https://www.travelwithallsenses.com
-using Voyage Theme
I want to bring my blog up to a new and better level and need some critical feedback. I read about validiation and did one one my blog. It came out with 35 errors! It looks like it is technical errors, not anything I can do with the content. But that made me wonder and I would be very grateful to get some serious critic on the SEO and user friendliness on my blog. I am an amatour, but really want to learn more!
Best wishes from Bente in Norway
Nice slick looking blog you’ve got there! Seems pretty easy to navigate from a UI stand point, and it looks like you’ve got the basic SEO stuff down with your Title, H1 and H2 tags. Your permalinks look to be nice and search engine friendly as well.
From the technical side I’d look at this GTMetrix report and work on possibly optimizing and scaling your images to make your site as fast as possible which search engines love.
For instance on this POST I’m about to mention you have the Plugin Yet Another Related Posts Plugin that is adding “You Might Also Like”. It’s using this image which is 315KB and 650×443 in size:
It’s only displaying it at 120×120 but still loading the entire image. So GTMetrix estimates you could knock off 94% of the file size if you just created a 120×120 version of the image.
One thing you might want to watch out for is unique and accurate descriptive ALT text on your images also. For instance on this post:
Travel safe with a safe pocket!
Travel safe with a safe pocket, easy to make.
Travel save with a self made safe pocket.
This could seem like keyword stuffing to Google in some cases, so you might want to use ALT tags to actually describe what is going on in an image. Here’s Google’s own Matt Cutts on the topic:
On that page, I’d use ALT texts like this instead:
passport on travel safe pocket
travel safe pocket in sewing machine
travel safe pocket in pants
Google’s algorithms are getting more and more advanced and the more you can describe your page content to them, the more likely they are going to pull up your page for related searches. For instance you might think you’re targeting “travel safe pocket”, but if a human Google’s “how to create a pocket with a sewing machine” because you’re being more descriptive to Google about your page content it might also allow you to show for that query.
Anyways not really seeing too much else to improve on, great stuff, it’s easy to navigate around and looks good too!
I am so sorry and embarrassed that I have not thanked you for your helpful reply soooo long ago! I have missed the notice of the reply and discovered it yesterday by accident. Thank you so much for helpful advice and I will do as you recommend.
Bente
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