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Hey everyone,
I'm thinking of incorporating a payment gateway within my website for some sort of a subscription.
In that case, I'm sure I need to update my Privac
Yeah, I'll figure it out, no worries.
Just thought I might find something here within the platform, especially because Kyle does mention in the training the prospect of updating the Privacy Policy page later down the line in the event that we consider such additions.
Hello Yusuf,
Check out Woo-commerce plug in or there are also subscription based plug in as well just search that term in your plug ins in your dashboard , some are free basic features.
Wishing you all the best :)
Kind regards
Erica
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Privacy policy update – payment gateway?
Hey everyone,
I'm thinking of incorporating a payment gateway within my website for some sort of a subscription.
In that case, I'm sure I need to update my Privac
Yeah, I'll figure it out, no worries.
Just thought I might find something here within the platform, especially because Kyle does mention in the training the prospect of updating the Privacy Policy page later down the line in the event that we consider such additions.
Hello Yusuf,
Check out Woo-commerce plug in or there are also subscription based plug in as well just search that term in your plug ins in your dashboard , some are free basic features.
Wishing you all the best :)
Kind regards
Erica
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Hi everyone,
I've been checking my Google Analytics, and for a while now, I've been seeing a few sessions coming from ConvertKit.
Please see the screenshot in the
Google analytics – visitors from email?
Hi everyone,
I've been checking my Google Analytics, and for a while now, I've been seeing a few sessions coming from ConvertKit.
Please see the screenshot in the
Hi everyone,
I'm nearing my 8-month mark since I joined WA, so I'd like to share with you my progress and my game plan going forward. I would really appreciate any advic
Hey Yusuf,
I'm not gonna say well done (I bet everyone else does, LOL) because you're working so hard... because you're spreading yourself too thin.
I will speak on "the end of the Google updates" this week, not here, but you know where to find me.
Okay, pure and simple, the way things currently are your domain needs some authority in order to rank in Google.
Sure, some people are "slipping through the cracks", but in truth, a LOT of new websites are seeing an initial spike in rankings and traffic, and then everything is being deindexed further down the line.
Plus, if you look at the "success stories" and the "I've got Google traffic"... hmmmm.... it's not overly impressive!!
Yes, yes, yes, hahahaha!! I know "It's a marathon not a sprint", and "small wins count", blah, blah, blah, but these are just words that mean NOTHING!!!
Furthermore, many new sites started in the 2nd half of last year, either escaped the September 2023 HCU and got "hit" in March 2024, or got "hit" in both.
Basically, something that has always really been the case with Google, but has come even more to the fore over the past 8 months is, in order to rank for most keywords your domain needs some level of authority.
And ANYONE who says they are ranking fairly well for keywords in a newish site, ask them how much traffic they are getting!!! LOL!!
Rankings mean NOTHING if you're only getting 10, 50, 100 visitors per month.
Google recently changed their wording about "backlinks", basically removing the word "important" from their ranking documentation, but in truth, DON'T TRUST THEM, hahahaha!! Authority = backlinks = this is what is currently ranking.
Plus, just so you know, MANY course and membership creators online whose basic business model is blogging and SEO to rank in Google are currently getting called out as scammers, i.e. yeah, this stuff worked, but it clearly doesn't anymore, so why are you still selling it without completely changing your ideas!!
For your own way forward, you kinda have to return to what many of us were doing circa 2008-2012, "parasite" of high DA web 2.0 properties.
Now, before anyone starts going on about "parasite SEO" and "site reputation abuse", most web 2.0s have not been affected.
Sure, LinkedIn Pulse and Medium saw slight declines in traffic BEFORE the March Core Update, but there are still 1000s of % traffic increases for both platforms since last year.
Reddit (of course) has even seen a 25% increase in traffic DURING the March 2024 Core Update.
Anyway, here's what I would do if I were you.
Firstly, you're looking at Medium and Linkedin completely incorrectly.
Forget about followers, forget about being "social", forget about "using the platforms how they're supposed to be used"...
If Google wants to play games, why not beat them at their own game?
Currently, Medium and LinkedIn Pulse are ranking for a LOT!!!
Firstly, go through your 70 articles and do Google searches for your primary keyword for each article.
Make a note of any keywords that have Medium or Linkedin ranking in the TOP 20 places.
Do keyword research for new keywords (make sure to check page one of Google for your keywords and see if Medium or Linkedin are ranking)
HOWEVER
For BOTH of the above methods of checking, if you see ANY social networks or UGC sites (apart from Reddit and Quora) ranking on page one of Google, keep that keyword to write an article.
Now, what you're going to do is PARASITE OFF MEDIUM & LINKEDIN'S DOMAIN AUTHORITY.
In other words, you are going to write full articles, SEO-optimized (after your page one checks), and publish to these platforms.
Share these articles on Facebook (and any other social accounts you have, e.g. Twitter/X)
And do the above CONSISTENTLY (how you initially started writing articles on your website, do the same for these two platforms, e.g. 3-4 per week, more if possible. For Medium just use the import tool - https://medium.com/p/import - it provides a canonical link, so don't worry about "duplicate content", therefore you can get your 70 articles from your site to Medium in about 10 minutes per article - just copy and paste your images and videos)
Get your autoresponder set up, and write an email series of at least 10 emails to get yourself started.
A great way to do this is a 10-part series, e.g. My Top 10 Tips For ...
Include a link to your ebook in your email signature, but make it an enticing call to action and then anchor text your link.
So, as an example, your anchor text below your name may say something like
Discover How I Reached a 1500 Rating WITHOUT Studying Theory
And then that will be "linked" to your ebook.
Furthermore, inside your emails create a "PAID AD" section.
What you do is split your emails up to look like this:
Email Content
Email Content
Email Content
Email Content
Email Content
---------PAID AD---------
-----END OF PAID AD------
Email Content
Email Content
Email Content
Email Content
Email Content
Thanks For Reading
Yusuf
Discover How I Reached a 1500 Rating WITHOUT Studying Theory
The reason for this is you're getting your email subscribers used to an "ad" in your emails.
But, you can get around this on your first email:
"I'll regularly recommend products that i have used, which will help to elevate your game. You'll notice about half way down my emails I have a "paid ad" section, which is where you'll find my recommendations. Of course, if you just want to read my content skip the ad, but I just wanted to let you know I'll regularly be making recommendations of things that I know will work to increase your rating"
(obviously, write it better than that, hahahaha!! I just wrote that off the top of my head)
Do this for a few months an see what happens.
So, basically, content published to Medium and Linkedin Pulse, link from these articles to your landing page to collect email addresses, have some emails written up, and have an email signature for your ebook, and a "paid ad" section within your emails.
Continue to add content to your site, but say something like once a week is fine.
What you're doing here is keeping your website fresh with occasional content, while increasing links coming to your website from you "externally-written" articles, but once you've "gained some traction" on Medium and Linkedin, and your articles are ranking in the SERPs you are finally getting traffic to your email newsletter and your "offers".
And that is your 2024 business plan!!!!
THE END!!
Hahahahahahahaha!!
Partha
Thank you very much Partha, I'll keep your tips in mind and do my best to implement them.
There are two things I don't quite understand, though.
(1) You said I should link to my landing page from my Medium and LinkedIn articles to get subscriptions for my list, but you also said I should leave the link to my eBook in my email signature.
I'm selling the eBook, so what will the landing page be for? No lead magnet — just an invitation to subscribe to get valuable chess tips?
Or are you suggesting I give away a freebie other than the eBook? Perhaps a "chess move checklist" or something of the sort will do the trick?
(2) When talking about the Paid Ad section, you said:
"The reason for this is you're getting your email subscribers used to an ad in your emails."
Are you saying that I should initially fill this section up with some of my affiliate products to get my subscribers used to this structure until I start actually having ads?
I'm not very well-versed with this, but I assume people with thousands of subscribers approach companies willing to promote their products and services, and reserve a promotional section for them in their emails. Is that right?
Thanks again Partha.
1) I think it's a good idea for EVERYONE to have an email list, in truth, this is a good way to also get traffic to your website, i.e. occasionally, summarise an article you've written in an email, and then send your subscribers to the article via a link in your emails.
A lead magnet, yep, definitely, unless you're well-known in your niche and people are clambering to get information from you, they need a reason to sign up to your email newsletter.
As I've said above, your "lead magnet" DOESN'T have to be a downloadable giveaway, it could simply be a series of emails providing tips.
So, as an example, find a topic that you've perhaps written about on your site, or even over at chess .com, something that you know people in your niche are really interested in.
Okay, an example, I know nothing about chess really, so I won't even bother trying to give you an example about that.
But, let's say your niche is weight loss.
So, my first 10 emails could be "The 10 Greatest Life-Changing Weight Loss Tips You Need to See".
Then, email one deals with "metabolism", email two deals with "strength training", email 3 deals with "carbohydrates", email 4 deals with "cardio".
Essentially, I've written a 5,000 word article and then split it into 10 x 500-word parts<----these are your first 10 emails.
So, my "lead magnet" could just be these 10 emails, then again, if you want your subscribers to have something to download in the traditional way, you could convert that 5,000 word article into a PDF free giveaway ebook (increase font size so you're only getting about 300 words per page, and you've just created a 17-page free ebook to give away <--- think of your "free ebook" in terms of a long-form listicle article that you've just converted to PDF.
Don't forget that most PDF giveaways are often a few articles from your main website put together.
Whichever way you use to go you should have something to "entice" people to sign up to your newsletter.
Without coming across as arrogant (hahahahahaha)...
Imagine if you and I BOTH set up a landing page WITHOUT a free giveaway or something to entice INSIDE the email newsletter, who do think more people at WA are going to sign up for?
It doesn't mean my content will be better than yours, I'm just a better-known entity than you, so people are likely to already be "enticed" by me without even knowing what I have to offer.
So, as an unknown entity in your niche currently. you need to give people something to sign up to your newsletter.
2) You don't need to have a "paid ad" section, most people don't.
However, I actually find it comes across as more sincere.
You're basically saying, "I'll have product recommendations in every email, as well as some great informational content for you to read"
This could just be me, but most people will write a few informational emails and then hit you with a sales pitch, and then back to informational content.
Therefore, in much the same way as a blog, i.e. informational content, review, more informational content, another review, etc.
You can do your email series like this, I just like to be open and upfront all the time.
If I've got something to sell I'm going to tell you about it.
As for what to include if you do go this route, you've said you've written 5 reviews, so you could obviously have a small section in your emails promoting these.
Something else to do is find a few websites in your niche and sign up for their newsletters (go to Eric's Chess site and do that too).
Get yourself onto about 5-7 newsletters (open a fresh email account), by doing Google searches for keywords and seeing if there are PURELY CHESS-RELATED websites.
Reverse engineer what they're doing.
Did they have a landing page or just a sidebar widget or a pop-up on their site?
Did they offer a free lead magnet?
How often are they sending emails?
What is the content of these emails?
Do they have a "linked signature", a paid ads section, or do they promote in another way?
How long/short are the emails?
How often do they "promote" something?
What products are they promoting (their own/affiliate)?
This will give you a better idea of how to create your offer.
The only reason I mentioned the "paid ads" or offering affiliate products within your emails is because, while it's fantastic that you're creating your own product, how many sales are you going to have to make a month of a $5 product for it to seem "worthwhile"?
As Is say, gets some ideas from other webmasters in your niche, plus don't forget, once you have an email newsletter you can write what you want, say what you want, without worrying of being at the whim of a huge corporation trying to control you (Google).
All I've done above is give you some ideas, but the best way is usually just to reverse-engineer what your successful competitors are doing.
Thank you for your ideas, but they assume I have email addresses. How do I get email addresses?
Hi Yusuf
That’s a great strategy!
I recommend three things.
Don’t spread yourself out too thin.
Continue publishing content on your site.
Consider giving away your ebook as a lead magnet for an email list.
Frank 🎸
Thank you Frank.
I did consider the lead magnet idea as it's very common, but the thing is that I have nothing to sell to my email list.
I don't have any major service I'm offering or major product I'm selling, so it makes more sense to sell the eBook at this point, don't you think?
Hi Yusuf
You would know better than I since it’s your niche.
I would also consider selling your ebook on Amazon and other online platforms that make sense.
Frank 🎸
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My game plan going forward – any advice?
Hi everyone,
I'm nearing my 8-month mark since I joined WA, so I'd like to share with you my progress and my game plan going forward. I would really appreciate any advic
Hey Yusuf,
I'm not gonna say well done (I bet everyone else does, LOL) because you're working so hard... because you're spreading yourself too thin.
I will speak on "the end of the Google updates" this week, not here, but you know where to find me.
Okay, pure and simple, the way things currently are your domain needs some authority in order to rank in Google.
Sure, some people are "slipping through the cracks", but in truth, a LOT of new websites are seeing an initial spike in rankings and traffic, and then everything is being deindexed further down the line.
Plus, if you look at the "success stories" and the "I've got Google traffic"... hmmmm.... it's not overly impressive!!
Yes, yes, yes, hahahaha!! I know "It's a marathon not a sprint", and "small wins count", blah, blah, blah, but these are just words that mean NOTHING!!!
Furthermore, many new sites started in the 2nd half of last year, either escaped the September 2023 HCU and got "hit" in March 2024, or got "hit" in both.
Basically, something that has always really been the case with Google, but has come even more to the fore over the past 8 months is, in order to rank for most keywords your domain needs some level of authority.
And ANYONE who says they are ranking fairly well for keywords in a newish site, ask them how much traffic they are getting!!! LOL!!
Rankings mean NOTHING if you're only getting 10, 50, 100 visitors per month.
Google recently changed their wording about "backlinks", basically removing the word "important" from their ranking documentation, but in truth, DON'T TRUST THEM, hahahaha!! Authority = backlinks = this is what is currently ranking.
Plus, just so you know, MANY course and membership creators online whose basic business model is blogging and SEO to rank in Google are currently getting called out as scammers, i.e. yeah, this stuff worked, but it clearly doesn't anymore, so why are you still selling it without completely changing your ideas!!
For your own way forward, you kinda have to return to what many of us were doing circa 2008-2012, "parasite" of high DA web 2.0 properties.
Now, before anyone starts going on about "parasite SEO" and "site reputation abuse", most web 2.0s have not been affected.
Sure, LinkedIn Pulse and Medium saw slight declines in traffic BEFORE the March Core Update, but there are still 1000s of % traffic increases for both platforms since last year.
Reddit (of course) has even seen a 25% increase in traffic DURING the March 2024 Core Update.
Anyway, here's what I would do if I were you.
Firstly, you're looking at Medium and Linkedin completely incorrectly.
Forget about followers, forget about being "social", forget about "using the platforms how they're supposed to be used"...
If Google wants to play games, why not beat them at their own game?
Currently, Medium and LinkedIn Pulse are ranking for a LOT!!!
Firstly, go through your 70 articles and do Google searches for your primary keyword for each article.
Make a note of any keywords that have Medium or Linkedin ranking in the TOP 20 places.
Do keyword research for new keywords (make sure to check page one of Google for your keywords and see if Medium or Linkedin are ranking)
HOWEVER
For BOTH of the above methods of checking, if you see ANY social networks or UGC sites (apart from Reddit and Quora) ranking on page one of Google, keep that keyword to write an article.
Now, what you're going to do is PARASITE OFF MEDIUM & LINKEDIN'S DOMAIN AUTHORITY.
In other words, you are going to write full articles, SEO-optimized (after your page one checks), and publish to these platforms.
Share these articles on Facebook (and any other social accounts you have, e.g. Twitter/X)
And do the above CONSISTENTLY (how you initially started writing articles on your website, do the same for these two platforms, e.g. 3-4 per week, more if possible. For Medium just use the import tool - https://medium.com/p/import - it provides a canonical link, so don't worry about "duplicate content", therefore you can get your 70 articles from your site to Medium in about 10 minutes per article - just copy and paste your images and videos)
Get your autoresponder set up, and write an email series of at least 10 emails to get yourself started.
A great way to do this is a 10-part series, e.g. My Top 10 Tips For ...
Include a link to your ebook in your email signature, but make it an enticing call to action and then anchor text your link.
So, as an example, your anchor text below your name may say something like
Discover How I Reached a 1500 Rating WITHOUT Studying Theory
And then that will be "linked" to your ebook.
Furthermore, inside your emails create a "PAID AD" section.
What you do is split your emails up to look like this:
Email Content
Email Content
Email Content
Email Content
Email Content
---------PAID AD---------
-----END OF PAID AD------
Email Content
Email Content
Email Content
Email Content
Email Content
Thanks For Reading
Yusuf
Discover How I Reached a 1500 Rating WITHOUT Studying Theory
The reason for this is you're getting your email subscribers used to an "ad" in your emails.
But, you can get around this on your first email:
"I'll regularly recommend products that i have used, which will help to elevate your game. You'll notice about half way down my emails I have a "paid ad" section, which is where you'll find my recommendations. Of course, if you just want to read my content skip the ad, but I just wanted to let you know I'll regularly be making recommendations of things that I know will work to increase your rating"
(obviously, write it better than that, hahahaha!! I just wrote that off the top of my head)
Do this for a few months an see what happens.
So, basically, content published to Medium and Linkedin Pulse, link from these articles to your landing page to collect email addresses, have some emails written up, and have an email signature for your ebook, and a "paid ad" section within your emails.
Continue to add content to your site, but say something like once a week is fine.
What you're doing here is keeping your website fresh with occasional content, while increasing links coming to your website from you "externally-written" articles, but once you've "gained some traction" on Medium and Linkedin, and your articles are ranking in the SERPs you are finally getting traffic to your email newsletter and your "offers".
And that is your 2024 business plan!!!!
THE END!!
Hahahahahahahaha!!
Partha
Thank you very much Partha, I'll keep your tips in mind and do my best to implement them.
There are two things I don't quite understand, though.
(1) You said I should link to my landing page from my Medium and LinkedIn articles to get subscriptions for my list, but you also said I should leave the link to my eBook in my email signature.
I'm selling the eBook, so what will the landing page be for? No lead magnet — just an invitation to subscribe to get valuable chess tips?
Or are you suggesting I give away a freebie other than the eBook? Perhaps a "chess move checklist" or something of the sort will do the trick?
(2) When talking about the Paid Ad section, you said:
"The reason for this is you're getting your email subscribers used to an ad in your emails."
Are you saying that I should initially fill this section up with some of my affiliate products to get my subscribers used to this structure until I start actually having ads?
I'm not very well-versed with this, but I assume people with thousands of subscribers approach companies willing to promote their products and services, and reserve a promotional section for them in their emails. Is that right?
Thanks again Partha.
1) I think it's a good idea for EVERYONE to have an email list, in truth, this is a good way to also get traffic to your website, i.e. occasionally, summarise an article you've written in an email, and then send your subscribers to the article via a link in your emails.
A lead magnet, yep, definitely, unless you're well-known in your niche and people are clambering to get information from you, they need a reason to sign up to your email newsletter.
As I've said above, your "lead magnet" DOESN'T have to be a downloadable giveaway, it could simply be a series of emails providing tips.
So, as an example, find a topic that you've perhaps written about on your site, or even over at chess .com, something that you know people in your niche are really interested in.
Okay, an example, I know nothing about chess really, so I won't even bother trying to give you an example about that.
But, let's say your niche is weight loss.
So, my first 10 emails could be "The 10 Greatest Life-Changing Weight Loss Tips You Need to See".
Then, email one deals with "metabolism", email two deals with "strength training", email 3 deals with "carbohydrates", email 4 deals with "cardio".
Essentially, I've written a 5,000 word article and then split it into 10 x 500-word parts<----these are your first 10 emails.
So, my "lead magnet" could just be these 10 emails, then again, if you want your subscribers to have something to download in the traditional way, you could convert that 5,000 word article into a PDF free giveaway ebook (increase font size so you're only getting about 300 words per page, and you've just created a 17-page free ebook to give away <--- think of your "free ebook" in terms of a long-form listicle article that you've just converted to PDF.
Don't forget that most PDF giveaways are often a few articles from your main website put together.
Whichever way you use to go you should have something to "entice" people to sign up to your newsletter.
Without coming across as arrogant (hahahahahaha)...
Imagine if you and I BOTH set up a landing page WITHOUT a free giveaway or something to entice INSIDE the email newsletter, who do think more people at WA are going to sign up for?
It doesn't mean my content will be better than yours, I'm just a better-known entity than you, so people are likely to already be "enticed" by me without even knowing what I have to offer.
So, as an unknown entity in your niche currently. you need to give people something to sign up to your newsletter.
2) You don't need to have a "paid ad" section, most people don't.
However, I actually find it comes across as more sincere.
You're basically saying, "I'll have product recommendations in every email, as well as some great informational content for you to read"
This could just be me, but most people will write a few informational emails and then hit you with a sales pitch, and then back to informational content.
Therefore, in much the same way as a blog, i.e. informational content, review, more informational content, another review, etc.
You can do your email series like this, I just like to be open and upfront all the time.
If I've got something to sell I'm going to tell you about it.
As for what to include if you do go this route, you've said you've written 5 reviews, so you could obviously have a small section in your emails promoting these.
Something else to do is find a few websites in your niche and sign up for their newsletters (go to Eric's Chess site and do that too).
Get yourself onto about 5-7 newsletters (open a fresh email account), by doing Google searches for keywords and seeing if there are PURELY CHESS-RELATED websites.
Reverse engineer what they're doing.
Did they have a landing page or just a sidebar widget or a pop-up on their site?
Did they offer a free lead magnet?
How often are they sending emails?
What is the content of these emails?
Do they have a "linked signature", a paid ads section, or do they promote in another way?
How long/short are the emails?
How often do they "promote" something?
What products are they promoting (their own/affiliate)?
This will give you a better idea of how to create your offer.
The only reason I mentioned the "paid ads" or offering affiliate products within your emails is because, while it's fantastic that you're creating your own product, how many sales are you going to have to make a month of a $5 product for it to seem "worthwhile"?
As Is say, gets some ideas from other webmasters in your niche, plus don't forget, once you have an email newsletter you can write what you want, say what you want, without worrying of being at the whim of a huge corporation trying to control you (Google).
All I've done above is give you some ideas, but the best way is usually just to reverse-engineer what your successful competitors are doing.
Thank you for your ideas, but they assume I have email addresses. How do I get email addresses?
Hi Yusuf
That’s a great strategy!
I recommend three things.
Don’t spread yourself out too thin.
Continue publishing content on your site.
Consider giving away your ebook as a lead magnet for an email list.
Frank 🎸
Thank you Frank.
I did consider the lead magnet idea as it's very common, but the thing is that I have nothing to sell to my email list.
I don't have any major service I'm offering or major product I'm selling, so it makes more sense to sell the eBook at this point, don't you think?
Hi Yusuf
You would know better than I since it’s your niche.
I would also consider selling your ebook on Amazon and other online platforms that make sense.
Frank 🎸
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Hi everyone,
My Site Manager has been showing me that my Site Health percentage is decreasing.
I believe the main reason is that my publishing frequency hasn't be
Hey Yusuf,
I've checked your Javascript and CSS and can't find any issues.
You can check for yourself here:
https://www.drlinkcheck.com/
But, as I say, I can't see any issues.
As for duplicate title tags, this would only LEGITIMATELY happen if you've used the same title for a number of different articles.
What you're likely seeing is due to the "additional pages" you'll often find in HTML format, i.e. category, tags, author, feed, etc.
Therefore, as long as you're sure that you haven't used exactly the same title for "real" articles, you can ignore this.
And the viewport tag is simply how your site and articles look on a mobile device.
As long as your theme is mobile-responsive this isn't an issue.
Have a look at a few articles on mobile.
Do they look okay?
Have the articles and images been "spread out" so they are readable on a mobile device?
Or do readers have to zoom in to properly read your text?
At a guess, you're using GeneratePress, so this is a mobile-responsive theme, and your articles should look perfectly "normal" when viewed on mobile.
This being the case, you can actually ignore ALL of the above.
While Semrush is a fantastic tool, their reports can be quite confusing, and realistically many of these things won't have an impact on your site.
Plus, the reports you receive will also include information about your HTML pages, which real humans will never read anyway.
As for WA's Site Health, sure you can completely ignore this.
Realistically, the internal Site Health was created to give "newbies" something to aim for, e.g. add regular content, ask for feedback, ask for comments, don't have too many plugins, etc.
But, in reality, you can have a perfectly successful website without publishing regularly, never asking for comments or feedback from WA, and having 200 plugins installed on your site.
I would say from the above, just ensure that you don't have any articles with exactly the same title tag (pretty sure you won't and it will just be the "feed", "author", "tag", etc. pages) and check what a few of your articles look like on mobile.
As long as you can read your articles and everything looks well spaced out on mobile, you're all good (you'll often find really old websites online that were created with code, prior to WordPress, and they don't look great on mobile, as in you have to zoom in to read, scroll ACROSS to read an entire sentence).
Partha
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Decreasing site health – any advice?
Hi everyone,
My Site Manager has been showing me that my Site Health percentage is decreasing.
I believe the main reason is that my publishing frequency hasn't be
Hey Yusuf,
I've checked your Javascript and CSS and can't find any issues.
You can check for yourself here:
https://www.drlinkcheck.com/
But, as I say, I can't see any issues.
As for duplicate title tags, this would only LEGITIMATELY happen if you've used the same title for a number of different articles.
What you're likely seeing is due to the "additional pages" you'll often find in HTML format, i.e. category, tags, author, feed, etc.
Therefore, as long as you're sure that you haven't used exactly the same title for "real" articles, you can ignore this.
And the viewport tag is simply how your site and articles look on a mobile device.
As long as your theme is mobile-responsive this isn't an issue.
Have a look at a few articles on mobile.
Do they look okay?
Have the articles and images been "spread out" so they are readable on a mobile device?
Or do readers have to zoom in to properly read your text?
At a guess, you're using GeneratePress, so this is a mobile-responsive theme, and your articles should look perfectly "normal" when viewed on mobile.
This being the case, you can actually ignore ALL of the above.
While Semrush is a fantastic tool, their reports can be quite confusing, and realistically many of these things won't have an impact on your site.
Plus, the reports you receive will also include information about your HTML pages, which real humans will never read anyway.
As for WA's Site Health, sure you can completely ignore this.
Realistically, the internal Site Health was created to give "newbies" something to aim for, e.g. add regular content, ask for feedback, ask for comments, don't have too many plugins, etc.
But, in reality, you can have a perfectly successful website without publishing regularly, never asking for comments or feedback from WA, and having 200 plugins installed on your site.
I would say from the above, just ensure that you don't have any articles with exactly the same title tag (pretty sure you won't and it will just be the "feed", "author", "tag", etc. pages) and check what a few of your articles look like on mobile.
As long as you can read your articles and everything looks well spaced out on mobile, you're all good (you'll often find really old websites online that were created with code, prior to WordPress, and they don't look great on mobile, as in you have to zoom in to read, scroll ACROSS to read an entire sentence).
Partha
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Hi Yusuf
An AI-generated draft may be a good starting point. 😎
Frank 🎸
Thanks, Abie! 🙏
At my age, I'm more like Alfred. Lol 😂
Frank 🤘🎸
Haha, that I am, Abie! 😎😎
You, too, Abie! 😎😎