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Dear WA members,
I have 3 somewhat related questions on Site Content and hope members can share their practices with me.
1. When we post content via Site Content
I've always published directly from Site Content to the website. When you go into your back office and into your post editor it will be in a classic editor block, but you can just click on it's converted to individual blocks. No need to unpublish it, just tweak it however you like, maybe add a YouTube video, relevant images, done and done. That process takes a few minutes. The article isn't even indexed at that point.
Keep the process simple and efficient and your workflow is streamlined.
Hello Eric, thanks for chipping in!
I also have this situation where I want the permalink to be the keyword but the post/blog title will be something more catchy. So when we post via Site content, both the permalink and the post/blog title will be the same.
So when we publish via SiteContent to the website, I have to change the permalink quite quickly before it gets indexed right?
You can set the permalink from inside site content just before you publish it. As an example the title might be “Wealthy Affiliate Review 2025: Why It’s Still My Top Choice” and the permalink would be http:/yourdomain.com/wealthyaffiliatereview
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Dear WA members,
I have 3 somewhat related questions on Site Content and hope members can share their practices with me.
1. When we post content via Site Content
I never use Site Content. It’s easier to create everything in a blank post/page in the Block Editor.
I would just copy WA AI generated content from Site Content to the Block Editor, save it as a draft, and go back to edit and publish at your convenience.
Thus works especially well if you’re using the WA AI bulk writer.
Frank 🎸
Thanks Frank. I think I prefer this too.
On publishing directly via site content, I think the only benefit seems to be we can track whether the post has been indexed or not. I do not know how useful is that actually.
Its just abit annoying there are many drafts when we don't publish from site content.
I've always published directly from Site Content to the website. When you go into your back office and into your post editor it will be in a classic editor block, but you can just click on it's converted to individual blocks. No need to unpublish it, just tweak it however you like, maybe add a YouTube video, relevant images, done and done. That process takes a few minutes. The article isn't even indexed at that point.
Keep the process simple and efficient and your workflow is streamlined.
Hello Eric, thanks for chipping in!
I also have this situation where I want the permalink to be the keyword but the post/blog title will be something more catchy. So when we post via Site content, both the permalink and the post/blog title will be the same.
So when we publish via SiteContent to the website, I have to change the permalink quite quickly before it gets indexed right?
You can set the permalink from inside site content just before you publish it. As an example the title might be “Wealthy Affiliate Review 2025: Why It’s Still My Top Choice” and the permalink would be http:/yourdomain.com/wealthyaffiliatereview
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Dear WA Community,
I would like to ask the community if anyone has previously set up MS Outlook to send emails from your domain email account, or use Webmail to send em
Yes! For our WA hosted domains, email delivery from our sever via webmail has been sporadic; messages we send via our email client (we use Thunderbird instead of MS Outlook) never arrive to the intended recipient’s inbox.
Since we don’t receive any error messages, those emails seem to just get lost in cyber-oblivion!
The WA Tech Support Team has been diligently working to identify & resolve the issue since I first pointed it out to them last Friday.
So, you’re not alone!
Thank you so much for letting me know that I am not alone!
I indeed feel so isolated over the past 5-6 days. While I know Site Support is working on the ticket I raised, but I get little info or reassurance on what is really the issue other than knowing it is now handled by the senior server admin.
I didn't realise that. That's quite concerning if we can't rely on emails being delivered. How do you know they weren't? I've only used the email once and never received a response.
Hi David, fyi. I am a frequent user of my domain email account via MS Outlook as the email client.
This issue started on 18 Oct and is still not resolved as of today and no ETA could be provided.
I understood from Site Support that there is a huge email server reputation hit due to spam relay and WA email server got delisted.
So far, the only thing that we can use is Webmail, but that is not really a useful tool.
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Is anyone facing domain email delivery issue?
Dear WA Community,
I would like to ask the community if anyone has previously set up MS Outlook to send emails from your domain email account, or use Webmail to send em
Yes! For our WA hosted domains, email delivery from our sever via webmail has been sporadic; messages we send via our email client (we use Thunderbird instead of MS Outlook) never arrive to the intended recipient’s inbox.
Since we don’t receive any error messages, those emails seem to just get lost in cyber-oblivion!
The WA Tech Support Team has been diligently working to identify & resolve the issue since I first pointed it out to them last Friday.
So, you’re not alone!
Thank you so much for letting me know that I am not alone!
I indeed feel so isolated over the past 5-6 days. While I know Site Support is working on the ticket I raised, but I get little info or reassurance on what is really the issue other than knowing it is now handled by the senior server admin.
I didn't realise that. That's quite concerning if we can't rely on emails being delivered. How do you know they weren't? I've only used the email once and never received a response.
Hi David, fyi. I am a frequent user of my domain email account via MS Outlook as the email client.
This issue started on 18 Oct and is still not resolved as of today and no ETA could be provided.
I understood from Site Support that there is a huge email server reputation hit due to spam relay and WA email server got delisted.
So far, the only thing that we can use is Webmail, but that is not really a useful tool.
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Hi All,
Can anyone share how can we properly add DKIM records for our domain emails hosted here in WA?
I am trying to set it up but Site Support doesn't seems t
How did you set up your email forwarding? If you just did a simple forward in Site Email then that won't work anymore. You need to set it up through Gmail settings.
Hi Colette and Philip, I set up my domain email in MS Outlook. So when I use my domain email to send email to other people who are using gmail, those mails goes straight into spam folder.
If you are saying you actually created your domain email in Outlook, rather than WA Site Email, then I cannot cannot comment further as I know nothing about that process in Outlook. Depending on how the Outlook process works it could be that you need an smtp plugin and smtp mail service.
Thanks for chipping in. The issue is something different. It is about setting up DKIM records.
Carson's Enhancing Email Security with DMARC on Wealthy Affiliate Domains Please reach out to site support.
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/websites/support
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Has anyone requested site support to add dkim records for your domain emails hosted here in wa?
Hi All,
Can anyone share how can we properly add DKIM records for our domain emails hosted here in WA?
I am trying to set it up but Site Support doesn't seems t
How did you set up your email forwarding? If you just did a simple forward in Site Email then that won't work anymore. You need to set it up through Gmail settings.
Hi Colette and Philip, I set up my domain email in MS Outlook. So when I use my domain email to send email to other people who are using gmail, those mails goes straight into spam folder.
If you are saying you actually created your domain email in Outlook, rather than WA Site Email, then I cannot cannot comment further as I know nothing about that process in Outlook. Depending on how the Outlook process works it could be that you need an smtp plugin and smtp mail service.
Thanks for chipping in. The issue is something different. It is about setting up DKIM records.
Carson's Enhancing Email Security with DMARC on Wealthy Affiliate Domains Please reach out to site support.
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/websites/support
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Dear WA community,
I notice that when I share my blog post URLs or website domain on Whatsapp, neither my website logo or the featured image is showing. It works when I
Kindly let us know if you were able to resolve it or need additional assistance. Thank you Richard.
I asked ChatGPT, these are the steps to follow
Install and activate AIO SEO: Ensure that you have installed and activated the All in One SEO plugin on your WordPress website.
Access AIO SEO settings: In your WordPress dashboard, go to the All in One SEO tab, usually located on the left-hand side menu. Click on it to access the AIO SEO settings.
Configure Open Graph settings: Within the AIO SEO settings, look for the "Social Meta" or "Social Settings" section. This is where you can customize your Open Graph settings.
Set default image: In the Open Graph settings, you will have an option to set a default image. This image will be used when there is no specific featured image assigned to a post or page.
Customize metadata: You can also customize the Open Graph metadata for your posts and pages individually. When creating or editing a post, scroll down to the AIO SEO section below the content editor. You will find fields to enter the title, description, and image specifically for Open Graph.
Save your changes: Make sure to save your settings after configuring the Open Graph options.
Sometimes helpful other times outdated. One must check the validity of info given by it. But yeah overall, useful for brainstorming and ideas to use as a tool
Hey Richard,
Being as nothing has worked for you this far, I decided to try Google searching your question. It appears that you are not the only one suffering from this same issue. See screen print below...
You may it to your advantage to run the same search and read through what others have tried. Perhaps one technique that has been shared might work for you.
Also... it MIGHT be your SEO plugin that is causing this issue. AIOSEO has dropped off being the number 1 SEO plugin for a few years now.
If that turns out to be your issue, you may have to change plugins. Rank Math makes it sooooo simple to switch over to theirs from AIOSEO... just so you know.
Hope you find this helpful.
There are also free image sizers online and some of them will resize your image for various sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites. Generally, they all follow a very close format. https://www.google.com/search?q=image+sizer+online&rlz=1C1JSBI_enUS1064US1064&oq=image+sizer+online&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i10i433i512j0i10i512l8.4149j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Hi David, thanks. I understand that the image should be at least 300 x 300 px from what I have read. But my images are bigger than that already.
if you edit the post at the bottom in the seo section you will find a social section and this is what is displayed for the opengraph information....
the default open graph information is found in your seo section in the sidebar....
Thanks Phil,
But it didn't work for my case...
In the Social Network settings in the AIO SEO plugin, I have set it as Featured Image.
In the blog post Social section, I have tried Default Image Source (Set in Social Networks), and also tried Featured Image in the Image Source dropdown menu. Both didn't work when I paste the URL on Whatsapp where no image shows up.
oh well - sorry it didn't fix it...
i hope you manage to get a solution soon...
have you tried searching the plugin directory for a solution...
having a quick look around - is the size of image you are showing in the order of 256x256 to 400x400 and less than 300kb...
and any og image data whatsapp will take the last one in the list....
so maybe if you can select an image in the seo data for that post you can have one in that size to see if it shares...
make sure there are no spaces in the filename - replace spaces with either underscore or dash....and make sure the full url is included https://.......
inspect the meta data by viewing the post and press ctrl+u - a new tab will open - find ( ctrl+f) og:image and search for the last one....
and if minifying the data it maybe removing the " " around the image url - these are needed so if this is the case then it needs t obe excluded somehow....
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How to make website logo or featured image appear in whatsapp when I share my website blog url?
Dear WA community,
I notice that when I share my blog post URLs or website domain on Whatsapp, neither my website logo or the featured image is showing. It works when I
Kindly let us know if you were able to resolve it or need additional assistance. Thank you Richard.
I asked ChatGPT, these are the steps to follow
Install and activate AIO SEO: Ensure that you have installed and activated the All in One SEO plugin on your WordPress website.
Access AIO SEO settings: In your WordPress dashboard, go to the All in One SEO tab, usually located on the left-hand side menu. Click on it to access the AIO SEO settings.
Configure Open Graph settings: Within the AIO SEO settings, look for the "Social Meta" or "Social Settings" section. This is where you can customize your Open Graph settings.
Set default image: In the Open Graph settings, you will have an option to set a default image. This image will be used when there is no specific featured image assigned to a post or page.
Customize metadata: You can also customize the Open Graph metadata for your posts and pages individually. When creating or editing a post, scroll down to the AIO SEO section below the content editor. You will find fields to enter the title, description, and image specifically for Open Graph.
Save your changes: Make sure to save your settings after configuring the Open Graph options.
Sometimes helpful other times outdated. One must check the validity of info given by it. But yeah overall, useful for brainstorming and ideas to use as a tool
Hey Richard,
Being as nothing has worked for you this far, I decided to try Google searching your question. It appears that you are not the only one suffering from this same issue. See screen print below...
You may it to your advantage to run the same search and read through what others have tried. Perhaps one technique that has been shared might work for you.
Also... it MIGHT be your SEO plugin that is causing this issue. AIOSEO has dropped off being the number 1 SEO plugin for a few years now.
If that turns out to be your issue, you may have to change plugins. Rank Math makes it sooooo simple to switch over to theirs from AIOSEO... just so you know.
Hope you find this helpful.
There are also free image sizers online and some of them will resize your image for various sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites. Generally, they all follow a very close format. https://www.google.com/search?q=image+sizer+online&rlz=1C1JSBI_enUS1064US1064&oq=image+sizer+online&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i10i433i512j0i10i512l8.4149j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Hi David, thanks. I understand that the image should be at least 300 x 300 px from what I have read. But my images are bigger than that already.
if you edit the post at the bottom in the seo section you will find a social section and this is what is displayed for the opengraph information....
the default open graph information is found in your seo section in the sidebar....
Thanks Phil,
But it didn't work for my case...
In the Social Network settings in the AIO SEO plugin, I have set it as Featured Image.
In the blog post Social section, I have tried Default Image Source (Set in Social Networks), and also tried Featured Image in the Image Source dropdown menu. Both didn't work when I paste the URL on Whatsapp where no image shows up.
oh well - sorry it didn't fix it...
i hope you manage to get a solution soon...
have you tried searching the plugin directory for a solution...
having a quick look around - is the size of image you are showing in the order of 256x256 to 400x400 and less than 300kb...
and any og image data whatsapp will take the last one in the list....
so maybe if you can select an image in the seo data for that post you can have one in that size to see if it shares...
make sure there are no spaces in the filename - replace spaces with either underscore or dash....and make sure the full url is included https://.......
inspect the meta data by viewing the post and press ctrl+u - a new tab will open - find ( ctrl+f) og:image and search for the last one....
and if minifying the data it maybe removing the " " around the image url - these are needed so if this is the case then it needs t obe excluded somehow....
See more comments
I never use Site Content. It’s easier to create everything in a blank post/page in the Block Editor.
I would just copy WA AI generated content from Site Content to the Block Editor, save it as a draft, and go back to edit and publish at your convenience.
Thus works especially well if you’re using the WA AI bulk writer.
Frank 🎸
Thanks Frank. I think I prefer this too.
On publishing directly via site content, I think the only benefit seems to be we can track whether the post has been indexed or not. I do not know how useful is that actually.
Its just abit annoying there are many drafts when we don't publish from site content.
You can always check in GSC to see if your post was indexed and ranked.
Frank 🎸