My website has picked up another websites SEO?

Hmm… *wild guess*

Looks like meta issues – you have not used a meta description. I only see a meta name in the index file. That could possibly be the issue.

Thank You

I have just tried entering a meta description into the header.php file.

<meta name=”description” content=”Irish Dress Designer, Irish Clothing Designer, Irish Fashion Designer.” />

Is this correct?

Another issue I am faced with is I didn’t create the website initially.

I am pretty new to WordPress so excuse my lack of understanding but if I edit the template files do they automatically edit the website structure or do I have to upload again through an ftp client or in WordPress?

Thanks

Hi,

The first page looks like a static page that redirects tot he home folder for the wordpress site. You only need to edit the index.php (index.html) file and add the meta description.

The wordpress site can be left alone for now.

Hi Archie,

Thank You for helping out. Where in the index.php template do I insert

<meta name="description" content="Irish Dress Designer, Irish Clothing Designer, Irish Fashion Designer." />

This is content of the template index.php …

<?php get_header(); ?>

			<h1 class="page-title">
				<?php
				$blog_page = get_option('tz_blog_page');
				$meta = get_post_meta($blog_page, 'heading_value', true);

				if($meta != ''):
					echo $meta;
				else:
					_e('The Blog', 'framework');
				endif;
				?>
            </h1>

			<!--BEGIN #primary .hfeed-->
			<div id="primary" class="hfeed">

			<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

				<!--BEGIN .hentry -->
				<div <?php post_class(); ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">	

					<h2 class="entry-title"><a>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php printf(__('Permanent Link to %s', 'framework'), get_the_title()); ?>"> <?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

                    <?php /* if the post has a WP 2.9+ Thumbnail */
					if ( (function_exists('has_post_thumbnail')) && (has_post_thumbnail()) ) { ?>
					<div class="post-thumb">
						<a>" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail('thumbnail-archive'); /* post thumbnail settings configured in functions.php */ ?></a>
					</div>
					<?php } ?>

					<!--BEGIN .clearfix -->
                    <div class="clearfix">		

                        <!--BEGIN .entry-meta .entry-header-->
                        <div class="entry-meta entry-header">
                            <span class="author"><?php _e('By', 'framework') ?> <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?></span>
                            <span class="published"><?php _e('On', 'framework') ?> <strong><?php the_time( get_option('date_format') ); ?></strong></span>
                            <span class="entry-categories"><?php _e('In', 'framework') ?> <?php the_category(', ') ?></span>
                            <span class="comment-count"><?php _e('With', 'framework') ?> <?php comments_popup_link(__('No Comments', 'framework'), __('1 Comment', 'framework'), __('% Comments', 'framework')); ?></span>
                            <span class="permalink"><img src="<?php echo get_template_directory_uri(); ?>/images/permalink_icon.png" alt="<?php printf(__('Permanent Link to %s', 'framework'), get_the_title()); ?>" /><a>" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php _e('Permalink', 'framework') ?></a></span>
                            <?php edit_post_link( __('edit', 'framework'), '<span class="edit-post">[', ']</span>' ); ?>
                        <!--END .entry-meta entry-header -->
                        </div>

                        <!--BEGIN .entry-content -->
                        <div class="entry-content ">
                            <?php the_content(__('Continue Reading →', 'framework')); ?>
                        <!--END .entry-content -->
                        </div>

                    <!--END .clearfix -->
				    </div>     

				<!--END .hentry-->
				</div>

				<?php endwhile; ?>

			<!--BEGIN .navigation .page-navigation -->
			<div class="navigation page-navigation">
				<div class="nav-next"><?php next_posts_link(__('← Older Entries', 'framework')) ?></div>
				<div class="nav-previous"><?php previous_posts_link(__('Newer Entries →', 'framework')) ?></div>
			<!--END .navigation .page-navigation -->
			</div>

			<?php else : ?>

				<!--BEGIN #post-0-->
				<div id="post-0" <?php post_class(); ?>>

					<h2 class="entry-title"><?php _e('Error 404 - Not Found', 'framework') ?></h2>

					<!--BEGIN .entry-content-->
					<div class="entry-content">
						<p><?php _e("Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.", "framework") ?></p>
					<!--END .entry-content-->
					</div>

				<!--END #post-0-->
				</div>

			<?php endif; ?>
			<!--END #primary .hfeed-->
			</div>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

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Hi,

That looks like a wrong file. The file should be within your main website directory, ie: https://www.index.php (index.html)

The source should look like: https://codepen.io/Archie22is/pen/FHdsg

You can then insert your meta description between line 7 – 9.

What theme are you using? Where did you download it from?

Emsi is my mentor… you are in good hands ??

The theme is Classica. I was trying to put the theme on a different hosting for a friend as I had lots of space but it didn’t quite go to plan so I left it on blacknight hosting. Someone else purchased and downloaded the theme then created the website initially.

I had transferred files of Jo-kingdresses.com to 1and1 for a day and it seems to have picked up the description of one of my websites hosted with 1and1.

Thanks

You could confirm that this is a theme problem by temporarily switching to the default 2012 theme & seeing if that helps.

Generally speaking, themes do not handle SEO (beyond the meta title for your site’s pages) and neither does WordPress core. If you want to manage your site’s SEO, you’d usually install an SEO plugin. That said, some themes may try to generate some SEO tags – like keyword and/or description. As you are using a commercial theme, you need to seek this kind of theme-specific support from the theme’s developer/vendor. We do not support commercial themes here. Try https://themeforest.net/user/OrmanClark

Also, do try to allow Google to catch up with the changes that you’ve been making. It may take a few days for its index to update – assuming it is indexing your site fairly frequently.

Thank you so much for your help. I will contact the developer.

Kind Regards,
Glenda