I’ve been using Yoast for a while (thanks for a great product!) and have a good Google ranking for both individual sites. I am obviously keen not to lose the rankings on mysite.it while moving to the combined mysite.com. I also need to make sure I’m not competing with myself on the Italian content at any point.
I’ve taken the xml sitemap and I am building up a list of redirects from the old to the new. I’ve read Yoast’s page about canonical URLs. I’ve also read Google’s advice on moving sites in the Google search console. But I can’t find anything that specifically tells me how to sequence combining sites like this.
Do I:
1. Keep the .it site running for a while, with 301 redirects to the .com site? (I’ve used the Redirection plugin in the past, and would use it for this.) Or
2. Keep the .it site running for a while, with canonical URLs set in the Advanced settings of the Yoast SEO meta box? Or
3. Redirect the whole .it site from day one to the .com site at the domain level and hope for the best (in multiple choice questions, there’s always a stupid answer, right?).
I’d be nervous about (3) because some of the site’s structure will also be changing, with some pages also being split and merged, so I’d like some way of telling Google etc where the new info is. I mention this option because it would certainly make sure that I wasn’t competing with myself on the Italian content at any point.
(1) is my favorite option, although in the past I’ve seen a Google article saying that if you’re moving sites, don’t do it in stages, but get it done in one go (though the move scenario doesn’t match my case, as I’m combining sites, not moving them).
For (2), Yoast’s article on canonicals says that “If you are unsure whether to do a 301 redirect or set a canonical, what should you do? The answer is simple: you should always do a redirect unless there are technical reasons not to.” But again, this isn’t specifically addressing the issue of merging sites. Additionally, this approach would not allow me to redirect attachment pages properly (and as the site’s images crop up a fair amount of searches, they probably help push up the rankings too).
So to the question: from a Yoast/SEO point of view, is approach (1) better than (2) in order to maintain rankings? Also: Am I missing a better, completely different, approach?
Any advice very welcome. There seems to be a dearth of info on this.
]]>I’m using LiteSpeed & OpenLiteSpeed & CyberPanel.
I was wondering even if cache is disabled for certain pages, how can I turn on css-js optimizing and combining options for these pages? For example, woocommerce cart and checkout pages.
Regards.
]]>I’m trying to optimize a website using Hummingbird, and I have a ton of JS and CSS files (88 http requests in total). I’ve combined all of them but I still get the same amount of requests. Shouldn’t the original files be prevented from loading once they’ve been combined? Hope anyone can shed some light on this, thanks!
EDIT: I feel so stupid – I forgot to clear the page cache!
]]>I am currently working on a school project, which contains the building of a project management system.
My question is the following:
I want to create a new table in my database, that only shows users (with their ID and their names) that have the role as ‘author’. Is there a way to do this?
]]>For instance, I have a product that is currently segmented into standard and nonstandard sizes, now I want to bring all nonstandard sizes into the standard size product.
Right now I thought I could do it by exporting the products to a csv and changing a product ID but that doesn’t appear to be the right way.
Anyone know the best way to do it?
]]>For instance, I have a product that is currently segmented into standard and nonstandard sizes, now I want to bring all nonstandard sizes into the standard size product.
Right now I thought I could do it by exporting the products to a csv and changing a product ID but that doesn’t appear to be the right way.
Anyone know the best way to do it?
]]>“Your page has 103 blocking script resources. This causes a delay in rendering your page.”
Only happened after I updated plugin today. (https://aragonlawoffices.com)
EDIT: I used another plugin to handle the js combining for now.
]]>Could you please help me figure out how to implement the Lightbox Effect in the following piece of code?
I’ve tried multiple combinations but I’m really not a programer so I haven’t got any success. I know this is the Lightbox ShortCode:
[su_lightbox type="iframe" src="" class=""]
[/su_lightbox]
Here is the code I need to wrap it with:
<H3>Pictures:</H3>
[wpv-for-each field="wpcf-slider"]
<a href="[types field='slider' size='full' url='true' separator=','][/types]">[types field='slider' alt='%%ALT%%' title='%%TITLE%%' width='270' height='160' align='none' resize='crop' separator=', '][/types]</a>
[/wpv-for-each]
The code above was generated with the ToolSet Types and Views Plugin.
]]>Uncaught ReferenceError: jQuery is not defined at fda6f0d87f82f6b7b1dabad6bf3a8ae5.js:1
Could you guys look into this problem or know a way to resolve this problem? As I do want to combine all my JS into one!
Thanks in advance.
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