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!

Hi Miriam,

What a great question. Yellowpages.com has linked to individual blog posts on my clients site from each town listing in New Jersey.  I have like 70 posts on the site and there are like 550 twps. in New Jersey so there you go.

They don't show up in my Moz Analytics or open site explorer. I see these links in google search console. I imagine that these are no follow?

Thanks

I have a client that has 2500 yellowpages.com links like this one http://m.yellowpages.com/hillside-nj/guardianship-services Are these SEO relevant? Can they hurt SEO efforts. Is this something should push for clients? Can Yellow pages be a good link building strategy? What say you?

Your focus keywords I think are right on! I was stuck on the path of what type of design i did technically and not thought about breaking it up into genres. Duh! why was that not on the top of my list

I have read Yoast's guide and bought their two e-books as well. Problem is they leave out specifics regarding their plugin. Try to find a tutorial written by yoast about best practices to set up and utilize their plugin. They will not give you this as they want to sell their personalized service and set the plugin up for you. I don't blame them however it would be nice to see how they set up title tags and not spend $600 bucks for it

What do you think about testimonial post types?

This one is for the WordPress optimization crowd!

Portfolios are used to display work. I have a question about best seo optimization techniques.

1. Portfolios can be used to display many different types of work, for me it either original web designs from scratch, WordPress redesigns, or importing a current website into WordPress. What is the best practice for keywords for  multiple portfolios that are in one category. for instance WordPress Redesign. If I have 5 WordPress redesign portfolio posts is it good practice to use WordPress redesign for all 5 portfolios or should they use variations? Yoast gets angry when the same focus keyword is used multiple times.

2. Should portfolios even be indexed? Since this is how I attract new customers I would think yes but am I giving too much exposure to my client and not enough to my business. I guess this will depend on titles and meta descriptions.

A discussion on best practices here is what I am really looking for. What is your advice and opinion on the matter.