pmorettini
Forum Replies Created
-
Michael,
I appreciate your reply and attempt to answer my several questions.
Unfortunately, my apologies, but after reading your answers I’m more confused about the plug-in’s functionality and best practices for its use than before you responded.
First, just to let you know that while I don’t consider myself an SEO expert, I am also far from a newbie. I’ve been doing this for a while, and have been a Yoast user and a regular reader of the Yoast newsletter for quite some time (I have previously read all the articles that you reference).
I understand the diciness of changing the URL structure form my blog, so let’s forget about that aspect.
The thing I’d like to get clear answers on is the Post date(s), both in how the plugin works as well as recommended best SEO practices:
You wrote:
Yes, the default settings in ‘what to copy’ don’t include the ‘date’ and ‘slug’ elements, however, this should reflect in the clone feature, but not in the rewrite & republish feature. When you use the ‘rewrite & republish’ feature, it should just republish it under the same slug/URL and keep the same published date.When I first read this, I was very confused. In the Plugin’s setup page: Duplicate Post Options/”What to Copy” Tab, the Date, Status and Slug boxes are all unchecked by default. After looking at it again and considering what you wrote, I’m now assuming the following:
1) Those changeable Settings apply only to the CLONE option of the plugin AND
2) The REWRITE AND REPUBLISH option doesn’t essentially leave those 3 boxes unchecked and indeed you can’t actually change any of these settings for the REWRITE AND REPUBLISH version of the plugin.Am I correct in my understanding? If I am, none of this is obvious in the plugin’s settings and you might want to add some text to explain it.
Next, you wrote “However, when you make any updates to that article (not using the rewrite & republish feature), it should update the ‘modified date’ which is separate from the ‘published date’.”
Does this mean:
1) When I first use the REWRITE AND REPUBLISH feature, this does not by itself change the “date modified” date? The way I read your response, I would first need to rewrite and republish, then after that, do another “normal” update to the article, to get a changed “date modified” date?
2) I was actually not aware that there was a specific “date modified” field in WordPress. Neither the date modified or the date published explicitly are visible in my Blog posts (although the month/year are embedded in the URL, as discussed before); I assume I could change that in WordPress to make those two dates visible -is that correct?
3) Is a newer “date modified” considered to be a positive from an SEO perspective?
4) If a newer “date modified” is an SEO positive, does “date modified” need to be explicitly visible in the Blog post, or is it always available in the metadata and readable by the search engines regardless of whether or not it is visible to the reader?
5) From an SEO perspective, do the search engines favor a) a brand new article (change the published date) or b) a “more seasoned” article with a newer “date modified” and an older original “date published”?Sorry to expand my questions with more questions! I’m trying to make sure that I do things as well as possible as I undertake re-writing a large number of posts on my website. Your assistance is greatly appreciated.
Phil
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: RSS Feed IssueThanks for trying to help me. Unfortunately, I’m not getting very far. I’ve also posted my question in the Google/Feedburner forum, but no one has answered.
It’s clear that something from within WordPress is changing my default RRS feed URL, but I can’t figure out where. This is from my page source:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="PJM Consulting » Feed" href="https://feeds.feedburner.com/MorettiniOnhighTechManagement" /I certainly don’t remember doing using any plugin to do this are doing it in any manner, and there would be no reason to do it to use feedburner. All you have to do in feedburner is enter the Original feed URL in the feedburner setup and it redirects it to a feedburner feed. So there is no reason to change the feed in WordPress.
I sure don’t remember doing anything but what I did in the Feedburner console. I’ve looked through all of my plugins and the HT.access file but don’t see anything that is changing it. Any other ideas? I’d be quite happy to to revert to the default feed URL at this point. I’ve already spent hours on this.
- This reply was modified 6 years ago by Jan Dembowski.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: RSS Feed IssueI don’t think so.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: RSS Feed IssueNot yet, but shouldn’t [ redundant link removed ] be my native feed? It is shown as my origin feed in my feedburner user panel. I would expect that URL to direct me to my native feed. That shouldn’t have anything to do with feedburner, imo. Comment?
- This reply was modified 6 years ago by Jan Dembowski.
My homepage doesn’t show up as a page. I believe it’s a function of how my theme works.
Nastia,
Thanks for your reply. The problem is that when I try set it up the way that you suggest, “Home” doesn’t show up in the list of available pages to choose. That’s why I was trying to do it another way.
Phil
Hopefully one last question. The only way I could figure to do a “Home-Page-Only” popup was to use the “specific URL” condition. Do I also need to set up a condition to NOT WORK on other pages and/or posts, or just this condition by itself?
Thanks.
On the second question, I have even changed the visibility from exit intent to SCROLL 80% on POSTS only. It still is showing up on pages.
Thanks, I should have thought of that. I can get it to show up – sometimes. But even clearing browser and Cloudflare caches and using the Firefox and Chrome private browsing windows I can’t get it to appear in every instance that I think it should. So I’m not positive that it’s really working correctly.
I have a second, related question.
I created a second pop up to appear on my Posts only, NOT PAGES. It’s set up to trigger with exit intent. I am assuming that exit intent is on leaving my domain, not the specific post page. Is that incorrect? But even if it is when leaving a page, when I exit a post and go to another internal page the pop up will appear on the page. I really don’t want to show the pop up as long as they aren’t intending to leave the Pjmconsult.com site overall. Can I do this?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Redirection for Contact Form 7] Redirection to Thank You Page not workingSorry to bother you, thanks for your help.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Redirection for Contact Form 7] Redirection to Thank You Page not workingDid you look at the Contact 7 plugin settings?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Redirection for Contact Form 7] Redirection to Thank You Page not workingYes, that is the form. Where is it being generated then? There is only one form plugin on that site (contact 7), and when you look in the Contact 7 settings it sure looks like it’s generating that form. I don’t know where else it would be coming from.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Redirection for Contact Form 7] Redirection to Thank You Page not workingOk, I sent them to you. Please confirm receipt.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Redirection for Contact Form 7] Redirection to Thank You Page not workingHere it is: