Hello,

I have a question. Sorry if this is been answered before.

Recently I decided to do a little face lift to my main website pages. I wanted to make my testimonials more pretty. Found this great plugin for testimonials which creates shortcodes.

I love how it looks like, but just realised that when I use images in shortcodes, these are not picked up by search engines only text is.

Image search ability is pretty important for me and I'm not sure if I should stick with my plain design and upload images manually with all alt tags and title tags or there is a way to adjust shortcode so it shows images to search engines.

You can see example here. https://a-fotografy.co.uk/maternity-photographer-edinburgh/

Let me know your thoughts guys.

Regards,

Armands

Hi,

Thanks for response. So I went back and unchecked Strip the category base (usually /category/) from the category URL option and also

Redirect attachment URLs to parent post URL. option.

Hope this will solve the problem.

Thanks,

Regards,

Armands

Hello all,

Something strange happened with my blog site.

I recently signed to MOZ tools.

Initially everything was fine, but during my last crawl I got loads of 404
pages.

Few days ago I was tweaking some settings in SEO plugin according to this post https://moz.com/blog/setup-wordpress-for-seo-success

What I noticed was that 404 pages were coming from my blog posts, but for
some reason category was missing in those posts.

For example this link is 404
https://a-fotografy.co.uk/inchcolm-island-wedding-photography-bailie

The one with category is

https://a-fotografy.co.uk/wedding-pictures/inchcolm-island-wedding-photography-bailie/

So basically for some reason category was missing.

Please let me know how can I fix this instead of doing hundreds of
redirects now.

Thank you,
Regards,
Armands

Ok I will wait to get it through. We can have a chat about this.

Thanks,

A

I love idea of including phone as I get mainly people calling me anyway. But if that would be active phone number which dials straight away, that could be cool.

Yes we have hamburger now. Let me get this right as I think we think the same. Are you recommending to add those subcategories ( gallery, prices, partners ) to the main existing hamburger, yes? And then make whole menu sticky, yes?

Thanks for your help.

A

Hi Peter,

Just looked up what means hamburger and I'm good now

So for my mobile site.

Do you think it could make sense to make 3 level menu. So main menu, sub category and then gallery, price etc menu?

Or Make main menu sticky and then hamburger with sub category and gallery, price etc menu?

Here is another thought I had,

What if I could make main menu as hamburger. Like I have now. Main menu and subcategory, but make sticky menu on top for side bar options ( prices, gallery etc?)

Do you think that could be doable?

Thanks Peter.

Thanks Peter,

Now you are talking far too clever for me What is hamburger icon?

Also how do you do A/B testing for the site. Do you make two sites?

I'm not a developer, but can pass this onto him. Or maybe I can hire here to get this job done.

Thank you Peter.

Hi Egol,

Thanks for reply. I'm trying to link up relevant pages with hypertext.

The little box you talking about. Where ddi you see that? Did you use tablet or phone? I guess it might be that widget box you talking about. I'm taking that away and will place as an image in actual content.

Good advise about menu of related articles.

When you say duplicate menu at the bottom, do you mean main menu or sidebar menu. At the moment I have only sidebar menu at the bottom.

Thank you Egol.

Thank you for advise Peter.

I just looked at the sticky option. The skeleton you mentioned. I opened page on my mobile, but I didn't see the main menu. It was on my desktop, but not on the mobile so I'm not sure how does it work on mobile. Especially with two menus.

Does it mean that I would have two sticky menus on top? Like my main navigation one and one with secondary menu options?

I like idea of sticky, but just need to make sure that I don't confuse user

Hi everyone,

I have a little problem.

Not that long ago I launched my new site. Everything seems ok, but I'm not sure if it was clever idea to have  additional side bar menu option. I wanted relevant content to be accessible very easy without dropdown in main menu.

It looks ok on desktop, but we have a problem with mobile devices. Even main menu is a bit confusing and sidebar at the moment is at the bottom of each page. When I placed it on top of the page, we had problem with tablet users as it is showing side menu with blank page and content is almost below the fold.

I have a tool installed called usability tools and it shows how visitors are using my site.

The hard bit is that nobody on mobile devices are using sidebar and that means people visit one page and leave without exploring any additional resources.

Me and my developer are discussing that maybe we should have two main menu bars instead of sidebar, but I have no idea how this looks in real life.

What is the best practises for sidebar menus these days? Maybe we have a designer here who can help me with this and do some work?

My site is https://a-fotografy.co.uk/

Thank you for all help in input in advance.

Regards,

Armands

Hi Don,

I got web guy to fix the issue. Seems it should be fixed now and I should have 301 redirects.

Not sure why I still get that message in Open Site Explorer, but I have raised this with MOZ support.

Thanks Don for all your help.

Regards,

Armands

Thank you Don,

Not to worry. I think my developer is stuck now and has no idea how to fix those 302 redirects. Yesterday I noticed that there were few more coming up.

Around 2 month ago I changed the site. I have a feeling that something went bad during that process.

Now I have hundreds of 404 errors in my webmaster tools and pretty much all of them are old pages and some even from previous website before that which was 3 years ago. Not sure where it is picking up this from.

I also noticed that my previous websites urls making 302 redirects and they redirect from https to http urls.

Here is what happened when we launched new site.

• Changed over to new site. I still had my http address then few weeks after launch we decided that in long term it would be better to have https secure line. Then he added that https and that is where problems started.

Seems like old site now is picking up this https as well and doing those 302 redirects.

I even don't know why my old site is still being crawled and giving me errors. Weird.

I have passed your reply to my developer and see what he will say.

Thank you Don,

Regards,

Armands

Hi Jo,

We are back to drawing board.

My developer tried to fix this issue, but with no results.

Not sure what is wrong and why he can't fix it

According to webconfs header checker I still have 302 redirects.

I think the web guy made things even worse as on my current domain according to same header checker I have 400 bad request coming back.

Help please. Not sure what to do.

Thanks,

Regards,

Armands

Hi Don,

My developer tried to fix this issue today, used your suggested code, but still it seems site explorer brings up the same message He is stuck and not sure what else to do.

I don't know much about the code and he is saying that he has done everything possible.

If you have a minute, could you have a look what is the code now?

Thank you Don,

Regards,

Armands

Hi Don,

Thank you for looking into this.

So basically I need to point all links to my existing domain.

I knew there is something weird going on.

My old www domain used to be very good in rankings and my guess now since there is 302 all link juice is not passed onto my new domain.

Thanks Don I will pass this info to my web developer.

Regards,

Armands

Hi all,

I tried to find answer in help section. Few people have asked this before but in none of the answers it tells how they fix it. Sorry I will need to ask here again.

In Open Site Explorer i get this message.

You entered the URL https://a-fotografy.co.uk/ which redirects to http://www.a-fotografy.co.uk/. Because it's likely to have more accurate metrics, we're showing data for the redirected URL instead. Click here to analyze https://a-fotografy.co.uk/ instead?

My current site is https://a-fotografy.co.uk/ not sure why it is redirecting to my old domain. Weird. My web developer couldn't explain this issue.

Saying that I also go my first analytics report and in priority issues I have

http://a-fotografy.co.uk   302 redirect and not sure where it is redirecting to.

If someone could shed some light of how to figure out how to find exactly what is redirecting to what and where is the problem.

Thank you guys,

Regards,

Armands