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On the 21st of November 2024, Google retired Sitelinks Search Box from SERPs. Although SearchAction is part of the schema.org standard, it was essentially a Google-specific enhancement.
Get your Logo and Organization schema back after a Yoast update.
Yoast 11 introduced schema data added by default. If your site already has schema added through your theme then this may break.
If you were previously stripping Yoast HTML comments on your website then there is a good chance that updating to v11.0 will show the new schema data at the top of your website.
Are you continually telling people to optimise their image filenames before uploading them to a website? Do staff members keep assuring you that they will optimise their filenames in the future whilst having no intention of doing so? Have they said “I’ll go back and do it later” rather than taking 2 seconds to do
If you have a website using WooCommerce and have registered it with the new version of Google Search Console, it's likely that you will get an email notification about 'index coverage' issues for the /my-account/ page.
In this article, we are going to add a new field to the article editor screen and use the content of the field to output a canonical link in the head of the page on the article view. At some point, Joomla’s automatically added canonical links were removed as they didn’t work correctly, so this
For reasons detailed in an earlier post about why Joomla canonical urls are not implemented correctly it may be that you want to remove them. That’s pretty easy by hacking the core, but safer to unset the tag in your template so the changes don’t get wiped out on an upgrade.
Ideally I like to keep all urls in lowercase, but there are a few things that can lead to your site being indexed with a mixture of upper and lower case characters, which in turn can lead to problems with search engines. How can this happen? Well, for me it was playing around with Joomla’s
Joomla 3 introduced a new feature of canonical url links. There is no way to turn it off in settings, which wouldn’t be a problem if it worked correctly, but unfortunately it doesn’t. It has been plagued by problems since it was introduced and has led to some sites taking a massive hit on visitor
For a while now in Google webmaster tools there has been an option under the ‘optimization’ tab called ‘Data Highlighter’. This is their new attempt at an alternative to structured data (or another way to add it without changing the structure of your pages). It is essentially a wizard interface to get Google to understand
I wrote about this a while ago in my Joomla microdata article. It has struck me since that it was complete overkill to add authorship in that way and can be done without any code changes at all, just using the standard contacts component. The reasoning is, that you don’t have to link each article
Adobe recently released their ‘blank font’. It is essentially a font which contains no glyphs and is basically a css hack to stop the flash of unformatted text when using webfonts. I wrote a long time ago about how to cache the font files when using @fontface. That method can be used in conjunction with this
Google has been using microdata for quite a while now and adding it to your website can help with clickthrough rates from search engine results. The most obvious is Google’s own authorship markup (not strictly microdata per se) where linking to your Google+ profile adds your profile image to pages in search results, but there
Last month (April 2013) Twitter announced the introduction of a new set of meta tags known as ‘Twitter Cards’. Adding these tags to your site allows extra information such as an image and description to be attached to any tweet which contains a url of a page on your website. You can read the twitter
There are hundreds of plugins, modules and components which add Facebook opengraph tags to your articles, but is it really necessary to add an extension for the sake of a couple of meta tags. There was a time when Facebook ignored your standard meta tags and insisted that you add a specific opengraph tags for things like page title
I was recently asked a couple of times about international SEO and targeting websites with similar content at the correct people without just serving up a duplicate site. The most obvious example of this is a .com website which is meant for American audiences and .co.uk which is meant for England, but it could also be
Ok, so I moved my site. I used to have a domain called serach-friendly-web-design.com, I moved all that stuff to here because I thought that the information I gave was benifical to other people and I should retain the pages. So basically, if anyone goes to an old page they will get to see what
At first a content delivery network seems like a great idea, but is it possible that it can actually be detrimental to your sites speed? Lets find out.
The reference field is not something that is new in Joomla 1.6 and up. Joomla 1.5 had a ‘Key Reference’ field in the articles advanced parameters tab. What is different is where the field is now found and the way the data entered is utilised. In Joomla 1.5 the content of the key reference field
So Joomla 3 has been around for a while now and seems stable enough that you can use it for production sites without having to check up on it everyday to see if anything new has broken. And with a new site comes a new template. As always, I wanted it to be fast loading,
To redirect all pages from http://www.olddomain.com to http://www.newdomain.com in the domain root of your old domain create a .htaccess file and paste the following code, changing the domain name:
Add MIME type and Expires Header to Favicon Add these lines to your .htaccess file to speed up favicon loading, as specified by the Yahoo Yslow documentation.
Google, Bing, Yahoo and all search engines are instructed not to index photos from a default installation of Joomla.With the advent of blended search results, why would you not want your images to be indexed and shown alongside your site in Search Engine Result Pages (SERPS)?
Although not on the official page speed site, Google have actually released a version of pagespeed that runs on Firefox 4. Why it’s not on the site I have no idea, I would imagine it would have something to do with pushing developers towards chrome. Anyway, the link is here:
I’ve been working for a search engine optomization company for many years now. I still see the whole process offered by many companies as a little bit shady. At the end of the day, nobody can make a search engine do what ever they want. You can’t pay google to move you up higher in
I only realised a few days ago as I looked into someone elses site that the standard url on an xmap sitemap for the homepage is /home Both this and the standard / urls exist and it can lead to problems when getting indexed. Here’s how to sort it out…
I’ve just uploaded a joomla 1.5 module to display a share to diaspora button. The module automatically takes the url of the page, the page title and the introtext and sends it to the users diaspora stream and shares it with their frineds. I added a parameter to limit the number of chars sent, as
Enable Leverage browser caching for Joomla websites If you use firebug with either the pagespeed or Yslow plugin, you’ll be familiar with the persistantly red, top warning of ‘Leverage browser caching’ (‘Add Expires Headers’ with Yslow) This can be quite simple to fix by adding the following lines at the bottom of your .htaccess file.
Set Expires Headers in .htaccess to speed up page load times If you use the firebug pagespeed addon or yslow you will be used to seeing the warning ‘Add Expires Headers’ This can be quite simple to fix by adding the following lines at the bottom of your .htaccess file.
@fontface is a great tool for giving your site an individual look, the down-side is that on a standard site, the font is downloaded on each page view. As the font can take a little time to download, the page text is loaded first and then the font is replaced once it has finished downloading
Xmap is a great automatic sitemap generator for the joomla content management system. It produces HTML (For your users) XML (for search engines) and news (Please fill me in!) The URL’s to these sitemaps however are not so search engine friendly.
Joomla .htaccess and SEO for Dummies The Joomla content management system provides a powerful, yet simple way for anyone to design a website. However, out of the box, a standard site is not set up with search engine optomisation (SEO) in mind. There are several simple rules that should be implimented into every Joomla
Joomla slows down page loading times by loading the full uncompressed Mootools 1.1 Javascript library. Here’s an easy way to speed it up…