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I have since swapped my SEO plugin to Platinum SEO pack but still need to debug the link before it shows on FB…

Update: Turns out it was Cloudfire’s fault. Thanks for your help.

For now the changes you mentioned and adding back FB like thumbnail seem to be working perfectly.

It would be great to get improved open graph implementation in your plugin. I would prefer to just use that but find that even now I’m having issues with FB not being able to pull the correct image for a link. I’ll make those changes and see if that works.
Thanks for the quick reply and a great plugin.

I ended up moving to WPtouch Pro and was able to adjust settings to remove the header from certain pages. I’m extremely pleased with WPtouch Pro by the way.
This is my new mobile landing page if you want to take a look:
https://wednesdaysinmhd.com/marblehead-ma/

Hmm..nevermind. Just had my last three posts show in my reader.

Not sure what the answer was but thanks for trying…

Yah – the validator has given me that info before:

This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.
Your feed appears to be encoded as “UTF-8”, but your server is reporting “US-ASCII”

but it never seemed to be an issue in propagating the feed (if that correctly describes my issue)

Thanks. Without any SEO difference there really is no reason for me to keep pounding away at this. I’ll just rest with my less than perfect choice of permalinks when I set up the site in August 2010 and let it go at that.

I really do appreciate all of your help.

Sincerely
Eyal

Thanks Ipstenu.

Not sure what domain/postname has to offer in comparison to domain/year/month/day/postname

Ideally (and only for SEO purposes), I would like to have domain/town/category/postname. Potentially I could use town under the optional category base in the permalink settings though that doesn’t seem to work regularly when i try it out.

Not sure why WP isn’t taking the domain/postname and following the set permalink rule to send that to domain/category base/category/postname

Thanks for your help and patience with all of this!

Turned off W3TC
Used the new rule and permalink

If I put in the category in permalink, external links broke. If I inserted the correct category into the url, it worked.

Changed it to /town/%postname%/ which seemed fine until I followed a Google Tag link which broke because its url was domain.com/tag/— and was missing /town/ before the /tag/

I’m not sure why WP isn’t correctly sending me to the address based on the permalink rules

I have reverted back to Day and Name permalink structure for now (ie YYYY/MM/DD). By the way, I’m only doing this with the expectation that it will make a big difference in my SEO. If the url words are not strong elements in SEO, I’m happy to drop this.

Thanks again,
E

Not sure if it matters but I do use W3 Total Cache and CloudFlare

I have emptied all caches after each step above

Almost.

It is now sending me to domain.com/postname

I need it to send me to domain.com/town/category/postname

I have tried custom permalink as /%category%/%postname% with a optional category of Town

And I’ve tried custom permalink as /town/%category%/%postname%

If I type into the url bar after getting a 404 and manually add in the /town/category it works! Do I need to add those to the end of the rule?

Also, internal links – such as when I manually inserted a link to another blog post in the text were also broken and led to a 404 page.

I reverted back to the year/month/day permalink for now.

Really hoping I can fix this though.

Hi
So I added the rewrite rule and updated the permalink structure
However, when following a link on my Facebook page (which has the yyyy/mm/dd/name structure) or Google links to specific posts, I get a 404 error.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
E

The town part is a fixed term by the way. I just realized that I chose a domain without a keyword I needed and was going to fix that by inserting the town name in the url as part of the permalink structure.