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Ok, I think I got the answer for first question.
No, it is not mandatory to use featured images. It is just that your plugin wants one image in a blog post whether featured or not.

Please answer the 2nd question.

Thank You!

Yes, this is what I was asking. Minimum no of words does not trigger for before/after content option.

I would like to put an ad after content for posts having more than 200 words. How should I approach in this case?

That seems to have done the trick. I hope it won’t affect the performance of my site?

I would suggest you to make Minimum page/post words setting available for all “Automatic Display” type options. As of now, it is only available for paragraph option. Most people don’t like to show ads when they have little content available on a post.

Thanks for your help and great plugin! Will send a shout-out soon from my blog.

As I see , Plugin is not respecting Minimum page/post words. I have set that to 200 as per your advise.

Check this post https://www.learnqtp.com/definitions/array/ which hardly has 54 words but it is still showing top ad.

@g0rd: Thanks for clarifying that. I stand corrected.

Did some more digging and found this from Google.

https://developers.google.com/webmasters/control-crawl-index/docs/robots_txt

As far as I know, robots.txt doesn’t understand Allow tag.

Anything not under Disallow tag is automatically allowed.

Yes, Same here!
I also received warning about an hour back.

For some reason, Google bot wants to see some CSS and JS files. Not sure if it is a genuine warning we should care about?

Right click anywhere on your site (preferably in the blank area) and you will see one of the items as “View page source”

It’s a simple htaceess hack. Check Google.

This is not the problem of WP super cache. As I see in your source code, you have asked the robots to noindex the site. Here is the proof

view-source:https://www.van-gogh.be/

remove noindex and you should be fine.

All the best!

For you and anyone else new to SEO, here is what you should note –

1. As long as source (View > Source) shows the description what you have intended, you should be fine.

2. You can’t control what Google does and does not show for a site snippet. Site snippet can 1) show your description, 2) it may show some text from the article. It also depends upon the keyword searched for.

Hope that helps!

Non – www version of your sitemap should redirect to the www version OR vice-versa.

As long as your 301 redirects are fine, you shouldn’t worry about them.

Ok, nice.

How do you handle home page in that case? (since you don’t want the word Mashable repeating there.

Normally they are structured as Mashable | A Tech blog but in this case it would become Mashable | A Tech blog | Mashable

Will you use a conditional statement in the header.php and check for home page? or do you have any better way?

@stemalo: 1, 2 is optimization for Facebook, it’s a normal behavior.

1 – for search engines
2 – for facebook
3 – This is your site name in WordPress settings. You can change that to any value you wish to.

Hope that helps!

ah, so what I thought turned out to be correct.

@neilgee: This looks like a major feature which Yoast WP SEO plugin has not implemented and which comes out-of-the-box with AIOS.

Let me explain a bit more.

In almost all themes of today, WordPress post title field becomes an “h1” header in a post while Yoast SEO title field becomes a “title” of the post.

If I keep Yoast SEO title field as-it-is (ie I don’t write anything inside), it will take the default value from wordpress post title field and append it with the template defined – so far so good.

but what if I want to customize the Yoast title field?

So I want “h1” header to be WP post title field (How to tie a tie?) while I want “title” to be say

“Check how to tie a tie | Mashable“

My question is that ideally WP Yoast SEO plugin should not require us to write the last part of string (| Mashable) in the Yoast SEO title box. It should take that automatically from the template but that doesn’t happen here. However I am used to such a feature in AIOS.

I hope I was able to make myself clear. Please let me know if I am wrong in my thinking here.

Thanks!