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Thanks Joram and Thomas, for the advice. It made things much more clear!

I just got my first on-page SEO report, and only got report on 3 random keywords in my list of keywords.

Why don't I get a report on the other keywords? Is there a certain reason for why I get only those specific keywords?

Thanks in advance.

Right. Thanks for the advice again! I will definitely go for custom meta descriptions in the near future.

Cheers

Thanks askshopper!

Would having the same meta description through out the site (for a while) be a bad thing? Or could I have it like that for the time being?

I can't change them right now because of some issues with my developers atm.

Great, thanks Matt!

I'm wondering if it is possible to change the meta description of a page on your site at any time without it affecting rankings on google?

Is it only changing how my SERP looks? Or could bad things happen to changing your meta description?

Appreciate all opinions on this one, thank you guys!

That did the trick! Thanks for the support.

Have a great weekend.

Awesome, thanks Marcus!

Just one last thing, where can I in an easy way see what my title and meta description/title is? To see if it works.

In the plugin this code is put in the title template box: %%sitename%% %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitedesc%%

Maybe this is the reason why title and tag line/meta description is put as title? The "%%sitedesc%%" should perhaps be put in the Meta description template beneath?

I tried disabling, and what I got now was an empty title. What does that tell me?

That's the problem, part of the title should be in the meta description (as it is put under "tag line" in wordpress settings > general.

Put the tagline is shown right after the title in the title.

Marcus,

First of all, thanks for the reply!

I will try to disable the plugin and see what happens.

Where do need a link? Here is to the blog in question blogg.loveday.se (don't know if it is of any use though, as it is in swedish).

Hey guys,

I'm having some issues with my wordpress blog, and I believe SEO plugin by Yoast could be the one causing it.

I have set a title for my wordpress blog, and a tagline. This was set in dashboard > settings > general

Under "titles and metas" > home in the plugin it says, title: %%sitename%% %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitedesc%%, and meta description is blank.

The reports on seomoz says my title is title+meta description - making it to long (to many characters).

What could be the issue here?

Thanks in advance!

Cool! Thanks Chris, I am following the guide you linked. Looks like I will be able to manage the move.

I will have you personally responsible if things get messed up

Yes, exactly. Moving it, including everything from plugins to blog posts - and without a lot of errors such as links to the old domain.

Would you suggest I find out how to do it rather than taking the route I described in the question? Do you have any guide that you suggest I follow?

Thanks

I am abou to change my company blog from a subdomain (blog.mydomain.com) to a subfolder (mydomain.com/blog), from suggestions from this awesome community!

Not only that though, because the current blog is on another server than the main site I have to move my blog between servers as well.

This will be a big hassle for me, and means a big risk for errors as I don't have a clue what I am doing on the development part. Hint: I'm no developer.

My blog is fairly new, having posted 18 blog posts so far. There is no major linking to or from the blog as it has been basically no activity on the blog.

It has been fairly good optimized for SEO, with custom plugin settings for Wordpress SEO plugin and similar. Also followed advice from Rand regarding wordpress SEO.

So I guess my question is:

Would it be a big loss for me to just start over with a new blog on the subfolder domain? And move content over from the old blog manually (and then deleting the old one).

Or would It be plain stupid taking that route?

Thankfull for all help I can get!

Great. Thank you!

Peter,

Thanks for the reply. I tried deleting the question when I saw that it was an issue with Open Site explorer (read the updated question above), but as seomoz wouldn't let me (it only returned 404-page every time, I used the same question to type a new one.

Your answer was of great help anyways. But would be great if you could help me with the new one.

I was doing a search on Open Site Explorer, comparing my site with competitors in the field.

When looking under the Page Specific Metrics tab I first got the results that I had no internal links whatsoever, and 8 external links in total.

I had a page authority of 34, and so on.

Then I saw it suggested that my domain was redirecting to www.mydomain.com/ (a slash at the end), even though this is wrong. But I clicked the "see this url instead" and now the results changed a lot.

It now shows that I have 72 internal links, and 6 external links. And also a lower page authority of 28.

Now you might say it is because I changed the url to the one with a slash, but I changed back to the one without a slash (and now I don't get the message about the redirect).

What's up with open site explorer? What results should I trust?

Alright.

But, looked at a WBF with Rand and he said something like: "Use targeted keywords in the url string . This adds relevancy for rankings, assists searchers/users identifying the page content/topic when viewing url, provides value when used as the anchor text/referral link."

So what he is saying here is that I should have keywords in my url for sub pages when possible? And not the home page.

Couldn't find the answer to my question anywhere so I'll give it a try here.

If you have a site called www.example.com, and then want to add a keyword to this site, like this: www.example.com/keyword

How do you add a keyword to your url like this? Without making the URL with the keyword your "main" URL, meaning you don't have to enter the keyworded URL to get to the homepage (www.example.com), and still rank better on the keyword put in the url.

I'm a bit confused on the subject, would love for someone to help me understand!

Thanks.