jimmyth

I wondered at first whether the plugin I used conflicted with my theme in some way, but when I tried a different SEO plugin it put the code in the same place. I thought it was unlikely that two highly rated professionals would make exactly the same mistake. The plug-ins are handy, I’ve gone back to All-in-one SEO. I suppose I could tinker with page code just to get the link exchange from this fellow but it’s not going to benefit me, will just make problems with every WordPress update. So I’m good with things the way they are. Screw the search engines! just let them try to find me, the good stuff is always buried deep.

No problem, not upset and I do understand where you are coming from on this point. I agree. This fellow just confronted me with an ultimatum, fix my page code or he won’t trade links with me because I’m doomed, DOOMED I TELLS YE! because my meta-tags aren’t in the right location in the HTML code. I just really don’t think that makes any sense, was wondering if somebody could clearly explain why I’m wrong to think that.

God bless you! That’s what I thought, if a computer is looking for meta something it doesn’t care if it’s in the first line or the billionth line, time is nothing to a computer.

I already told the guy, hey, thanks for the input, but I ain’t changing nothing. I deleted his response to just avoid unnecessary arguments.

Yeah, I know that pitch, but I would like some opinion on whether it matters AT ALL if the code is located under the title or just anywhere before the body. I don’t really think it does and apparently the creators of WordPress plugins agree.

My personal approach, since Google keeps f—ing with things, is just to write good stuff and let people find me. If there’s anything obviously wrong in terms of code on my site, I’d like to know and be able to fix it. I do ad layouts the way I want, I say what I want, and screw people who don’t like that.

I resolved my problem with Grouptivity the same way, and went on to using Share This. I did get the G plugin to work, but poorly–didn’t have problems logging into my account there. What I did not like about it was that if I used it to share a post on my blog at https://jamestwohats.com/BackPackBlog/ it sent the whole post, not a snippet. There’s no incentive for anyone to visit my site if it captures all the information. The plugin features didn’t work right with my layout and version of WordPress, but I placed it as an ad through Advertising Manager and got it to work.

Had to do the same thing with Share This, since it’s not updated for the latest Word Press the plugin features screwed up my page layout again, but as an ad module it works fine and goes where I want it go. Clean email look, as well.

Jimmy