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Hello Guys, hope you all are farring well in this uncertain times?
Please I have recently been experiencing constant drop in my mobile usage pages on Search Console and I
Mobile Usage might be dropping but is Desktop Usage going up?
How do your overall stats look? Are they also dropping, staying the same or increasing?
Depending on your niche, it might just be due to everyone being in lockdown. As they are not out and about, they might be using their desktops/laptops to access your website.
You always need to look at stats in context, and not just one particular aspect, thinking it's something that you have done. Outside factors can also play a huge role, and you need to look at the bigger picture.
Hope that helps,
Chrystopher
Thanks, Christopher for your response, I guess that does make sense.
And yes my desktop usage keeps going higher while the mobile drops but from your point of view I guess that could be the reason why.
Once again thanks for taking the time to respond.
Cheers
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Dealing with drop in mobile usage?
Hello Guys, hope you all are farring well in this uncertain times?
Please I have recently been experiencing constant drop in my mobile usage pages on Search Console and I
Hi Nnakife,
I was checking my site loading speeds the other day and most of my desktop speeds were excellent. Many 100's among them.
The speeds on my mobile were another story completely. many were at 40's. I refreshed a couple that were showing 40, they went down to the mid 20's.
I looked at the google data, and it was telling me my image's needed optimization. Went to my site put my image loading on lazy load and still the mobile speeds were s l o ..w.
I Contacted site support
They came back and said Google is saying my images needed optimization.
My site speeds on mobile have never really been great, but a bit of a disappointment to see them down there.
The other thing, I submitted a new post for indexing the other day, and Google told me the page was mobile friendly, as were all my other pages..
I am not sure if you can just put it down to Covid, Nnakife...You might want to go check your site health and see where to go from there.
Stay Safe
Michael.
Thanks, Greensail, I like the "down to COVID" idea, lol, who knows it probably might be.
My site health is in good shape and yes my mobile pages have been bouncing up and down but mostly in the 60s and 70s and rarely ever down to 40s.
But I never experienced any fall in mobile usability all the while until lately even though nothing specific has changed.
Maybe I am just overreacting but then we will see.
Thanks for your help.
Cheers
Mobile Usage might be dropping but is Desktop Usage going up?
How do your overall stats look? Are they also dropping, staying the same or increasing?
Depending on your niche, it might just be due to everyone being in lockdown. As they are not out and about, they might be using their desktops/laptops to access your website.
You always need to look at stats in context, and not just one particular aspect, thinking it's something that you have done. Outside factors can also play a huge role, and you need to look at the bigger picture.
Hope that helps,
Chrystopher
Thanks, Christopher for your response, I guess that does make sense.
And yes my desktop usage keeps going higher while the mobile drops but from your point of view I guess that could be the reason why.
Once again thanks for taking the time to respond.
Cheers
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Hi Guys, Hope you all are doing great? Just a quick one here.
Can anyone please direct me on how to deactivate date and time so they don't appear on my articles when I pu
Thank you for asking the question... Trish's response is helpful.
Have a Blessed Sunday.
Monica
Hey Nnakife,
You may find the following blog post to be very informative: Should You Ever Remove The Date From Your Posts And Pages? Also... see screen print for a second suggestion.
Hope you find this helpful.
Wow! Trish, I just had an interesting read and now I am not sure what to do anymore. A lot of people have different opinion on leaving or not leaving the dates.
If you dont mind my asking, what's your opinion on leaving the articles undated?
I'm in the middle of testing this myself. One site has had the dates removed while others do not. Only time will tell which works best.
I think some themes allow you to remove it but it's a standard feature of WP, unfortunately. The date can be removed with external plugins like Andre already said. Why do you want to remove the dates?
It came to my knowledge that having our articles undated helps with SEO, though I don't know how true this is, I do believe it's better when they are not dated, that way there won't be an issue of outdated contents. My opinion though.
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Help with date and time please?
Hi Guys, Hope you all are doing great? Just a quick one here.
Can anyone please direct me on how to deactivate date and time so they don't appear on my articles when I pu
Thank you for asking the question... Trish's response is helpful.
Have a Blessed Sunday.
Monica
Hey Nnakife,
You may find the following blog post to be very informative: Should You Ever Remove The Date From Your Posts And Pages? Also... see screen print for a second suggestion.
Hope you find this helpful.
Wow! Trish, I just had an interesting read and now I am not sure what to do anymore. A lot of people have different opinion on leaving or not leaving the dates.
If you dont mind my asking, what's your opinion on leaving the articles undated?
I'm in the middle of testing this myself. One site has had the dates removed while others do not. Only time will tell which works best.
I think some themes allow you to remove it but it's a standard feature of WP, unfortunately. The date can be removed with external plugins like Andre already said. Why do you want to remove the dates?
It came to my knowledge that having our articles undated helps with SEO, though I don't know how true this is, I do believe it's better when they are not dated, that way there won't be an issue of outdated contents. My opinion though.
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Hi Guys, hope you all are doing great? Please I will appreciate if someone can help me out with this.
I recently installed the WP Product Review Lite and used it to publi
Scott got you. If you are reviewing based on a template, then populating the information is necessary or the review template will have empty fields.
I did provide all the information present about the product. Most of the things listed are not available for the product.
That is why I don't know how to fix this, but will try what Scott said and see what happens.
Thanks for your response. I appreciate it.
Hello,
I don't see the image you said you were going to include but I believe I know the answer.
Edit your post (using the classic, not block editor). Scroll down to the Product Review Extra Settings section and click on Product to bring up a menu. Select Individual Product from the list (see attached image) and then don't forget to hit update to save your changes. Resubmit your page for indexing and wait.
Scott
Oh my goodness! Sorry, I thought I uploaded it, will do that right away. I will try the individual product and see what happens.
Thanks for your response.
Hi Scott, do you have any idea if these reviews don't show up on our blog roll?
If so, does that mean I have to add them on menus?
The review ends up on the post. The post ends up on the blog roll. The only other place the review ratings might show is in the google search results snippet (rich snippets).
That is what I dont understand, ot doesnt show up in my blogroll, more like a page. I can only view it if I go to my dashboard and click on reviews.
Which means there must be something wrong and I dont understand what.
Thanks for your response though, appreciate it.
Hi Mac, I don't know if this is a question or a statement, but yes I have the reviews section at my back end, and when I use it as a template for reviews then the post doesn't show up on my blogroll.
My question is if it is supposed to be that way?
So it looks like your theme or plugin is set to create a new post type called reviews. Because it's a different post type, they won't show on the blog roll.
My guess is that you have this turned on:
Enable review post type
What I don't know is if turning it off will convert existing posts back to normal or only new ones.
Yes Mac, the WP Lite plugin provides that option but I didnt know it will make the reviews not show on the blogroll.
I have done everything to stop receievingthese warnings from google but every review I create using this plugin brings this warning back for each product.
So I am thinking of deactivating the plugin but faced with another problem on how to transfer the review back to my normal blogroll before deactivating the plugin.
There are plugins out there to change post and page types. I don't know a name off-hand but they do exist. The other option is to simply copy from the old and paste into a new post but I'm not sure if you can move comments, etc.
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Can someone give me an insight on this please?
Hi Guys, hope you all are doing great? Please I will appreciate if someone can help me out with this.
I recently installed the WP Product Review Lite and used it to publi
Scott got you. If you are reviewing based on a template, then populating the information is necessary or the review template will have empty fields.
I did provide all the information present about the product. Most of the things listed are not available for the product.
That is why I don't know how to fix this, but will try what Scott said and see what happens.
Thanks for your response. I appreciate it.
Hello,
I don't see the image you said you were going to include but I believe I know the answer.
Edit your post (using the classic, not block editor). Scroll down to the Product Review Extra Settings section and click on Product to bring up a menu. Select Individual Product from the list (see attached image) and then don't forget to hit update to save your changes. Resubmit your page for indexing and wait.
Scott
Oh my goodness! Sorry, I thought I uploaded it, will do that right away. I will try the individual product and see what happens.
Thanks for your response.
Hi Scott, do you have any idea if these reviews don't show up on our blog roll?
If so, does that mean I have to add them on menus?
The review ends up on the post. The post ends up on the blog roll. The only other place the review ratings might show is in the google search results snippet (rich snippets).
That is what I dont understand, ot doesnt show up in my blogroll, more like a page. I can only view it if I go to my dashboard and click on reviews.
Which means there must be something wrong and I dont understand what.
Thanks for your response though, appreciate it.
Hi Mac, I don't know if this is a question or a statement, but yes I have the reviews section at my back end, and when I use it as a template for reviews then the post doesn't show up on my blogroll.
My question is if it is supposed to be that way?
So it looks like your theme or plugin is set to create a new post type called reviews. Because it's a different post type, they won't show on the blog roll.
My guess is that you have this turned on:
Enable review post type
What I don't know is if turning it off will convert existing posts back to normal or only new ones.
Yes Mac, the WP Lite plugin provides that option but I didnt know it will make the reviews not show on the blogroll.
I have done everything to stop receievingthese warnings from google but every review I create using this plugin brings this warning back for each product.
So I am thinking of deactivating the plugin but faced with another problem on how to transfer the review back to my normal blogroll before deactivating the plugin.
There are plugins out there to change post and page types. I don't know a name off-hand but they do exist. The other option is to simply copy from the old and paste into a new post but I'm not sure if you can move comments, etc.
See more comments
Hi Nnakife,
I was checking my site loading speeds the other day and most of my desktop speeds were excellent. Many 100's among them.
The speeds on my mobile were another story completely. many were at 40's. I refreshed a couple that were showing 40, they went down to the mid 20's.
I looked at the google data, and it was telling me my image's needed optimization. Went to my site put my image loading on lazy load and still the mobile speeds were s l o ..w.
I Contacted site support
They came back and said Google is saying my images needed optimization.
My site speeds on mobile have never really been great, but a bit of a disappointment to see them down there.
The other thing, I submitted a new post for indexing the other day, and Google told me the page was mobile friendly, as were all my other pages..
I am not sure if you can just put it down to Covid, Nnakife...You might want to go check your site health and see where to go from there.
Stay Safe
Michael.
Thanks, Greensail, I like the "down to COVID" idea, lol, who knows it probably might be.
My site health is in good shape and yes my mobile pages have been bouncing up and down but mostly in the 60s and 70s and rarely ever down to 40s.
But I never experienced any fall in mobile usability all the while until lately even though nothing specific has changed.
Maybe I am just overreacting but then we will see.
Thanks for your help.
Cheers