iRedCord

sorry didn’t do the link correctly
my site is iRedCord.com

nice site –

I answer as we are in the same type of business

your robots.txt file is in the public_html directory on your hosting server

you need to change this file to remove the disallow

your designer may have put the disallow in the file during the design and launch process to make sure the site was not indexed while under development – hard to say what the story might be but this is a rather definitive way to make sure google does not see or index your site

to make the changes to the file you can go to your hosting provider or the provider usually has tools that you have access to to edit files on the server

you also might use FileZilla to access files on your hosting server

at a very simple level your robots.txt file needs to look something like this:

User-Agent: *?
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/

the above disallows wp-content plugins

you may chose to disallow other files or types of files you do not want google to index

do you know about google webmaster tools?

are you doing anything about SEO?

I am not expert enough to say how each theme interacts with products, yoast, and CSV import. I am using Canvas (latest version) and WooCommerce.

When I do the export I also tick the box include hidden meta data (but this seems to be the meta data for WooCommerce.

I’ve not (so far) had the problem of the import values not showing up – but my values have always been changes to fields for existing products – I’ve not created a product from the CSV import since I activated Yoast. (I did use CSV to create products before I put Yoast live).

When I export my product file – I’ve been using excel to be able to easily change values in the Yoast fields then re-import to my site – iRedCord.com

I have one more value in the Yoast fields than they gave you, but this field is always blank and I don’t use it – the focus key word value:

meta:_yoast_wpseo_focuskw (column AM)
meta:_yoast_wpseo_title (column AN)
meta:_yoast_wpseo_metadesc (column AO)
meta:_yoast_wpseo_metakeywords (column AP)

If I understand you correctly – you are finding your values in the database but within your theme you are not seeing the values populated? seems like their is an issue between your theme – yoast – csv import. I am sorry but I can’t debug what is occurring for you.

yes but you need to be very careful – I am using woocommerce – and CSV Import Suite which is a premium plug in – how many products do you have?

as I was “nervous” about the import – I did 3-4 products – then exported, went over what I was actually seeing – then tried an import for a few products to get the hang of it all.

some small comments

you do not have browser caching,

you can further optimize some of your images,

you seem to have several redirects,

you have several DNS lookups which have an impact on speed,

you have an issue with your google analytics,

you have an issue with Jetpac,

you have an issue with something called plus.png,

…

use some of the analysis tools out there pingdom, GTmetrix, Sprout, YSlow …
these will help you trace some of your speed issues,

From most of what I see your speed issues are a bit self inflicted …

some small comments

you do not have browser caching,

you can further optimize some of your images,

you seem to have several redirects,

you have several DNS lookups which have an impact on speed,

you have an issue with your google analytics,

you have an issue with Jetpac,

you have an issue with something called plus.png,

…

use some of the analysis tools out there pingdom, GTmetrix, Sprout, YSlow …
these will help you trace some of your speed issues,

From most of what I see your speed issues are a bit self inflicted …

Ok – am stupid – but I can’t see how to attach screen shots to these posts?

eICHAVALdelaWeb

I did some surface testing on the new plug in version using the default settings.

Brings the Pingdom perf grade to 96 … speed improves some also,

Still clobbers my header ring on the site but I’ve not tried to play around with the settings or trace where or why this is happening.

I will test again with some detail tonight or during the weekend and let you know.

For the moment I deactivated the plug in but I can activate it if you want to take a look,
let me know.

By the way thanks …

let me know how it works out for you

SEO on the main menu
Titles & Metas on SEO menu
HELP while in Titles & Metas

Is this what you are looking for?

Basic Variables.

%%date%% Replaced with the date of the post/page
%%title%% Replaced with the title of the post/page
%%sitename%% The site’s name
%%sitedesc%% The site’s tagline / description
%%excerpt%% Replaced with the post/page excerpt (or auto-generated if it does not exist)
%%excerpt_only%% Replaced with the post/page excerpt (without auto-generation)
%%tag%% Replaced with the current tag/tags
%%category%% Replaced with the post categories (comma separated)
%%category_description%% Replaced with the category description
%%tag_description%% Replaced with the tag description
%%term_description%% Replaced with the term description
%%term_title%% Replaced with the term name
%%searchphrase%% Replaced with the current search phrase
%%sep%% The separator defined in your theme’s wp_title() tag.

Advanced Variables.

%%pt_single%% Replaced with the post type single label
%%pt_plural%% Replaced with the post type plural label
%%modified%% Replaced with the post/page modified time
%%id%% Replaced with the post/page ID
%%name%% Replaced with the post/page author’s ‘nicename’
%%userid%% Replaced with the post/page author’s userid
%%currenttime%% Replaced with the current time
%%currentdate%% Replaced with the current date
%%currentday%% Replaced with the current day
%%currentmonth%% Replaced with the current month
%%currentyear%% Replaced with the current year
%%page%% Replaced with the current page number (i.e. page 2 of 4)
%%pagetotal%% Replaced with the current page total
%%pagenumber%% Replaced with the current page number
%%caption%% Attachment caption
%%focuskw%% Replaced with the posts focus keyword
%%term404%% Replaced with the slug which caused the 404
%%cf_<custom-field-name>%% Replaced with a posts custom field value
%%ct_<custom-tax-name>%% Replaced with a posts custom taxonomies, comma separated.
%%ct_desc_<custom-tax-name>%% Replaced with a custom taxonomies description

Thanks to you both – Boris – eICHAVAL –

– am working still on SEO and next step starting the translations –

thanks … like your site – and it’s fast! very nice load time.

I have gotten through most issues, what’s left is remove query strings from static resources. the “?” remains in ajax and some other strings – I am seeing things like:

https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.2/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css?ver=3.6.1
https://iredcord.com/wp-content/plugins/theme-my-login/modules/ajax/css/ajax.css?ver=3.6.1
https://iredcord.com/wp-content/plugins/theme-my-login/modules/ajax/js/ajax.js?ver=3.6.1
https://iredcord.com/wp-content/plugins/theme-my-login/theme-my-login.css?ver=6.3.8
https://iredcord.com/wp-content/plugins/woocommerce-grid-list-toggle/assets/css/button.css?ver=3.6.1
https://iredcord.com/wp-content/plugins/woocommerce-grid-list-toggle/assets/css/style.css?ver=3.6.1
https://iredcord.com/wp-content/plugins/woocommerce-grid-list-toggle/assets/js/jquery.cookie.min.js?ver=3.6.1
https://iredcord.com/wp-content/plugins/woocommerce-grid-list-toggle/assets/js/jquery.gridlistview.min.js?ver=3.6.1
https://iredcord.com/wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/assets/js/frontend/add-to-cart.min.js?ver=2.0.14
https://iredcord.com/wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/assets/js/frontend/cart-fragments.min.js?ver=2.0.14
https://iredcord.com/wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/assets/js/frontend/woocommerce.min.js?ver=2.0.14
https://iredcord.com/wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/assets/js/jquery-blockui/jquery.blockUI.min.js?ver=2.60
https://iredcord.com/wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/assets/js/jquery-cookie/jquery.cookie.min.js?ver=1.3.1
https://iredcord.com/wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/assets/js/jquery-placeholder/jquery.placeholder.min.js?ver=2.0.14
https://iredcord.com/wp-content/plugins/woodojo/bundled/woodojo-tabs/assets/css/style.css?ver=3.6.1
https://iredcord.com/wp-content/plugins/woodojo/bundled/woodojo-tabs/assets/js/functions.js?ver=1.0.0

Have you found the reason for this?

I have been looking everywhere and I am sure the reason is simple but I’ve not found anything to explain why some lines in Google WebMaster Tools Sitemap are in bold and others not.

What does the bold indicate?

I am seeing the same thing … I google is returning a crawl error URL not found for these items which are not listed on my site map. They seem to be coming from the order by on the product category display … so I am seeing /page/2/?orderby= in the craw error.

I thought the indexing page2 etc would stop this but I don’t see how to stop google from crawling secondary order by pages.

Any ideas?

kim

there is no way to make the plug in work as it should that I could find