shown in these two screen shots. http://puu.sh/6IOe5/c4399309e7.jpg and http://puu.sh/6IOgN/d93c348341.png. These images in fact do have both tags when entered into wordpress. How can I add the code to make this happen? I looked at the single.php and found where it calls the includes/related-posts.php and I am really unsure of the code to add to make it show the title.
On another note, it seems that the theme is adding additional chars to the url such as shown in this image http://puu.sh/6IOrm/4490199fad.png as you can see for example the link http://www.lakeeriewebdesign.com/privacy-policy/?s= does not exist and causes a 404. I did not add these links and not sure where in the theme they are coming from. My only thought would be the small arrows on the right and left of the blog post when hovered shows the next or previous post with a small image. How can this be resolved?
Overall I love the theme and I am pretty sure I can make it work. From an SEO stand point there is a lot of work that needs to be done. I look forward to your comments and suggestions.
Hey TJ!
1) Thanks, we’ll add the alt/title attributes to the “You might also like” images with the next theme update.
2) the ?s= query parameter is probably added by the search link (loop icon) in the menu. Since 2.4 we added a rel=”nofollow” to the search link and the search engines should not follow it. However if the spider/crawler ignores the rel value and follows the link it will provoke a 404 error. You can remove the search icon if you fear that it affects your ranking (Enfold > Theme options) however I’m pretty sure it has no impacts at all because google and other search engines respect the nofollow attribute…
Cheers!
PeterDUDE! Lol, I just like the sound of that :)
Thanks for your response. Currently I have the “You might also like” disabled on my site and it did clear up a lot of the errors. I also added another plugin called SEO Friendly Images which basically injects the title tag into the image html output which is good because normally your title would have your focused keyword. Keep in mind and I am sure you are aware of this that any and all images should have an alt and title tag. This is just plain good SEO practice. I certainly am not a PHP developer but I can usually find my way around adjusting the code to my needs. This framework is very difficult for me unfortunately.I am also seeing some errors with link texts and given the information it looks like it would be the social media icons on the top.
http://puu.sh/6JXNi/3c63d639bf.png
Any suggestions for this?
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