Good day to you and Happy Valentines day!
I'm considering taking the idea to offer my site in Spanish as well as English because there would be MUCH less competition an
From what you write, this would mean different physical versions of the same post on the site. Not sure if plugins would do this for you.
But you can use a translate plugin that will show almost any language version to your visitor based on his/her detected IP address. In this case you have no way to control how it is translated and what it shows. I used this and removed later, do not remember why.
Hmm, I wonder why you removed it! But is does mean that it's something I could 'try out' without being too scared of it doing damage. . .
I'm still reading all about it and a bit out of my depth - but I'll keep on investigating.
Actually, maybe I'll install a plugin on my test site now, having read this.
Thank you Jovo!
Soraya
Hi Soraya. Yes - my site is in English and translated into Russian. I used Google translate which wasn't the best of ideas.
The ideal way to do it is to have a Spanish flag at the top of your site. You often see it on websites and when you click on it translates the whole site to the chosen language. Put some tags in Spanish on your site too for Google to index.
Sorry, I can't help further. I'm sure others will jump in with far greater knowledge than I do to answer your question.
Paul
Yeah, Sorayacge. It's still on and ranks on Google's first page for my keywords. I'm too lazy to change it lolz.
Paul
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Have you got a multi-lingual site?
Good day to you and Happy Valentines day!
I'm considering taking the idea to offer my site in Spanish as well as English because there would be MUCH less competition an
Depending on your audience and who | what you are marketing to? Does location matters? Is your business more dependent on local marketing?
You may follow up on the below resource
https://wpml.org/community/2018/07/multilingual-business-website/
You may also follow Jay's webinars for local marketing.
As far as the how-to
https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-easily-create-a-multilingual-wordpress-site/
https://weglot.com/how-to-create-a-bilingual-website/
https://neilpatel.com/blog/international-seo/
Hi Abie,
Thanks for the resources which I will go and check out!
I assume you haven't got a multi language site yourself?
Thank you!
Soraya
From what you write, this would mean different physical versions of the same post on the site. Not sure if plugins would do this for you.
But you can use a translate plugin that will show almost any language version to your visitor based on his/her detected IP address. In this case you have no way to control how it is translated and what it shows. I used this and removed later, do not remember why.
Hmm, I wonder why you removed it! But is does mean that it's something I could 'try out' without being too scared of it doing damage. . .
I'm still reading all about it and a bit out of my depth - but I'll keep on investigating.
Actually, maybe I'll install a plugin on my test site now, having read this.
Thank you Jovo!
Soraya
Hi Soraya. Yes - my site is in English and translated into Russian. I used Google translate which wasn't the best of ideas.
The ideal way to do it is to have a Spanish flag at the top of your site. You often see it on websites and when you click on it translates the whole site to the chosen language. Put some tags in Spanish on your site too for Google to index.
Sorry, I can't help further. I'm sure others will jump in with far greater knowledge than I do to answer your question.
Paul
Yeah, Sorayacge. It's still on and ranks on Google's first page for my keywords. I'm too lazy to change it lolz.
Paul
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I thought that adding a meta tag to the homepage would be the same as verifying the site ownership for Google analytics for example - adding a tag to the head section - but it
I keep the lines green.
Tutorials SEO Knowledge: Meta Title SEO Knowledge: Meta Description If you are on mobile, adding one or two characters, then delete you are able to.
If title and tagline (Just another WordPress site), settings > general edit and save changes. Setting Your Website Up for Search Engines (Using The SEO Framework)
Hi Abie, it isn't the meta title or meta description I'm looking for, it's putting a meta tag on my homepage when my homepage has the recent blogs rolling on it.
So I don't know where to go to add the meta tag.
Most likely no need for plugins.
Try this:
AIO General Settings, Webmaster Tools, scroll down to Miscellaneous Verification, this is the area where you should add various codes for such verifications.
Alternative if you use GP Premium theme, Appearance, Elements, Header, then probably choose Hook etc.
I do use GP but it says there are no elements found when I go there. Same with AIO general settings - just the licence key.
It should be a simple thing. On any other page I could just scroll down to AIO and add the meta tag but it's the homepage and it isn't static, so where do I access it to edit it? I mean it isn't actually a page but a place for the blog roll so I don't know where to access it in edit form.
In GP this is only in Premium version I think. Elements should be enabled, just one click, see screensho1
In aio, see the two screesnhost, it should be there. Let me know if you find these things.
I think terminology they use is confusing. This is not the usual meta tag/description which you are mentioning for posts and pages, so this is not something to edit of that type.
It does not matter static home page or not. Such things are under AIO, Search Appearance, Global Setting, scroll down and you will see meta description for home page.
But this is not what you need here. This is about some code verification.
Yes you're right, this is a meta tag to identify that it's my page for an affiliate program - flexoffers - do you know them? It seems like an easy addition to use for my site. I have emailed them but so far no response.
Now to the images, yes I have both of those, just not sure after that. If I click on elements in GP I see this. . .(and yes it's premium)
It is probably easier in AIO because you should only paste the code in that window which I shown (and save of curse).
In Elements, click Add New Element, then you have options, choose Header or Hook. I think both will give the same result, so try one. This is just to create a place to add such a verification code.
There will be then option to choose in Display Rules, so probably you can choose Home Page option. After that save.
This is a great addition in WP, I used it for Pinterest verifications and a few other things
Oh that’s great! I would never have realized that! Thanks so much Jovo, I will give it a try later when I’m back at the computer.
Hey Soraya,
In checking your profile for your website URL, I noticed you don't have your list of links, so I'm unable to see exactly which plugins your site uses; therefore I can only make a suggestion...
If your SEO plugin does not offer you an option to add the necessary meta tag, you could use a Headers and Footers plugin. See screen print below...
Hope you find this helpful.
Hi Trish, thank you for your response! However, I already tried adding it to headers section and it wasn't right. That was my question - where to add a meta tag on the home page if not to the header/footer?
if you goto seo in the left side bar when in your site dashboard you will be in the seo plugin options....
you will find in the list home page - goto this and add hte meta description...
if you have set a static home page then you can goto that page and add hte meta description...
and save ...
and you are done...
Hi, thanks but I'm not sure I follow you. I had a look at AIOSEO but I don't see the home page option you refer to.
if you are using aio then it is different to the seo framework....
this is where it is getting confusing helping people...
in all in one there is a tab down the side for the home page - search appearance...
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How to add a meta tag to homepage?
I thought that adding a meta tag to the homepage would be the same as verifying the site ownership for Google analytics for example - adding a tag to the head section - but it
I keep the lines green.
Tutorials SEO Knowledge: Meta Title SEO Knowledge: Meta Description If you are on mobile, adding one or two characters, then delete you are able to.
If title and tagline (Just another WordPress site), settings > general edit and save changes. Setting Your Website Up for Search Engines (Using The SEO Framework)
Hi Abie, it isn't the meta title or meta description I'm looking for, it's putting a meta tag on my homepage when my homepage has the recent blogs rolling on it.
So I don't know where to go to add the meta tag.
Most likely no need for plugins.
Try this:
AIO General Settings, Webmaster Tools, scroll down to Miscellaneous Verification, this is the area where you should add various codes for such verifications.
Alternative if you use GP Premium theme, Appearance, Elements, Header, then probably choose Hook etc.
I do use GP but it says there are no elements found when I go there. Same with AIO general settings - just the licence key.
It should be a simple thing. On any other page I could just scroll down to AIO and add the meta tag but it's the homepage and it isn't static, so where do I access it to edit it? I mean it isn't actually a page but a place for the blog roll so I don't know where to access it in edit form.
In GP this is only in Premium version I think. Elements should be enabled, just one click, see screensho1
In aio, see the two screesnhost, it should be there. Let me know if you find these things.
I think terminology they use is confusing. This is not the usual meta tag/description which you are mentioning for posts and pages, so this is not something to edit of that type.
It does not matter static home page or not. Such things are under AIO, Search Appearance, Global Setting, scroll down and you will see meta description for home page.
But this is not what you need here. This is about some code verification.
Yes you're right, this is a meta tag to identify that it's my page for an affiliate program - flexoffers - do you know them? It seems like an easy addition to use for my site. I have emailed them but so far no response.
Now to the images, yes I have both of those, just not sure after that. If I click on elements in GP I see this. . .(and yes it's premium)
It is probably easier in AIO because you should only paste the code in that window which I shown (and save of curse).
In Elements, click Add New Element, then you have options, choose Header or Hook. I think both will give the same result, so try one. This is just to create a place to add such a verification code.
There will be then option to choose in Display Rules, so probably you can choose Home Page option. After that save.
This is a great addition in WP, I used it for Pinterest verifications and a few other things
Oh that’s great! I would never have realized that! Thanks so much Jovo, I will give it a try later when I’m back at the computer.
Hey Soraya,
In checking your profile for your website URL, I noticed you don't have your list of links, so I'm unable to see exactly which plugins your site uses; therefore I can only make a suggestion...
If your SEO plugin does not offer you an option to add the necessary meta tag, you could use a Headers and Footers plugin. See screen print below...
Hope you find this helpful.
Hi Trish, thank you for your response! However, I already tried adding it to headers section and it wasn't right. That was my question - where to add a meta tag on the home page if not to the header/footer?
if you goto seo in the left side bar when in your site dashboard you will be in the seo plugin options....
you will find in the list home page - goto this and add hte meta description...
if you have set a static home page then you can goto that page and add hte meta description...
and save ...
and you are done...
Hi, thanks but I'm not sure I follow you. I had a look at AIOSEO but I don't see the home page option you refer to.
if you are using aio then it is different to the seo framework....
this is where it is getting confusing helping people...
in all in one there is a tab down the side for the home page - search appearance...
See more comments
It snuck up on me somehow.
I published an article on the 11th November and now I see that the URL is too long - it's included the whole title instead of the keyword alo
Hey Soraya,
Having done EXACTLY the same thing in the past, what I did was create a redirect for the "too long of a URL" to the newly edited, shorted URL.
All Google cares is that once their spider software has indexed your post that you create a redirect when editing the URLs of your posts/pages.
Hope you find this helpful.
Hiya Trish,
Very helpful! Thank you!
Good to know it happened to you too lol!!
Have a great week!
Soraya :)
You can edit All except changing the URL if the URL changes to Google it would be an new post, any ranking that has been done would be lost.
However I see you Partha got you covered here.
Hi Abie,
Yes, exactly, hence the question in the first place. . .
But as it's only a recent post on a site with not a lot of traffic, I was considering resubmitting it to Google with a shortened URL.
But I'm very happy with Partha's answer, it's the best solution.
Thanks! Have a great week!
Soraya :)
Hey Soraya,
My advice - Don't worry about it.
I've done this on a few occasions myself, but I never let it worry me.
Will it make a difference in terms of SEO?
Perhaps!
Can the article still rank and bring in lots of traffic?
Of course, if the CONTENT is good enough, you will be rewarded.
Here's another way to look at it, especially when you're a few years down the line.
Your website has 2,000 articles on it, is the fact that ONE article is NOT doing that great, and the other 1,999 are doing fantastic, really going to worry you?
I do think this is a mindset a lot of people have online, and it is just another form of "perfectionism".
Perfectionism in turn leads to overthinking, which in turn leads to procrastination.
In the grand scheme of things how much does ONE article really matter?
Of course, I'm not saying to be slap-dash with your content production and not to worry about anything.
However, overthinking what ONE article may or may not do is bound to bring your productivity screeching to a halt.
This is especially true if you personally think that this is one of the best articles you've ever written, and then you've "ruined" it with one silly little mistake.
Personally, there's no rhyme nor reason to this.
Some of my best ever articles (in my mind) have barely had 10 visits in a year, whereas articles that I haven't even put much thought into, written and published within 40 minutes, have regularly produced over 5,000 visitors per month.
Yes, you can change the url, create redirects, etc.
But hey, if the content is GOOD, and something that people in your niche are interested in, don't sweat it.
Partha
Thanks Partha,
Perfect!
My initial reaction was to do nothing and not worry about it, or to cut it down and also not worry about it haha (i.e. not make re-directs) because of the low traffic so I guess it wouldn't have much impact anyway.
But I'm extremely happy to read your answer, which makes total sense.
I'm currently trying to train myself to be more masterful at producing MORE content and faster, so faffing around about this would definitely feed my already very skilled ability to Procrastinate!!😂😂
It's very interesting that your high traffic posts aren't necessarily the ones you think are the best ones you've written. That's really great food for thought.
Have a great week!
Soraya :)
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What do you think, should I strip the url now or is it too late?
It snuck up on me somehow.
I published an article on the 11th November and now I see that the URL is too long - it's included the whole title instead of the keyword alo
Hey Soraya,
Having done EXACTLY the same thing in the past, what I did was create a redirect for the "too long of a URL" to the newly edited, shorted URL.
All Google cares is that once their spider software has indexed your post that you create a redirect when editing the URLs of your posts/pages.
Hope you find this helpful.
Hiya Trish,
Very helpful! Thank you!
Good to know it happened to you too lol!!
Have a great week!
Soraya :)
You can edit All except changing the URL if the URL changes to Google it would be an new post, any ranking that has been done would be lost.
However I see you Partha got you covered here.
Hi Abie,
Yes, exactly, hence the question in the first place. . .
But as it's only a recent post on a site with not a lot of traffic, I was considering resubmitting it to Google with a shortened URL.
But I'm very happy with Partha's answer, it's the best solution.
Thanks! Have a great week!
Soraya :)
Hey Soraya,
My advice - Don't worry about it.
I've done this on a few occasions myself, but I never let it worry me.
Will it make a difference in terms of SEO?
Perhaps!
Can the article still rank and bring in lots of traffic?
Of course, if the CONTENT is good enough, you will be rewarded.
Here's another way to look at it, especially when you're a few years down the line.
Your website has 2,000 articles on it, is the fact that ONE article is NOT doing that great, and the other 1,999 are doing fantastic, really going to worry you?
I do think this is a mindset a lot of people have online, and it is just another form of "perfectionism".
Perfectionism in turn leads to overthinking, which in turn leads to procrastination.
In the grand scheme of things how much does ONE article really matter?
Of course, I'm not saying to be slap-dash with your content production and not to worry about anything.
However, overthinking what ONE article may or may not do is bound to bring your productivity screeching to a halt.
This is especially true if you personally think that this is one of the best articles you've ever written, and then you've "ruined" it with one silly little mistake.
Personally, there's no rhyme nor reason to this.
Some of my best ever articles (in my mind) have barely had 10 visits in a year, whereas articles that I haven't even put much thought into, written and published within 40 minutes, have regularly produced over 5,000 visitors per month.
Yes, you can change the url, create redirects, etc.
But hey, if the content is GOOD, and something that people in your niche are interested in, don't sweat it.
Partha
Thanks Partha,
Perfect!
My initial reaction was to do nothing and not worry about it, or to cut it down and also not worry about it haha (i.e. not make re-directs) because of the low traffic so I guess it wouldn't have much impact anyway.
But I'm extremely happy to read your answer, which makes total sense.
I'm currently trying to train myself to be more masterful at producing MORE content and faster, so faffing around about this would definitely feed my already very skilled ability to Procrastinate!!😂😂
It's very interesting that your high traffic posts aren't necessarily the ones you think are the best ones you've written. That's really great food for thought.
Have a great week!
Soraya :)
See more comments
EDIT: Thank you for your answers. I recently paid someone to sort out my site speed and the guy installed a few new plugins, one of which was WebP Express and it was this plugi
Hi Soraya
Having read through all the comments... if nothing's worked so far then in your shoes I'd contact site support...
:-)
Richard
Hi Richard, did you see my update/edit to the original question? It seems it was caused by WebP Express which was installed by the site-speed-guy. Do you think 83 is an acceptable mobile speed or is it still too low in your opinion?
Thanks! :)
Soraya
Hi Soraya .. my mobile speed is between 92 and 99. 83 seems a bit low to me but... The time of day and cache make a difference. If 83 is the slowest that should be ok.
;-)
Richard
By the way... I have no experience of WebP Express yet but I use Optimole because it copies images to a CDN and delivers WebP from 200 servers around the world.
:-)
Richard
Ok, I better go and look this up because I don't know what that means! I'll check out Optimole and see if I can get an idea of what it's about. Thank you!
Soraya :)
P.S When I retested, the site was 94 so I felt a bit better about that!
94 is perfectly acceptable.
Optimize is deceptively easy to set up. Ask if there's anything that isn't clear.
:-)
Richard
Hi Jason,
I'm not sure if I'm the right person to ask, as I have youtube embeds directly within my articles just by using the embed block - and I haven't had (touch wood) any speed issues linked to that.
For the image optimisation I use Imagify and I also have WP rocket installed.
Hope this helps and/or you find the solutions you need!
All the best,
Soraya
Hello,
Thank you for such a quick response.
The other night when I finally got SiteKit installed it was rating my site poorly on speed. I finally had to go through each page one at a time and it turns out to be mostly from embedding Youube videos.
I deleted most of the YouTube videos and as soon as I did, those pages went from being rated in the 60's to being rated in the 90's.
This is for mobile of course, on desktop the site was showing a good speed.
I really want to embed these videos, so need to figure out a workaround. I'm not sure what role theme plays, or plugins that might aid with the mobile speed.
I'm still pretty ignorant on the tech side of all of this, but once i get it figured out I have the being wordy part nailed down as you can see. :)
Happy New Year.
Regards,
Jason
Hi Jason
It's never too late to come back with more questions! that's OK.
Now... I recommend trying this...
Install a plugin called "LazyLoad Plugin" ... it's free from the Jetpack people and just handles lazyloading...
In case you don't know... Lazy loading is used to delay the rendering of assets like images and videos until after the initial loading of the site thereby speeding up the initial load time.
In the LazyLoad Plugin you can select whether you want to lazy load images and/or videos. There's also an option to show a clickable image of Youtube based videos rather than the video itself.
Personally I use Optimole for lazy loading images (and the "LazyLoad Plugin" just for videos) because...
Most image lazy load facilities aren't selective. i,e, they lazy load all images which means that any images that you want to load fast (above the "fold" on your website) are delayed a little as well which is OK for Google but less so for users. With Optimole you can lazy load all images if you wish or allow the first few images to load straight away. I have it set to lazy load images after the first 3.
Does this makes sense to you?
:-)
Richard
That's interesting, it could actually be the case on my site too now you say that. I mean Site Kit doesn't actually work on my site so I don't get to see that.
I'm so not tech it's frustrating - and I've just had a site audit come back with a warning that there are lots more new errors that need fixing. It really does seem never ending. . .
I'd be very interested to know what solution you find when you find it, if you think of it lol!
Good luck with the fix!
And a happy new year to you!
Soraya
If you want to start investigating on your own, you can do your own audit. Here is the link to the site Google uses.
https://pagespeed.web.dev/
I want to offer some advice. I notice in my questions several folks were weighing in by simply using that site or
https://gtmetrix.com/
with the home page.
my observations is they are only evaluating the one page. And for GTmetrix, they only offer mobile to Canadian residents, which is where most issues with speed come into play.
To get a real understanding of what pages are affecting your entire site speed score you will need to input the url of each page as I did to know which pages are causing the issues.
This will help you in eliminating, because you can look to the problem pages and look for what is different about them from the other pages.
In my case, with the exception of the privacy page, the commonality that separated them were YouTube embeds. Deleting most of the videos made those respective pages really fast again when I went to check after deletion.
Best of luck in figuring it out.
Regards,
Jason
Thanks Jason,
I can see from the audit by Semrush which are the slow pages and it also tells me the issue with each one. Problem is, I don't know what to do with that information.
32 uncompressed JavaScript and CSS files - I have the plugins but still have the issue.
28 pages have a low text/HTML ratio
Most are long articles, so this one doesn't make sense to me either.
But hey ho, it's just another one of those 'things' that I have to figure out!! Good luck with yours too!
Soraya
Soraya,
Guess what? You aren't the only one with this issue it happened to me too.
I thought I have to redo all images again but Trish gave a solution
The solution is this How to Clear the Cache on WA Hosted Websites Once I did that and rebooted my laptop it came back with images still there whew so that worked.
If that doesn't work time to submit a ticket to Site Support to restore them for you.
Let me know if this works.
Hi Brenda,
Thanks for your message, I've tried it but no change unfortunately. I'm guessing it's an issue with a plugin or from the recent wordpress update.
Soraya
Hahahaha thank you Jeff,
And of course that would be quite possible - but thankfully this time I didn't.
Last time (as you might already know) I DID actually delete a whole bunch!
But not this time! :)
Soraya
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Why have all my images disappeared?
EDIT: Thank you for your answers. I recently paid someone to sort out my site speed and the guy installed a few new plugins, one of which was WebP Express and it was this plugi
Hi Soraya
Having read through all the comments... if nothing's worked so far then in your shoes I'd contact site support...
:-)
Richard
Hi Richard, did you see my update/edit to the original question? It seems it was caused by WebP Express which was installed by the site-speed-guy. Do you think 83 is an acceptable mobile speed or is it still too low in your opinion?
Thanks! :)
Soraya
Hi Soraya .. my mobile speed is between 92 and 99. 83 seems a bit low to me but... The time of day and cache make a difference. If 83 is the slowest that should be ok.
;-)
Richard
By the way... I have no experience of WebP Express yet but I use Optimole because it copies images to a CDN and delivers WebP from 200 servers around the world.
:-)
Richard
Ok, I better go and look this up because I don't know what that means! I'll check out Optimole and see if I can get an idea of what it's about. Thank you!
Soraya :)
P.S When I retested, the site was 94 so I felt a bit better about that!
94 is perfectly acceptable.
Optimize is deceptively easy to set up. Ask if there's anything that isn't clear.
:-)
Richard
Hi Jason,
I'm not sure if I'm the right person to ask, as I have youtube embeds directly within my articles just by using the embed block - and I haven't had (touch wood) any speed issues linked to that.
For the image optimisation I use Imagify and I also have WP rocket installed.
Hope this helps and/or you find the solutions you need!
All the best,
Soraya
Hello,
Thank you for such a quick response.
The other night when I finally got SiteKit installed it was rating my site poorly on speed. I finally had to go through each page one at a time and it turns out to be mostly from embedding Youube videos.
I deleted most of the YouTube videos and as soon as I did, those pages went from being rated in the 60's to being rated in the 90's.
This is for mobile of course, on desktop the site was showing a good speed.
I really want to embed these videos, so need to figure out a workaround. I'm not sure what role theme plays, or plugins that might aid with the mobile speed.
I'm still pretty ignorant on the tech side of all of this, but once i get it figured out I have the being wordy part nailed down as you can see. :)
Happy New Year.
Regards,
Jason
Hi Jason
It's never too late to come back with more questions! that's OK.
Now... I recommend trying this...
Install a plugin called "LazyLoad Plugin" ... it's free from the Jetpack people and just handles lazyloading...
In case you don't know... Lazy loading is used to delay the rendering of assets like images and videos until after the initial loading of the site thereby speeding up the initial load time.
In the LazyLoad Plugin you can select whether you want to lazy load images and/or videos. There's also an option to show a clickable image of Youtube based videos rather than the video itself.
Personally I use Optimole for lazy loading images (and the "LazyLoad Plugin" just for videos) because...
Most image lazy load facilities aren't selective. i,e, they lazy load all images which means that any images that you want to load fast (above the "fold" on your website) are delayed a little as well which is OK for Google but less so for users. With Optimole you can lazy load all images if you wish or allow the first few images to load straight away. I have it set to lazy load images after the first 3.
Does this makes sense to you?
:-)
Richard
That's interesting, it could actually be the case on my site too now you say that. I mean Site Kit doesn't actually work on my site so I don't get to see that.
I'm so not tech it's frustrating - and I've just had a site audit come back with a warning that there are lots more new errors that need fixing. It really does seem never ending. . .
I'd be very interested to know what solution you find when you find it, if you think of it lol!
Good luck with the fix!
And a happy new year to you!
Soraya
If you want to start investigating on your own, you can do your own audit. Here is the link to the site Google uses.
https://pagespeed.web.dev/
I want to offer some advice. I notice in my questions several folks were weighing in by simply using that site or
https://gtmetrix.com/
with the home page.
my observations is they are only evaluating the one page. And for GTmetrix, they only offer mobile to Canadian residents, which is where most issues with speed come into play.
To get a real understanding of what pages are affecting your entire site speed score you will need to input the url of each page as I did to know which pages are causing the issues.
This will help you in eliminating, because you can look to the problem pages and look for what is different about them from the other pages.
In my case, with the exception of the privacy page, the commonality that separated them were YouTube embeds. Deleting most of the videos made those respective pages really fast again when I went to check after deletion.
Best of luck in figuring it out.
Regards,
Jason
Thanks Jason,
I can see from the audit by Semrush which are the slow pages and it also tells me the issue with each one. Problem is, I don't know what to do with that information.
32 uncompressed JavaScript and CSS files - I have the plugins but still have the issue.
28 pages have a low text/HTML ratio
Most are long articles, so this one doesn't make sense to me either.
But hey ho, it's just another one of those 'things' that I have to figure out!! Good luck with yours too!
Soraya
Soraya,
Guess what? You aren't the only one with this issue it happened to me too.
I thought I have to redo all images again but Trish gave a solution
The solution is this How to Clear the Cache on WA Hosted Websites Once I did that and rebooted my laptop it came back with images still there whew so that worked.
If that doesn't work time to submit a ticket to Site Support to restore them for you.
Let me know if this works.
Hi Brenda,
Thanks for your message, I've tried it but no change unfortunately. I'm guessing it's an issue with a plugin or from the recent wordpress update.
Soraya
Hahahaha thank you Jeff,
And of course that would be quite possible - but thankfully this time I didn't.
Last time (as you might already know) I DID actually delete a whole bunch!
But not this time! :)
Soraya
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Edit: I deleted the staging site.
Good afternoon . . .
So I set up a staging site while trying to change theme and now I'm trying to decide what the best way forwar
If you have used the MOVE feature, you don't have to delete your old website right away. The MOVE feature will properly redirect your old website to your new website (all the pages, etc) so it passes on the SEO juice.
If you have a staging version that is a running duplicate of your website, you can delete that if you no longer need it. :)
Hi thanks Kyle,
I didn't use the Move feature in the end because while I was working on the staging site I also added new material to the original site.
So instead I used the staging site to explore everything and then I manually copied the settings over to my original site.
So now I have two sites with the same basic info, which I can imagine is very handy for testing in the future but at the same time, what if Google discovered it despite the 'discourage search engines' being ticked on. That would be a disaster. So should I delete it or go to the trouble of replacing the text with lorem ipsum? Or just leave it as it is?
Thank you!
Soraya
Have you moved it to your main or you did nothing?
i.e.
Have you applied the move feature found your site manager? If yes may not want to delete it as yet.
Hi Soraya,
There is a website setting that hides it from search engines. I don't remember where at the moment. I had a test site for a while and I hid it from the search engines to prevent the duplicate content problem.
Marsha
Yes, I've done that, but it only 'requests' the search engines to ignore it and it's up to the search engines to respect it. And that makes me feel a bit unsure about its security. Maybe it's fine and doesn't mean anything, or maybe it means it's not 100% effective.
Thanks for commenting!
Soraya
If you are done, you could.
You can always get going with a siterubix subdomain and for testing purpose kinda thing.
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Should I delete my staging site because of possible duplicate content?
Edit: I deleted the staging site.
Good afternoon . . .
So I set up a staging site while trying to change theme and now I'm trying to decide what the best way forwar
If you have used the MOVE feature, you don't have to delete your old website right away. The MOVE feature will properly redirect your old website to your new website (all the pages, etc) so it passes on the SEO juice.
If you have a staging version that is a running duplicate of your website, you can delete that if you no longer need it. :)
Hi thanks Kyle,
I didn't use the Move feature in the end because while I was working on the staging site I also added new material to the original site.
So instead I used the staging site to explore everything and then I manually copied the settings over to my original site.
So now I have two sites with the same basic info, which I can imagine is very handy for testing in the future but at the same time, what if Google discovered it despite the 'discourage search engines' being ticked on. That would be a disaster. So should I delete it or go to the trouble of replacing the text with lorem ipsum? Or just leave it as it is?
Thank you!
Soraya
Have you moved it to your main or you did nothing?
i.e.
Have you applied the move feature found your site manager? If yes may not want to delete it as yet.
Hi Soraya,
There is a website setting that hides it from search engines. I don't remember where at the moment. I had a test site for a while and I hid it from the search engines to prevent the duplicate content problem.
Marsha
Yes, I've done that, but it only 'requests' the search engines to ignore it and it's up to the search engines to respect it. And that makes me feel a bit unsure about its security. Maybe it's fine and doesn't mean anything, or maybe it means it's not 100% effective.
Thanks for commenting!
Soraya
If you are done, you could.
You can always get going with a siterubix subdomain and for testing purpose kinda thing.
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Depending on your audience and who | what you are marketing to? Does location matters? Is your business more dependent on local marketing?
You may follow up on the below resource
https://wpml.org/community/2018/07/multilingual-business-website/
You may also follow Jay's webinars for local marketing.
As far as the how-to
https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-easily-create-a-multilingual-wordpress-site/
https://weglot.com/how-to-create-a-bilingual-website/
https://neilpatel.com/blog/international-seo/
Hi Abie,
Thanks for the resources which I will go and check out!
I assume you haven't got a multi language site yourself?
Thank you!
Soraya