I’ve noticed that a lot of travel website pages that have content search filters are listed as having many more keyword occurrences that actually appear on the page. For example, this site: http://www.visitkilkenny.ie/
When I did a keyword search for this homepage it says the word “kilkenny” appears 103 times on this page — and yet it doesn’t to my eye. I’ve found the same kind of results on search results pages for things like Tripadvisor.com.
Does anyone know how the keyword is “appearing” so many more times than we can actually see? Is this because of the search filter on these pages?
Did you look at the actual page source to see what is on the page?
Could be a class, could be jump link ID, could be something else ‘on page’ which then shows up in a non-quoted search.
WordPress has a terrible search engine, so comparing WP to any site *not* using built-in WP search really has no point for any conversation.
Not sure that helped 😉
( I don’t work here; but resident smarty pants )
Hi, Chris. I’m a big fan of yours on the Tagdiv forum. You always give such great answers! I was actually checking out your website the other day — the one on your Tagdiv forum profile. Is that still active? I saw a 2013 date and wondered if you have a new site for your biz. I could use some help getting my site up to speed (literally). Are you for hire by the hour?
Anyhow, thanks for the reply. I took a look at the page source (as best as I could…) and I couldn’t see what could be causing this. I’m really curious to know the answer since I’ve seen it now with several sites. Or maybe it’s that the tool I used is flawed in some sense for understand keyword density. It’s http://tools.seobook.com/general/keyword-density/. Do you ever use it?
Hi, Chris. On a separate note, would you be willing to check out this thread I started and weigh in if you have time? Basically I’m interested in adding some schema markup to posts, but it looks like Newspaper will override them every time I update it. I’m wondering if you add markup to posts and how you get around this? Also, I’m new to this markup stuff. Could I add it to the header code for the post in the editing panel? I’ve been researching this for days and can’t yet find anyone who shows exactly how to insert it (and the plugins I’ve found so far offer a very limited number of markup categories).
Thanks in advance if you can help shed light on this in any way! 🙂
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/google-rich-cards-and-json-ld-markup/
Howdy … I have no idea which site is on my profile here, sadly, so might have to peek at that 😉 I actually have a main business site which hasn’t been updated in years, as I’m building my own WP theme from scratch for first time since 2011 for various reasons, from Bootstrap 3.x. But I manage a news network which uses TagDiv themes, and our main news ‘parent’ online since 2000 is mix of static shtml with 100/100 pagespeed score, and then news platform running on WP, but with a semi-custom theme not running TD, due to fact we started that prior to TD being in business and way too much hacking to switch.
As general rule for hacks:
a) yes, if you update theme, they get over-written as common sense — if you edit functions.php and then update theme, it uploads new file, so old one is gone. So, common method is to keep track of changed files, and edits by line number, then re-apply to new theme, then upload new theme with the same hacks applied (FTP, and I use TextPad on Win10, or BBEdit on Mac).
b) what I’ve started to do, with this new theme from scratch project, is move all mods to a plugin. This allows me to keep hacks, security mods, speed mods, inserts, RSS hacks, etc. in “one place.” — This is useful for stuff you don’t want to change every time with TD or other themes, but can’t always address stuff you actually do hack. — For instance, I take out the login code from TD theme headers. Have to do that every time. I also remove the xmlrpc, pingback or any of that stuff. == but again, with WP, you can often create your own plugin with a function to ‘enqueue’ something to the WP header, and this gets inserted to WP header, same way the theme panel does, but if you put it in your own plugin (which is insanely easy to do), then it survives theme update.
Not sure that helps — but food for thought. Thanks for kind words.
Also, I stopped posting links to my sites here as they end up getting barrage of hack attempts due to popularity of TD themes and a few bad actors lurking here.
As to JSON, I’m just learning how to build that from scratch myself, for this new ‘in house’ theme project — so, guess what I’m doing this coming Saturday! 🙂
Sounds like you have a busy weekend! Thanks for all that great advice. You rock! (Yeah, your site that I looked at seemed dated to 2013 re: its last entry.) Hey, one other thing re: my question about adding an H1 header on my custom home page. I added one as we talked about and then ran it through browseo.net. But I saw that there was already an H1 on that page — it does recognize the page title as H1 even though there’s no slug. Or maybe I misunderstood what you told me… Anyhow, I took out the H1 I added and there’s only the page title H1 now…
