Yoast Social Accounts URL Section
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Hi
When you click: Social within Yoast plugin it defaults to 'Account' tab and displays a list of fields to enter your social media account urls. Sentence above list says: "To inform Google about your social profiles, we need to know their URLs. For each, pick the main account associated with this site and please enter them below"
What does that mean exactly and does it effect links on the site etc or literally is just Yoast telling G ?
Also if you have sub sites for different language versions (WP on Multi User setup), which in turn have their own language specific social media account versions , should you enter those urls in the sub site language version own Yoast plugin fields OR , as per "...pick the main account associated with this site and please enter them below" use the primary social account and not the language specific social account or just leave them blank ?
Many Thanks
Dan
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HI Thomas
First of all thanks so much for taking the time to respond in so much detail i really appreciate it
For your info we are not deploying hreflang for this project/client since one of the country sub sites is actually on its own ccTLD and the foreign language site on a sub folder - we don't have a problem with the various languages ranking in other countries, in fact consider it better that way since some will use English in Turkey and Turkish in Turkey etc etc. However this clients developer has added hreflang fields so can add in the future if want or need to depending how things work out with it but internatinal seo strategist on this project advised not to use it in our particular circumstance.
Re Yoast Social Accounts:
The main English .com site does have all these socials entered into the Accounts tab/page of Yoast , i presumed it made sense to add the foreign language socials to the Accounts tab/page in the foreign language sub sites too BUT have been told by someone who had done similar that it screwed everything up. So just wanting to check if you agree here and they should be left empty since when they say **MAIN social accounts **they do mean just the English in the .com Yoast Accounts section and leave the Accounts tab in foreign language sub sites Yoast empty.
The articles you provided such as Yoast etc are all very good and i did look at these but none seem to address this specific question which is what im look to clarify, any ideas ?
Many Thanks
Dan
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Hi Dan
"if i have multilingual sub sites (Wordpress Multi User envrionment) then I should enter the language specific social accounts into the appropriate language sub site Yoast OR as per the sentence at the top of Yoast page: "...pick the main account associated with this site and please enter them below", just put the main social accounts in here. Im trying to work out if when they say main here they mean the original main English social account ? "
When using multilingual or geo-targeting a.k.a. Hreflang there is an additional plug-in you will want to use ( I like wpml)
See: http://wplang.org/hreflang-attributes-wordpress/
I like: https://wpml.org/documentation/plugins-compatibility/using-wordpress-seo-with-wpml/?
Yes you also want to add a notice of these alternative pages via OpenGraph:
- The locale these tags are marked up in. Note that OpenGraph _does _use an underscore.
- An array of other locales this page is available in.
More on that for instance on the Facebook developers pages.
&
this is the accounts page you are discussing?
http://i.imgur.com/fxsPr5H.gifv
https://neonbrand.com/seo/ultimate-guide-setting-wordpress-seo-yoast-plugin-version-221/
http://kb.yoast.com/article/219-getting-open-graph-for-your-articles
https://yoast.com/social-media-optimization-with-wordpress-seo-by-yoast/
Social – WordPress SEO by Yoast
This is a great new section to version 2.0 of the Yoast SEO plugin. He’s really brought together all the social requirements together in one place. It’s really self explanatory, just make sure you fill out as much of each tab as possible.
Accounts
Get your social accounts setup! Then come back here and plug in the URL’s (or in Twitter’s case, the username… come on Yoast-onians, be consistent!
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Just so you know other advice ive got in regard to this is to leave foreign language sub site Yoast plug account fields empty
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Hi Thomas are you able to confirm re my reply ?
many thanks
dan
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Ah ok its Open Graph so is meta data to do with social accounts, cool thanks Thomas !
However just to be clear your screenshot is for a different page from the one im referring to! Im taling about the 'Account' tab page with a list of fields for all social URL's , is this still what its for , letting G know and adding open graph ? Since if so seems a bit strange to have a whole new page/tab for this when the information has been added via the other social account specific tabs.pages already - surely Yoast can pull the data from these to compile the file and add OG, if they are both for same reason surely duplicating what's required which makes me think the 'Account' page servers another or an additional function, what do you think ?
So do you agree if i have multilingual sub sites (Wordpress Multi User envrionment) then I should enter the language specific social accounts into the appropriate language sub site Yoast OR as per the sentence at the top of Yoast page: "...pick the main account associated with this site and please enter them below", just put the main social accounts in here. Im trying to work out if when they say main here they mean the original main English social account ?
Also re this part of Yoast, in regard to adding a Facebook admin, is that just to access FB Insights via WP interface (if so i dont need that since access it direct) OR does this also serve another function such as adding more Open Graph to the site about the actual FB user/admin ?
Many Thanks
Dan
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It is there to authenticate you with the social media networks as well as create open graph tags
it is a form of structured data called open graph
See
- https://builtvisible.com/a-look-at-social-mark-up/
- http://kb.yoast.com/article/219-getting-open-graph-for-your-articles
- https://yoast.com/social-media-optimization-with-wordpress-seo-by-yoast/
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{"@context": "http://ogp.me","@type":"article","og:locale": "en_GB","og:title": "Log File Analysis for SEO","og:description": "Mastered technical SEO and feel like you’d like to stretch your knowledge further? Read this unapologetically technical guide to Log File Analysis...","og:url": "http://builtvisible.com/log-file-analysis/","og:site_name": "Builtvisible : Digital Marketing & SEO Agency","og:image": "http://builtvisible.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/log-file-analysis-social.jpg","og:published_time":"2014-09-15","og:author":
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I hope this helps, Tom
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Thanks Donald !
OK cool thanks for the info, sounds interesting i hadnt heard of that before, is this something specific to Yoast only ?
Re: language version sub-sites, even if it says: "...pick the main account associated with this site and please enter them below"
Many Thanks
Dan
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Hi Dan,
Good question, I will keep it simple, Yoast creates a file with your Social Profile Urls and shares them with the google crawlers. This links your social profiles with your website.
If you have sub-sites in multiple languages then I would add those social profiles too if you prefer.
Have a nice day!
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