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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
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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Hey everyone,
Ever since November 2023, my site has been pretty much dead on Google.
However, there's something that has been bugging me, and I'm hoping some of y
there is a lag in the data presented by search console and can be a little annoying....
i use it as a guide - a bit like keyword tools volumes...to see that google is taking notice of posts and adding more keywords over time...
have a read of this post - it explains it a bit more
https://www.jumpfly.com/blog/why-your-filtered-google-search-console-data-doesnt-add-up/
The average position becomes 14, but the point still stands.
And it's not just today that I checked, I've been checking sporadically for a while now.
I realize that - I was just curious.
Personally, I don't usually trust the Average position in GSC for this specific reason - I don't know where it's pulling its numbers from but it's often-times unrealistic. It's honestly a hit and miss many times (which is why I'll double check to confirm I'm ranking where it says I am). Other people may have different results (and you may have different results for other keywords - I just manually checked 3 different keywords on two of my sites, and they were surprisingly all fairly accurate).
How do all your other keywords stand up compared to your Average position? Is it just this one, or all of them?
The reason I ask is because I've also found that with some of my sites, most of them are legit, but then there are a few off-liers that aren't true. For example, I just checked, and I'm supposedly ranking first place for "Declutter Clothes", however I'm no where to be seen.
(EDIT: I just spent good chunk of time going through probably a good 50-100 PAA questions to see if you were listed there, but nada. Was thinking that might be a reason why.).
Thank you very much Andy. I appreciate the time you spent helping me out.
Yeah, it does seem to be unreliable.
Unfortunately, I cannot check whether this issue persists with other keywords because as I said, Google and I aren't very good friends, so believe it or not, that's my best keyword as of late.
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Average position for a keyword but nowhere to be seen?
Hey everyone,
Ever since November 2023, my site has been pretty much dead on Google.
However, there's something that has been bugging me, and I'm hoping some of y
there is a lag in the data presented by search console and can be a little annoying....
i use it as a guide - a bit like keyword tools volumes...to see that google is taking notice of posts and adding more keywords over time...
have a read of this post - it explains it a bit more
https://www.jumpfly.com/blog/why-your-filtered-google-search-console-data-doesnt-add-up/
The average position becomes 14, but the point still stands.
And it's not just today that I checked, I've been checking sporadically for a while now.
I realize that - I was just curious.
Personally, I don't usually trust the Average position in GSC for this specific reason - I don't know where it's pulling its numbers from but it's often-times unrealistic. It's honestly a hit and miss many times (which is why I'll double check to confirm I'm ranking where it says I am). Other people may have different results (and you may have different results for other keywords - I just manually checked 3 different keywords on two of my sites, and they were surprisingly all fairly accurate).
How do all your other keywords stand up compared to your Average position? Is it just this one, or all of them?
The reason I ask is because I've also found that with some of my sites, most of them are legit, but then there are a few off-liers that aren't true. For example, I just checked, and I'm supposedly ranking first place for "Declutter Clothes", however I'm no where to be seen.
(EDIT: I just spent good chunk of time going through probably a good 50-100 PAA questions to see if you were listed there, but nada. Was thinking that might be a reason why.).
Thank you very much Andy. I appreciate the time you spent helping me out.
Yeah, it does seem to be unreliable.
Unfortunately, I cannot check whether this issue persists with other keywords because as I said, Google and I aren't very good friends, so believe it or not, that's my best keyword as of late.
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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
Thank you very much Partha.
I really appreciate your help.