Major Issues

  • bdazzled

    (@bdazzled)


    7 years, 12 months ago

    Having converted from Joomla CMS that was quite old to WordPress using a Themeforest them-Infinite design we spent a couple of months rebuilding and launching. We use SEMrush and Webmaster etc to monitor. Initially the 2,500 errors were a bit of work-but were done over the following week or so. What has happened since though is that week after week-more and more errors, warnings, notices continued to grow-mostly around duplicate meta tags, duplicate descriptions and low word/text to image ratios. The Plugins used were WProcket (recently found to be an issue) Permalinks Plugin (Yoast techs said is the issue) Imagify-to reduce the image size, and Yoast (Then Yoast Premium). Has been 3 months now and no matter what gets done to optimize the site-it just creates more duplicates and issues. And is now officially a major HeadF#ck when it all seems to be guesses.
    Anyone with a Uber sized brain out there who can suggest something different?

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • catacaustic

    (@catacaustic)

    7 years, 12 months ago

    How are the duplicate meta values getting in there in the first place? Are you using some automated content systems, or creating new content that’s the same as old stuff, or… soemthing else?

    And where are you seeing the errors? In your site, Webmaster Tools, other systmes?

    Thread Starter bdazzled

    (@bdazzled)

    7 years, 12 months ago

    We think may be due to custom permalinks plugin (according to Yoast) and the WP Rocket was dodgy. It seems that the old redirects etc continue to create new copies themselves all the time. We will turn off now and watch/review. We have been careful to make sure new content isn’t copied (everything through copyscape) but something going screwy with redirects. And want to understand how someone can select peer reviewed plugins if most are open source without review in a lot of cases (or reviewed by finds and family and given 5 stars!)
    Errors have shown in SEMrush-and in Webmaster tools-so cant blame SEMrush for being screwy

    catacaustic

    (@catacaustic)

    7 years, 12 months ago

    All of that sounds like a bad plugin or combination of plugins. There’s no tmuch that WordPress itself can do to get around that. The bet thing ot od is pretty much what you’re doing now, and talking to each vendor to work through the issues with their individual plugins.

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