These are sadly not to be trusted. I have seen gurus saying it, and I have seen it with my own articles. These tools say its copyrighted, while I wrote them myself.

Perhaps they cited you as the source. Did you check, they provide the links where info was found.

Ive compared this to Grammarly's plagiarism checker and found them both to be very fairly accurate.

Rudy

I researched this in Siteliner from Brian Dean's Backlinko article, and I checked for HTTP and HTTPS, and there were no critical issues. Siteliner lists the duplicate content where it is from and how many percentages it means the pages need to be either deleted, redirected, or used a canonical tag to one article, so Diane is right about the content being within my website. I'm still researching this (more to investigate, as you stated) . I did find my content was the same as someone else, and they listed that site, so I have to do a lot of fixes to do here.

Your content was exactly the same as on someone elses website? That sounds like this person just copie pasted yours onto his, bo?

I'm investigating and still trying to figure it out. Siteliner helps to identify and, according to Brain Dean at (formerly BackLinko), now owned by SemRush, discusses duplicate content and how to fix it. I need to find out what this means and how to go about solving this. It's going to take me some time.

Good to know 👍🏼

I'm worried about your class where you take bulletpoints from the competitor and have AI rewrite it though. I had the same idea before I saw your class to do it that way, and the articles looked very simular to the ones from the competition. Wouldnt google find it suspicous when it is exactly the same bulletpoints as from another article, even though it is rephrased?
When you write something naturely, there is never the same things that you write about entirely, but rather a combo of other information on websites, things that you already know as an expert, and the 'people also ask' section. At least I do. And this still takes time.

So in my class what I did wasn’t to take bullet points from another article and rephrase them, I had GPT summarize two other articles top to bottom. I chose personally to list those summaries as bullet points and I instructed the AI to include those points throughout the new article. So there’s no copying of lists here. 😎👍🏼

It’s no different than if you and I both wrote a report on Abraham Lincoln’s life, both our reports will be different while still touching on the exact same major points. And remember, we’re creating these articles to deliver value to our audience, thats our goal.

The great part is that when we feed any info into the article designer it uses that to create the outline which you can further tweak, and then when the full article is created you further tweak and polish from there to make it your own. 💯

I’ll be doing that in the next class on Wednesday. It’s a quick process and allows you to get so much more out of your writing :)

Let me research that. Its doubtful how can it be two versions http and https i need to look closely. Thanks for the tip.

Thats a great point, Diane. I was going through my posts before writing a new one, and found a couple of similar urls.

Fortunately and unfortunately, neither had been indexed and I was able to make changes before they might have faced the same fate as Brenda's did.

Rudy

Abie,

Thank you so much for the link. I tried it out, and it didn't work. I figured out what the problem was right off the bat. Just as Kyle stated, it's a theme issue. I asked SiteSupport to set up a staging site for my domain so I could test out another theme. Sure enough, GP Premium didn't have the code, and it wouldn't accept the code for the missing author, nor would the plug-in work. The CreativeWork issue lies with GP Premium. I switched to the Kadence theme. I tested the URL on Google Rich Test results; the problem was solved because Kadence theme capabilities solved the missing author (no need for a plugin). Kadence is (out of the box done for your theme) ready for social media without the author's use of plugins, too. My speed went from 70 to 100 percent on mobile and 100 on desktop after switching to Kadence. Now all good problem solved. It's good to know that sometimes a theme has a missing code, and the best solution is to switch to a different theme. I switched my staging site back to my domain using the move feature. I just wanted to share how I solved this issue. Google now has it fixed in GSC!

Thank you for this explanation, Brenda :) MeepMeep.

Trish, no that doesnt help-it still doesnt tell me anything. I do not understand it at all. Is my site not indexed or indexed a canonical tag means Im not getting traffic and there is nothing there to fix it if I want it as a canonical tag. I dont want a canonical tag at all get it off. I dont know how to do that. Im going to delete and trash my site not worth hassling with this.

Hope the screen prints will help you...

If you prefer, simply Google search your prompt: "alternate page with proper canonical tag" (without the quotation marks, of course).

its beyond my understanding. I want that thing off of my site. so the only way to do this is to delete and start over. I went to YouTube I couldn't find the answer to that. when I checked my URL it says my site is not indexed its not in Google therefore no traffic so my website does not exist in Google's eyes at all.

All I can urge you to do is Google search your prompt and read over what others have stated.

The Google thread says it pretty clear... leastwise, I thought so. I have circled the relevant answer in the 2nd screen print.

Google IS frustrating to say the least. So, I can understand you're getting to feel that way... but if you really want to understand... that's your only option that I can see.

Trish, you're right. Sorry I got frustrated, yes, Google is very nerve-wracking.

I think I found the culprit. Instead of my URL being a home page, it removed a home page and set my home page as a blog, so it has two pages that are the same, which are
.com/home .... .com/blog it's showing my first blog post as my home page that wrong. I have to fix that. GRRR. My home page should be the blog roll, not the blog post. Weird, I have no idea how that happened.

Thanks, Trish for trying to help. I appreciate you trying. I went back to my site. I took a look at the HTML code. HTML code that I do understand! I took HTML a long time ago when the internet started back, I think in 1993 or so after I graduated from University in 90- three years later in Grad school, I had to learn HTML coding. I found the rel=canoncial code there, and that's the culprit. Now I have to go back and fix the HTML code to get it right so I can get it the blog post removed it's not a home page I have no idea why that happened. I think I need go back to my settings to fix it looks like something got switched.

That's okay, Brenda... I totally get your frustration with Google. I've come to use DuckDuckGo for my researching now... due to Google's refusal to include vital info in their SERPs.

I discovered this MONTHS ago with working with Excel. DuckDuckGo serves up resolutions easier and faster.

Wow, thanks for sharing that.

A great browser, I absolutely agree. And very fast.

Browser Jóhann?

If you are referring to my comment on DuckDuckGo... it's a search engine... like Google... only better search results when doing researching for tech support (well, most things, actually).

Sorry, wrong word, my mistake! I used it for a long time and still do from time to time. There was one thing that made me stop using it but it is only 2 days since I was recommended for a friend of mine.

Duck Go Go is a search engine but to use it you have to use the app I got the app today and tested it out. I found no significant difference between Google and Duck Duck Go. They looked the same to me. I removed the app. I use Safari mostly. But likeTrish explains it's probably better for her for technical things that Google doesnt put in their search engine so I will use that when I get stuck only for that purpose.

No need for an app! Just write it in the search bar (or in the URL) and click on the first link.
Then you are in and can start.
Just write it like this DuckGoGo

For me, at least, it is a huge difference. Plus, Google can´t track you, which is something you have a personal right to decide if they track or not!

But I absolutely (almost) hate Safari! Vivaldi was ok, but a long time since I checked it.

Oh good... because I do not want to mislead anyone. Thanks for confirming it as a boo-boo, Jóhann. Much appreciated.

I am an Apple user love Safari but to each its own, I downloaded the app on my MacBook easier for me that way no biggie

Hey Brenda, you use an app for a search engine? Are you using a mobile device, maybe?

If so... aaaaah... LOL, because I just open my browser on my desktop computer and start typing in DuckDuck... in my browser's address bark and poof... their URL appears below, easy for me to click to load.

Mobile devices are painful when you have to add app every time you want to do something, huh.

Hey Jóhann and Brenda... if you ever want to use a Google search WITHOUT being tracked... you can use: startpage.com :-D

Thank you, I did not know about it.

Duck should be free too but there are doubt about it.

It is just a principle, Google has broken many personal rules about the coocies (that is why you can now pay for not getting ads on Facebook, they believe it is a solution after lost cases about others "solutions" but i doubt that is right).

But I will check this out too.

Ah, I understand. The only people I know that praise Safari are Apple!

I promised me many, many years ago that never. ever buy Apple again :)

To each its own. I, too, say the same thing I vowed never to buy a PC again! Im Apple through and through!

Yes, it is a special group that only wants that :)
But the reason I don´t want it is I can´t use it in my sport! Where millions of people play.
I spent a lot of money to change it, but then I found it, the salespeople was just trying to change it on PC so...

Too, because I worked in a company where people could come with damaged computers to fix it. Seeing how it was inside made me harder in my opinion.

But what fits you is great! I learned my lesson! :)

Ok, that's understandable. Each person has their preferences.

Yes that is what I use. 700 x467 in Canva then got that yellow thing telling me to resize it to smaller and smaller like I stated. The problem is with mobile speed. It might fit perfectly but Google Core Vitals the image for LCP is bad its at 9.5 speed mobile 40 bad bad. Cant use WP Rocket due to WA server blacklisted. Its paid version no thanks anyway. My only solution is to remove feature image and not use any at all because LCP speed improved after removing feature image its at the top. Where is yours at the top or below the H1? Have you checked your mobile speed? I use third party plug in to help get the lazy loading and lossy image to work but not even that helps with mobile speed.

Ok, I have been thinking and experimenting!

I remembered that Partha and I had a long spell of discussions and testing, coming to the conclusion that GP Premium does not play nicely with WA hosting.

(Our opinion, we have no factual evidence of this).

We had it on 2 sites that continually failed Core Web Vitals.

So, we removed it and went back to the free version.

One of those sites is still hosted here, and that is the first screenshot.

The other site is hosted elsewhere, so, for the purposes of this, I added GP Premium back again, the Marketer option.

See second screenshot.

So, no problems with either of them.

BUT, we do use Imagify, which is not free.

Maybe that accounts for both results, I don't know.

And, just out of curiosity, I deliberately tried to add a huge image as the Featured Image on the GP Premium, and it didn't come up with the errors that you are experiencing.

It just published it in the size I uploaded.

(I note you mentioned to Lizzy that Jay uses the same GP Premium theme. If you mean his movie website, he does not host that here...)

I can't see the screenshots of this on my iPhone. I have to open my MacBook Pro. I was not talking about Jay’s ifilmthings. I know he hosts elsewhere with that and has three other writers on his team. I am referring to his WA niche affiliateresources site; that's the one he said GP Premium Marketer. I have this same problem with Kadence on my PPC site with the featured image. It is the same problem: it doesn't fit the container. It’s not the theme.

Maybe there's a big bug somewhere. I did remove all my plugins. I did the featured image with the same results; it does not fit the container, and LCP has a much worse speed. All third-party plugins for images do not work. Imagify is what Frank uses for his guitar niche, and it's not free, as you said. I am not going to pay for it.

I guess my solution is just no featured images for both sites. Period! I am tired of hassling with the LCP mobile speed. I'm not doing it anymore. Featured images stay off! I have the photo below the headline, and all other pictures in the post are fine. No yellow interference tells me it doesn't fit the container. It only does that with the featured image. That is the biggest problem I can't solve except by removing it. Stephen Thiam wrote his response. Do you understand what he's talking about? I don't at all.

i have the same with my africa site, pictures still look distored on mobile, while both are gp premium.
Two things are different: hosts (one wa, one other), the distorted one is WA hosting.
BUT also on the first one, I never used any template from gp premium, I just did my own colors a bit and menus/design, etc, while on the second one I did use a template. When using a template of them, all codes look different and more complicated, so it could be beause of that as well I think.
Will contact gp again and see what else I should change, but I'm not sur this time it is due to the hosting, because my africa site still hosted here, actually stil has a great speed, to my surprise, but there are not over a 100 posts yet :-)

While doing so research for this issue, I discovered that GP premium images conflict with the WP media sizes, and therefore GP image size options are now aligned with WordPress.

That was a surprise to me. I'm on my phone, right now, and will get on computer to find the link to share.

Rudy

It looks like WA hosting is to blame for speed issues. We can't even use WP Rocket; must host elsewhere. I do not have the funds for that. I did try Imagify. My LCP is no better it's 79 with Imagify. See screenshots. One with Imagify for featured image. Without a featured image with Imagify still on my site, there is not much improvement; the speed is about 87.

I have the speed set on Extreme Speed. Not even that works. I removed Imagify, and then the speed got worse after that, so it defeated the purpose. I have decided to give it up. Im done with this stuff. As long as my sites are hosted here, Mobile speed will always SUCK! That's my conclusion. I tried the free version of GP- the same issue. Nothing changes.

Yes, there is some thibgs WA hosting can hinder.

I would consider looking for other options than WP Rocket.

At WA, we can't use the optimize tool that WP Optimize offers, so I feel your pain, Brenda!


Rudy

Rudy,

You are right about that! There are no other options. I tried everything under the clouds( there is no sun here in PNW at this time of the year), but nothing worked. So yes, painful as it is, mobile speed will always be bad because of WA hosting issue. They need to improve it. StephenThiam recommended this plugin, I dont see how that will help with images.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/

to be clear: you have no ads on your website, right? And just to ask (to compare), how many blog posts do you have on your site at the moment?
Because earlier for my mini site , the problems with speed started around 150 posts if I remember well.
And then I started using wp rocket, which definitely helped, but starting adds on it, I had to change hosting
But on the other hand, and to my surprise, my second site the speed is great, and I use lots of pictures and videos on it, and the same plugins or even more than on my first site, BUT there are only about 80 posts on it yet
I've heard 'through the grapevine' that issues with speed begin after about 100 blog posts, on average. No clue if that's true or not, so Kyle shouldn't bite the messenger :-p #justsaying

I would like to see that link though if you can. It is all so weird, because I have no problems at all with my first site from GP premium, but I do have them on my second site, also from gp premium. The only difference there is that I use a template.

So you don´t keep it in the media library! Interesting.
But what about things like alt texts? Are there no problem with this method?

When you click Add Featured Image, it asks you to upload it to the Media Library.

And then you can add Alt Text as normal

Kyle recommended not to use WP Rocket here as that didn´t fit enough for the system in WA. I don´t remember the words.

I used Imagfy, but it was something I was not happy about, so I changed for a second time to Short Pixel.

But Short Pixel is far from being perfect. The image seems to be reduced there, so that is the reason I changed back.

I have the feeling the problem is here but I don´t know. Because the performance changed some time ago and hasn´t come up again.

Great! I tried that; thanks again!

Here's Article title -
GeneratePress Theme Featured Image Size Problem

Here's the link: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/generatepress-theme-featured-image-size-problem/


Rudy

We started to see problems at 10k visitors per month, rather than the number of posts.

Under the new rules introduced a year ago, websites were restricted to a lower number of visitors.

But if we are grandfathered in, then supposedly no change.

But how can they restrict some sites and not others if they happen to be on the same server?

#sayingnothing

Right, there are no ads on my site. I remember you telling me about WP Rocket; you mentioned changing hosting. I remember that one too.

I have two websites my MMO niche (affiliate boot camp) promoting WA. The second one is for a paid-per-click site for Microsoft Ads that promotes WA with no SEO; it's mainly a PPC site for that purpose.

I started with Microsoft Ads. I did get some traffic, but no conversions. I stopped my PPC ads because they were getting expensive. I didn't want to run out of money that I didn't have. My late hubby would flip in his grave if he found out I blew the money away. He was a strict army guy who was on target for budgeting. I learned that from him. As a result, as a widow for seven years, he taught me well. Never blow money away and have nothing to show for it.

Im following Partha's latest post about creating unique posts promoting WA. I have about five or fewer on the new WA promotion site. I did everything wrong in the past with the boot camp. I did not like writing reviews about targeting a company with a right to exist, like calling it a scam when it is not. All businesses have a right to exist. I didn't want to write those kinds of reviews. They were taught in the previous Affiliate Bootcamp.

Now the Boot camp has been revamped and is better, the focus is on the WA platform rather than reviews. I trashed that site; it got hit by Google updates a couple of years ago, and then I decided to destroy it. I wasn't happy with my review site.

That's too bad that WP Rocket is blacklisted here. Someone did say I can ask Site Support for that. I am not sure about that. We have to buy it as it's not free. Wa hosting has its cache system, and my speed setting is on Extreme.

Thanks for sharing your experience; everyone has different problems.

I went to look at Partha's Men's exercise site. it's on GP, and he got a lot of images there. Where is the Prince when I need him? I checked his Google Core Vitals; his speed on mobile is 89, and he still has LCP issues while using the paid version of Imagify. His LCP is 3.2, so it is no different than mine. Same issues. he hosted here in WA. He's got many articles on that site. So it doesn't matter it's a WA hosting speed issue with mobile, so therefore, IT SUCKS!

That doesnt help.

My traffic is just beginning, so it's not my traffic; it's the dang hosting issue at WA; that mobile speed will always be an issue. I checked Partha's men's body exercise site; his mobile speed isn't better than mine. It's about the same; he is 89, and LCP is high because of images, so maybe Partha isn't bothered by mobile, but I am significantly concerned about it because many people are doing mobile these days. #itsucks

Johann, you are right we can't have WP Rocket conflicts with the hosting here. So my conclusion is that Wa hosting will always have mobile issues, WA servers need to be upgraded to help our mobile speed, so no matter what my mobile speed will never be better with or without images. #itsucks

Did you get the chance to look at my screenshots I posted earlier?

The site that is hosted here, has 145 posts with lots of images, a video in every post, network ads on every page, and 8k visitors per month.

But it passes the Core Web Vitals and no problems with LCP.

I do agree that there could be problems with the hosting here, but it's not across the board.

I just don't have an answer for you, unfortunately...

Sigh! 🥺😢

Im going to try what Jovo suggested last chance

Brenda, one quick thing though, before I go to bed: speed on mobile of 89 is not bad at all,and I wouldn't be frustrated about that at all, for the moment, let it rest. I was severely worried back then because it was all the way down in the red zone (30-40%). Now THAT hurt my site back then severely. My mobile speed is now 89 on mobile as well on my miniature site, and it is hosted elsewhere, but I'm pretty sure if I would remove the adds, it would go up.
But again, 89 on mobile is NOT something to worry about! The latest google update was not about speed at all either, we had that update before last year, when I got hit a first time and after I fixed that, the traffic grew immensely. the latest update, well, nobody actually seems to know for sure what's going on with Google, that I call frustrating as hell haha!
The LCP issue however, that I don't know, I have 2,1s.
( I can imagine that being a host thing, but as I said, on the other hand, the Africa site still hosted here, has perfect numbers, on mobile as well. I don't get it.
We should get some more lessons about those technical things here, because it has been driving me mad in the past for sure. Such a waste of time.
And for sure, I don't like wasting money either and thats why I will let the pp membership end here and go back to premium, because for now, I don't feel like I'm getting anything out of the classes in it, and the difference actually pays for the other hosting LOL.
The platform itself is way better for sure, for beginners. If you are in the money making online niche , theres bucks to be made by promoting WA. I know that, but my passion isn't in it, so that doesn't work either, not in the long term.
Just my 2 cents

aaaaah, that probably explains that i have no problems yet with my africa site, lol! thanks

not just not recommended, but totally block it. And to me, that doesnt make sense, although I could ask for an exception. They know that people are paying for these plugins, why block them or make them (partly) unusable?

Final thought!

Are you using a social media plugin?

They can dramatically slow down your site, especially if you have the settings to add the icons above your content.

Which is a bit pointless anyway, lol.

Until visitors have read your post, why would they want to share it?

If the server is trying to load clickable icons before text, then it will take longer.

And some plugins are worse than others, hence why Add to Any is now blacklisted here.

No social media plugins, heck they dont even work. I use the old method (old school) of adding my social media icons via HTML code on my website. That works, no plugins like Sassy Social; it doesnt work for me. I have removed it. The Icons are below my greetings. They are small social icons with no effect. My plugins are not that many; most are GP, GenerateBlocks, Rank Math Pro (no cookies, removed that too,) do have Google Tag manager, Google fonts that slow site down from Rank Math for Google Analytics, and no Site Kit, just Rank Math, I know how you guys feel about not using any SEO plugins. I still use them so does Jay. Im keeping it. Let me try Jovo's way and see if it works

GP Premium is not an issue, hosted here. Jay's movie site was a collaboration project with an external company, and he purchased that off of that company recently, that is why it was hosted elsewhere. Not sure your constant motivation to slag our hosting?

It made complete sense because some software can´t use this or that.
And WA explained it well, but I have forgotten why it was.

Kyle, I said it's a WA Hosting issue, not Diane. I tried everything I could not fix my featured image to no avail. Now, my mobile speed is 95 without a featured image. I was using Imagify,for compression, but not even that worked.

I went from 40 with a featured image to 95 without one. I am better off its GP Premium Marketer. I have the same problem on my PPC Site with the Kadence theme, so I removed it.

I wish our WA hosting speed would improve for mobile users. We need services like WP Rocket, but it's blacklisted in WA. I dont understand why.

I have my speed set on extreme still featured image at 700x497, which still produces a high LCP of about 9.7, and mobile speed to 40. No thanks. I removed it, and now my mobile speed is above 95, and my desktop is 100, all are 100 desktops, that's much better.

Why do we need a feature image? I see no purpose in having it if it will cause slow speed on mobile.

How many people are using mobile today? A lot! High percentage.

We need a better speed for mobile if using a featured image.

What is your speed for your website, Kyle? Please let me know how to fix it so my mobile speed will be above the green level instead of below that.

Sorry if I said it's WA hosting; I know you will feel defensive about it I understand. It's my blunt thinking. My bad, I apologize for saying that. I concluded because I could not find any other problem that would cause speed issues; I have Google Tag Manager and Google font that also cause slowing speed, and the same goes for Site Kit. I removed Site Kit, and I'm thinking about removing Google analytics and going with independent analytics because that does not have Javascript javascript and css cause slowing speed. If you know the solution, I will listen and try to fix it instead of getting mad about it.

if I could afford the Enterprise to get my own dedicated server I wouldn't have this issue right?

Sorry, it is so many posts it started to be a little confusing, so I am not sure you had talked about it.
So just to be 100% sure!

I have had this problem for the last few weeks and simply don´t understand it (I use feature images and still do).
I have always cleared cache regularly.

So tonight, after all this discussion, I decided to do that just to be sure.
Then I saw that somehow important things had changed without I knowing about it!

I always use extreme, but it has changed to accelerate! Without I know about it.

So I did fix that and check the speed. A few seconds later, the Google speed went from last week's 40-55 to 84/85! And similar in the posts even so I need to check them better. I need to see the best way to use Canva for the format, and it was very different than it should be when I checked it!

So to be safe than sorry, I wanted to check if it was on extreme or went to accelerate.

Mine is on Extreme speed. Same here. I use Canva for my photo featured image so mobile speed to 84/85 is still slow Im sure your LCP (largest content paint). is high because of the featured image. Did you look at your LCP in Page Speed Insights (Google Core Vitals). I want my mobile speed not to be slow because of slow loading photos. After I removed it all. Now my speed is 95 and LCP is 1.8 because no featured image showing on the blog roll under excerpt "read more" no photos there so that bumped up my mobile speed higher. If people want to see image they click read more then my images on inside the post but nothing at top and nothing until after the introduction.

I'm having the same trouble, analytics suggests removing WP plugins bit I only have a couple, 5 plugins in total, have an optimizer and a lazy load which Google suggested...still no change to the analytics !