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Hi WA world
I was thinking about adding sticky social media buttons to my posts, this would only be applicable for mobile devices.
Do you have any suggerstion for a
How to I create social media sticky footer buttons?
Hi WA world
I was thinking about adding sticky social media buttons to my posts, this would only be applicable for mobile devices.
Do you have any suggerstion for a
Hi Chris. I use Sassy Social Share. It's easy to set up and looks great on my site. Very customizable.
Hi All,
I just validated my Google search console and found out that there is only one post showing on the pages tab.
I have 4 posts so wondering if I've missed
Hi Chris,
The GSC is also a bit of a mystery to me, after having played with it for about 2 months. A few things: 1- Have you submitted a site map? I'd do that first. Note that this only helps a tiny bit towards getting your posts indexed by Google. 2- I guess it takes at least a week or two after validating your GSC before it starts showing updated/more accurate results. 3- Bottom line is that given that your website is very new with very few posts, it's a bit too soon to check your results, if this leads to frustration with the slow progress at getting traffic to your site. It's great that you're getting this set up, but I suggest not to obsess with it, just check the results every other week or so. Just my two cents.
have you submitted them to google search?
using the url inspection you can 'see what google sees'.
if you add your url and google says that it doesn't have your article indexed then add it to its list to visit.
if it is on the list then have a look at it live, and maybe reindex it.
it does take a while to inde articles and it can be random when google visits your site.
this is one of the reasons backlinks are important, the more you have them ore important google thinks your article is.
it may take a while, but in the meantime create more content.
good luck
phil
This is all quite new to me (1month in!)
So I requested post indexing as the links we not indexed and I got the below error
Discovery
Not checked in live tests
Crawl
Time - Jul 8, 2019, 1:58:23 PM
Crawled as - Googlebot desktop
Crawl allowed? - Yes
Page fetch - Successful
Indexing
Indexing allowed? - No: 'noindex' detected in 'robots' meta tag
User-declared canonical - N/A
Google-selected canonical - Only determined after indexing
Is this normal, is there something I should do?
you have set the article to no index, so google will not index it.
if you edit the article and go down the bottom to the all in one seo part then you may have ticked the no index box - untick this and resave and try again.
as long as you want the article indexed.
I'm not sure if that is the case, attached is a screenshot of the NOINDEX setting in the All in one SEO.
but that is the general settings - you are looking for specific ones for the articles not inexed
the three tick boxes are the same as mine, so they should be ok.
hmm...
might be worth having a word with site support.
i think it is in the robots.txt, but not done any work with that and wouldn't want you to mees up your site.
sorry i can't help you any further Chris.
phil
Thanks for all the suggestions! even though it's not solved yet, it's a good learning curve :D
that's all they have crawled so far and indexed. As you get more post on your site Google will start visiting more often and indexing your post faster. I call it growing pains.
Hi Yuma, I'm getting the below error, it that an issue or a growing pain?
Indexing allowed? - No: 'noindex' detected in 'robots' meta tag
Nope, seems all fine (attached screenshot). I may not have done my sitemap correctly yet though (I'm not even sure how!)
Although as being suggested in other comments, it may be that my site is just too young, just want to make sure that there is not something fundamentally wrong.
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Why is google search console not showing all my pages?
Hi All,
I just validated my Google search console and found out that there is only one post showing on the pages tab.
I have 4 posts so wondering if I've missed
Hi Chris,
The GSC is also a bit of a mystery to me, after having played with it for about 2 months. A few things: 1- Have you submitted a site map? I'd do that first. Note that this only helps a tiny bit towards getting your posts indexed by Google. 2- I guess it takes at least a week or two after validating your GSC before it starts showing updated/more accurate results. 3- Bottom line is that given that your website is very new with very few posts, it's a bit too soon to check your results, if this leads to frustration with the slow progress at getting traffic to your site. It's great that you're getting this set up, but I suggest not to obsess with it, just check the results every other week or so. Just my two cents.
have you submitted them to google search?
using the url inspection you can 'see what google sees'.
if you add your url and google says that it doesn't have your article indexed then add it to its list to visit.
if it is on the list then have a look at it live, and maybe reindex it.
it does take a while to inde articles and it can be random when google visits your site.
this is one of the reasons backlinks are important, the more you have them ore important google thinks your article is.
it may take a while, but in the meantime create more content.
good luck
phil
This is all quite new to me (1month in!)
So I requested post indexing as the links we not indexed and I got the below error
Discovery
Not checked in live tests
Crawl
Time - Jul 8, 2019, 1:58:23 PM
Crawled as - Googlebot desktop
Crawl allowed? - Yes
Page fetch - Successful
Indexing
Indexing allowed? - No: 'noindex' detected in 'robots' meta tag
User-declared canonical - N/A
Google-selected canonical - Only determined after indexing
Is this normal, is there something I should do?
you have set the article to no index, so google will not index it.
if you edit the article and go down the bottom to the all in one seo part then you may have ticked the no index box - untick this and resave and try again.
as long as you want the article indexed.
I'm not sure if that is the case, attached is a screenshot of the NOINDEX setting in the All in one SEO.
but that is the general settings - you are looking for specific ones for the articles not inexed
the three tick boxes are the same as mine, so they should be ok.
hmm...
might be worth having a word with site support.
i think it is in the robots.txt, but not done any work with that and wouldn't want you to mees up your site.
sorry i can't help you any further Chris.
phil
Thanks for all the suggestions! even though it's not solved yet, it's a good learning curve :D
that's all they have crawled so far and indexed. As you get more post on your site Google will start visiting more often and indexing your post faster. I call it growing pains.
Hi Yuma, I'm getting the below error, it that an issue or a growing pain?
Indexing allowed? - No: 'noindex' detected in 'robots' meta tag
Nope, seems all fine (attached screenshot). I may not have done my sitemap correctly yet though (I'm not even sure how!)
Although as being suggested in other comments, it may be that my site is just too young, just want to make sure that there is not something fundamentally wrong.
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Hi all,
Inside of the WA comment feature I've seen the option to edit responses we received on our post comments.
Has anyone used this, what happens?
Cheer
Thanks for all the comments, very useful! If your looking to swap good quality comments give me a shout!
Good Day, Chris.
Personally, I'm not opposed to a few spelling corrections, and the like, but if you have to EDIT the comment so much that it barely looks like the "original", ... what's the point!
You may as well write your own comments and save all that effort to write content for your website.
I am also well aware that many members here do not have English as a first language. I have "no problems" with that!
Many of these lame comments are not always a language issue. Most of them are a laziness issue.
I can only comment in 2 languages, but if had to comment in a language that I was not sufficiently proficient in, I would construct the comment in my native language then use a "translation app", and there are many on the web.
The best "antidote" for bad comments is to refuse them. I have had comments refused, and this was the exact medicine that I needed to learn how to comment properly.
I would love to have decent comments for my website, but at the moment I'm hanging on to my credits because I get "comment flashbacks", a kind of "shell-shock" or PTSD.
I am also not opposed to comments that don't approve of my content, as long as it's explained in a decent manner.
I look forward to your comment about my comment.
Thanks for the opportunity to express my views on comments.
Of course, there's the "feedback" issues that need a comment, but that's for another day!
Paul
Hi Paul,
Thanks for your thoughts, we are on the same page. It feels wrong to correct comments to suit the what you'd like, I wouldn't do this but I was wondering if there was a way to give feedback on the comment.
You mentioned the feedback issue, I think this is what I've been experiencing, some comments seem to be more of feedback on the post/website rather than an actual comment on the content. I've approved one of these recently but I'm thinking that I probably won't in the future as it seems a bit staged.
I have however received some very good comments that address the context, which are a pleasure to respond to.
Thanks again for your thoughts
Chris
Hi Chris,
When you disapprove a comment, you have to provide a reason, and if it is feedback, it is not a comment.
At the end of the day, we're all trying to be "nice" and helpful, but there's no need to bend over backwards and call an apple an orange!
Happy commenting and stay in touch.
Paul
I agree with Dale. The issue with site comments at the moment Is the quality of the comments. If we don't reject bad comments how can we ever teach people to take their time, read the blog and actually write an informed comment. I gave up on using this system about 4 months ago. I'd love to go back to it, but if I do I will be expecting exactly what I give others, good quality comments and decent time spent on the blog I'm commenting on. Jim
Good Day, Dale.
I like your comment, lol, and I'm with you on this one.
I arrived at the same conclusion a few months ago, and the frustration was just too much to bear.
I would read the said website, top to bottom, and offer a respectable comment of good length, value, and engagement, only to receive, very poor quality comments in return. Definitely not comments that I would want on my website.
This comment is one that I'm seeing quite a bit whenever the "comment" issue is brought up.
Paul
Unless you're just tidying up spelling my advice would be to just reject the comment rather than alter it. I'm sure some people would be OK with you tweaking their comments, however I personally would not take too kindly to my words being altered & I imagine there are others out there that feel the same way.
Yes, I've used it, you can edit people comments with this feature. Fix the grammar errors or delete something you don't like from that comment.
as long as he is not coming back to your website to check his comment he doesn't know. I suggest not changing people comments. Unless they are not good so I am not even bothered to accept them.
And Edit feature I'm using just to fix people grammatical error in that comment.
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Can I edit reposes that I get on requested comments?
Hi all,
Inside of the WA comment feature I've seen the option to edit responses we received on our post comments.
Has anyone used this, what happens?
Cheer
Thanks for all the comments, very useful! If your looking to swap good quality comments give me a shout!
Good Day, Chris.
Personally, I'm not opposed to a few spelling corrections, and the like, but if you have to EDIT the comment so much that it barely looks like the "original", ... what's the point!
You may as well write your own comments and save all that effort to write content for your website.
I am also well aware that many members here do not have English as a first language. I have "no problems" with that!
Many of these lame comments are not always a language issue. Most of them are a laziness issue.
I can only comment in 2 languages, but if had to comment in a language that I was not sufficiently proficient in, I would construct the comment in my native language then use a "translation app", and there are many on the web.
The best "antidote" for bad comments is to refuse them. I have had comments refused, and this was the exact medicine that I needed to learn how to comment properly.
I would love to have decent comments for my website, but at the moment I'm hanging on to my credits because I get "comment flashbacks", a kind of "shell-shock" or PTSD.
I am also not opposed to comments that don't approve of my content, as long as it's explained in a decent manner.
I look forward to your comment about my comment.
Thanks for the opportunity to express my views on comments.
Of course, there's the "feedback" issues that need a comment, but that's for another day!
Paul
Hi Paul,
Thanks for your thoughts, we are on the same page. It feels wrong to correct comments to suit the what you'd like, I wouldn't do this but I was wondering if there was a way to give feedback on the comment.
You mentioned the feedback issue, I think this is what I've been experiencing, some comments seem to be more of feedback on the post/website rather than an actual comment on the content. I've approved one of these recently but I'm thinking that I probably won't in the future as it seems a bit staged.
I have however received some very good comments that address the context, which are a pleasure to respond to.
Thanks again for your thoughts
Chris
Hi Chris,
When you disapprove a comment, you have to provide a reason, and if it is feedback, it is not a comment.
At the end of the day, we're all trying to be "nice" and helpful, but there's no need to bend over backwards and call an apple an orange!
Happy commenting and stay in touch.
Paul
I agree with Dale. The issue with site comments at the moment Is the quality of the comments. If we don't reject bad comments how can we ever teach people to take their time, read the blog and actually write an informed comment. I gave up on using this system about 4 months ago. I'd love to go back to it, but if I do I will be expecting exactly what I give others, good quality comments and decent time spent on the blog I'm commenting on. Jim
Good Day, Dale.
I like your comment, lol, and I'm with you on this one.
I arrived at the same conclusion a few months ago, and the frustration was just too much to bear.
I would read the said website, top to bottom, and offer a respectable comment of good length, value, and engagement, only to receive, very poor quality comments in return. Definitely not comments that I would want on my website.
This comment is one that I'm seeing quite a bit whenever the "comment" issue is brought up.
Paul
Unless you're just tidying up spelling my advice would be to just reject the comment rather than alter it. I'm sure some people would be OK with you tweaking their comments, however I personally would not take too kindly to my words being altered & I imagine there are others out there that feel the same way.
Yes, I've used it, you can edit people comments with this feature. Fix the grammar errors or delete something you don't like from that comment.
as long as he is not coming back to your website to check his comment he doesn't know. I suggest not changing people comments. Unless they are not good so I am not even bothered to accept them.
And Edit feature I'm using just to fix people grammatical error in that comment.
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Hi WA world,
Just had a thought. If I have an Amazon affiliate link that is connected to my Amazon UK profile will I be able to make a sale in the US? Will the link upda
They have a feature you can setup. It's called OneLink and you have to sign up for an associate account in each region you wish to service: https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/node/topic/202164400
I second this answer. Amazon Associates has a code you can use called OneLink in your headers that enable this feature.
You do have to sign up for each region and link them to your account.
Great, thanks for the tip. I'll check that out, seems like it should be such a basic thing to monetize globally! Unless I'm missing a fundamental principle.
I haven't checked on the BestAzon plugin recently, but this plugin will redirect to the Amazon link associated with the reader's country of origin. There is some training that I created that might help you here. Amazon Affiliate Links and The BestAzon Plugin Hope this works for you.
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Does my amazon affiliate link change to the readers country?
Hi WA world,
Just had a thought. If I have an Amazon affiliate link that is connected to my Amazon UK profile will I be able to make a sale in the US? Will the link upda
They have a feature you can setup. It's called OneLink and you have to sign up for an associate account in each region you wish to service: https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/node/topic/202164400
I second this answer. Amazon Associates has a code you can use called OneLink in your headers that enable this feature.
You do have to sign up for each region and link them to your account.
Great, thanks for the tip. I'll check that out, seems like it should be such a basic thing to monetize globally! Unless I'm missing a fundamental principle.
I haven't checked on the BestAzon plugin recently, but this plugin will redirect to the Amazon link associated with the reader's country of origin. There is some training that I created that might help you here. Amazon Affiliate Links and The BestAzon Plugin Hope this works for you.
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Hi Chris. I use Sassy Social Share. It's easy to set up and looks great on my site. Very customizable.