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Note that Google rolled out new version of PANDA recently. They continue to refine placement, and are putting emphasis on mobile friendly, ORIGINAL CONTENT, “answers to questions,” https capability, pagespeed insights, sitemaps, and the usual stuff still relevant:
a) inbound links from organic sites, not paid text links or text ads, help placement
b) blocking bad links from “bad sites” such as low quality scrapers – you can disavow bad sites (we do this with sites like ‘searchnaked’ which had thousands of links to us)
c) proper schema markup
d) limit junk posts (e.g., youtube video and one sentence — is not original content)
e) limit content you “steal” from other sites then link to them as source — write your own version, get your own photo; that helps your ranking
f) site structure matters; good navigation, prioritize the POST over categories, tags, etc.
g) don’t sell text links, avoid popups, interstitials that block content loading for Google bot
h) READ the free Google guide to best practices for SEO
i) write original headlines – check your headline to see if it already exists; do something different!
j) posts should have at least 5 paragraphs so it looks like original post and not excerpt of another post
k) don’t use “next page” for home page; conflicts with your category indexes
l) update site regularly — updates every 6 weeks shows lack of new content
m) create your own images where possible, vs copying somebody else’s
n) learn to use your Google webmaster tools (now “console”) properly
o) don’t overload pages with too many ad modules from adsense, amazon, other ad system, etc. — too many ads pollutes your pages
p) use h tags for your relevant subheads in your posts, not just bold sub heads — couch your subheads as answers to questions people might ask “The right way to boil spaghetti” … etc.
q) make sure guest posts are not also being posted on other sites (!!)
r) share the heck out of your posts to social media, but use the social media worth sharing to and ignore the stuff nobody uses anymore (sorry, delicious, diigo, Technorati, etc.)
s) don’t use sock puppets for clicking your ads; paid likes on social media; or similar
t) answer comments on your posts to create dialog
u) make backups of your site often and carefully (!) — if your system crashes, and you’re off the web for prolonged period of time — very bad for SEO after xx days
v) do you have a backup plan if your host goes out of business, or GoDaddy DNS crashes again and your site is down?
w) consider spending a small amount on Google ads to promote your best posts or site on the topic you most want to be found under, like “horse breeding” or whatever
x) make sure your site is verified with all the top search engines
y) ignore stupid things like so called “ranking sites” like Alexa which are completely wrong on traffic, including their inability to track shortcode use
z) check your site regularly to ensure it’s secure ! Make sure you have security plan. Make sure you have privacy policy on your site.

Share and enjoy! 🙂

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NOT FOR REPUBLICATION!

Hi Again,

3. the read more button to appear as just text:
I’m using a child theme, so my style.css doesn’t include all code.
So this is what I added to my style.css:
.td-read-more a {
background-color: #ffffff;
border-radius: 0px;
color: #bc00a8;
font-size: 14px;
font-weight: bold;
line-height: 18px;
padding: 0px;
}
.td-read-more a:hover {
background-color: #ffffff;
}

The only thing is that on hover, the background color still shows up. It’s the same colour as the text, so on hover, it just becomes a pink block. I’d like to make it just change from pink to black on hover. Can you help?

Thanks SOOOO much =)
C

I succeeded in cancel ALL tag from mega menu,
but not from blocks

the solution you gave about this issue in your posts #39517 and #40801 are not still doable with td_block.php in Newspaper 6 (or I cannot find the exact code!)

I need:
– to cancel ALL tag from every block
– and not to show sub-sub categories in every block

Yes, its that that i seek, I loved this effect and want to use it on a text block on the home. If is not possible replicate the categories effect then i am thinking in create a “fake” categorie with the only propose of use for that, maybe can work…

Thanks for the help!!

Story titles on home page should not be H1, but you can add a “box” with some info about your site with H1 tags, by simply creating a text block on top/bottom, or sidebar on your home page to have a paragraph or title about your site.

H1 tags for stories on home page serve no purpose as they are temporary as your news changes and are intended to be related to a “title” for the page (comparable to the title tag in your meta data), and not headlines from stories.

Similarly story titles in blocks don’t need to be any specific H1 for semantic purposes, as any “H” implies a headline vs a paragraph.

Hi

I think you refer at Visual Composer elements like blocks, widgets and others. By default should appear but if this are missing follow this link to enable all: http://screencast.com/t/Zz1MnVkIMIFM If the problem doesn’t solve try without plugins, leave just VC active.
Please provide more details if this is not what you mean.

Let me know how it goes!

Hi

This block titles are made with Newspaper theme and are not available on Newsmag, but can be done with custom css:

.block-title{
display: block;
font-size: 14px;
border-bottom: 2px solid #222222;
margin-right: 20px!important;

}
.block-title > span{
top:0;
padding: 7px 12px 4px 12px;
border-radius: 0;
}

The result should be like here: http://screencast.com/t/sTmFBI2k6NUd

Thanks!

Hi

You can customize the actual author box editing td_block_authors.php file and adding this code: http://pastebin.com/4DbvKd14 like here: http://screencast.com/t/Y8CM9lS0GVf6
This should display author socials and description in author box block.
Let me know how it goes!

Thanks!

What are the recommended images sizes in the settings page? Not the theme panel block settings.

As we are not using the default which coule be creating an issue?

Thanks so much for the help with this.

That didn’t actually solve the problem, as it ended up creating two columns, with the block quote text being placed to the left of the text block which had originally been below this. All I was actually trying to do was have the default text within the block quote set to left alignment, NOT centre alignment. How can this be done?

Also, I’m running into a really annoying problem with the block quote text becoming all caps, even after I set it to “none (normal text)” within the theme panel. Here are the steps I’m taking:

1) Theme panel options are set to the following:
a) Post Content
b) Default block quote
c) Transform > set to “none (normal) text)
***Here is a screenshot of the above: http://grab.by/Jbyg

2) Post text is written, with no special formatting:
http://grab.by/Jbyi

3) Text block is added in the visual composer:
http://grab.by/Jbym

4) Text from step two is pasted:
http://grab.by/Jbys

5) “Block quote” button is pressed within the text block visual composer screen:
http://grab.by/JbyA

6) The text is AUTOMATICALLY SET TO UPPERCASE, even though default block quote text was set to “none (normal text)” as seen in step 1.

Can you please help me out with this? Why are my settings that are set in the theme panel being ignored?

Can you help me to set the following functions as default for block quote text?

A) Left text, NOT centre text
B) No special text transform on the block quote text.

Thanks!

-Richard