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Hi Jesse, I will keep you appraised. Thank you for your support. Regards, Si

In my opinion, no problem. Wait for some other expert advices.

Thx you Zeph and Jesse for your answers. So yes I m gonna use that solution and of course the Alt  text in the correct language. Have a good weekend !

Hi, Old thread, but wondering if you're able to generate an XML sitemap through Yoast with your Avada theme. There's an open thread on the Theme Fusion forum about the Yoast sitemap returning a 404 error. Just tried and I'm getting the same thing. Wondering if you came up with a workaround. Thanks

Big thank you

If you have a landing page other than your homepage ranking for a term for which most of the competitors' results are their homepages, then I'd say your page is quite well zeroed in. Be sure to analyze and document specifically what you're doing on that page before making changes so you can go back to it if necessary.  At this point, it's probably authority that's that's going to push you higher in the rankings.  Even one or two links to that landing page from good resources will pay high dividends for you.

Ugh... not the answer I was looking for.  I've removed all the things that would tell google that there is video on the page.  I just wasn't sure if there was anything else I could do. Thanks!

I find that many visitors do not use sidebar site navigation that much to reach the content they want. You may want to consider that web visitors searched for something first on Google and then probably start reading the page where the term appeared. If links for more information appear directly in the page content they are reading, they seem to like those links rather than prefer navigating the site’s content via the main menu bar or sidebar navigation. Viewers really are driven by the topic that interested them in the first place. Use tracking analytics to determine just what your pattern may be.

thank you so much Dennis!

This would be normal behavior for a brand new site--things will shuffle around for a good while and yes, even single-character difference in the URLs is enough differentiation.

I think it is for one reason people type it in when they type a link there used to it SO if there linking to you it will go right to the www. 200 code & not 301 if you pick www. But if its a long domain I like to drop the www. Use what you like I like using www. it's matter of choice Rember to 301 your domain All the best, Thomas

It's true that you can use almost all the separators you mentioned - though some sources suggest to avoid using underscores.   The thing to keep in mind is that overuse of separators is typically going to indicate that your title contains a number of terms that don't flow together in normal human spoken/read language - which could be interpreted as keyword stuffing.   Try to create titles that have your keywords but also are natural language. For example on my events site we use titles like this that successfully grade well for the keywords we target: Depeche Mode tickets in London at The O2 on TUE, Nov 19, 2013 — 7:30PM.  Certainly could've used more separators, but it wasn't necessary simply to avoid short words like "at" and "on".

Hi Thomas, If I could jump in here - I think the two levels of 301 redirects won't sacrifice much. A small amount of link equity is lost through a 301, so you'll be doubling that, which isn't ideal, but if you are indeed anticipating hosting the job board at three separate locations, there won't be much of a way around this. You could change the first level 301s (from the subdirectory) to skip the middle step and point right to the domain, and then 301 any pages on the subdirectory that built links to the domain, avoiding the multi-step 301s for the most part. Provided your directory structure and page titles don't change much along the way, it shouldn't be too difficult to get the 301 redirects done, even if they're folder-to-subdomain-to-external-domain. Best, Mike

Whatever they have could be bolstered by a true SEO campaign. Local resources and local networks sound like low authority links with little-to-no value. I sincerely doubt they will succeed with this approach and I can't for the life of me figure why they would care if someone else was building links for them. They do realize I could go out and build links for their site on my own right this second, right? It's not some sort of weird intrusive/sacred ground or anything.... Wish I knew their reasoning but in the end I'd be absolutely shocked and amazed if this campaign succeeded and if I were you I'd respectfully decline knowing I couldn't do anything to help them if I can't even create links as an SEO... ?! But good luck anyway!!

yes, robots.txt is the bad way, I will try to use canonical tag. Thanks for your help!

Hi Andrew, The answer often comes down to duplicate content and whether or not you choose to index these post types. If the posts are unique and valuable and you want to index them, it's generally good to include them in the sitemap. In general, most post types should are generally included in most sitemaps. On the other hand, if you have entire categories of post types that you've de-indexed, you may not want to include these. Further reading: http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/

Schema is always a good idea for everything. Far as I can tell.

thanks for this, i have put it under the menu but not sure if it looks silly or not. have replaced the intro which was in the middle of the column with the story of the day which i will change around four times a day. if i change this story four times a day instead of once a day would it help with google crawling my site more often. for some reason it is only according to cache visiting my site around every four days. i use to find that if we published an article it would be in google within 24 hours or less, a lot of the times less but now it is taking around four days since we done the upgrade

First, is this content dynamic? Depending on how the user progresses through these choices a search engine may not even see this information. Second, as long as those aren't the pages you are trying to rank I can't see them actually having that big of an impact (if any) on your overall SEO. There is a difference between having pages that have the same content, and having pages that are duplicate content. Rel canonical would be another way to save your skin, and making sure that the choices themselves are no-follow links (as long as there is some other method to get to the deeper pages). Personally for the sake of SEO and user experience (which is far more important) I'd talk to the company about creating a dynamic selection wizard that could be a popup and once the user makes all their choices brings them to the right HTML page. The HTML pages would be open, crawl-able, structured and sitemapped and the wizard would by a dynamic widget loaded in from a page that was robots disallowed. Helping both the human and spider experience - just my two cents! Best of luck!

Hi Anders, Thanks for that. Iain