Gwythan

What’s the difference in how you’ve set up ‘Dog Separation Anxiety’ verses the other menu items. This one is indeed set to rel=”index follow”

The fix might be to install and SEO plugin, like WordPress SEO by Yoast, which has specific setting for the rel attributes.

You condition “if (!($i%1))” will always return true, so it will never see the $i%2 condition. Try reversing the logic here, doing mod 2 first:

if (!($i%2)) {
echo ‘custom-posts-right’
} else {
echo ‘custom-posts-left’;
}

Hi,

What does the Search Queries data of your Google Webmaster’s account show?

According to Alexa (https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/gas-mileage-enhancers.com), the top 5 search terms for your site are:

getting better gas mileage
can tires give better gas milage
catalytic converter gas mileage
improve mileage
will rebuilding an engine increase mpg

It doesn’t rank for ‘gas mileage’ or ‘best gas mileage’.

Not ranking for a term does mean an SEO problem. Looking at your site, you may have over done the keywords “Gas Mileage” and “Best Gas Mileage”. It’s everywhere! Google would consider this ‘keyword stuffing’ and penalize you for these terms.

My advice is to post more articles without these keywords in the title, H1 and H2 to try and dilute these terms to a smaller percentage of the overall articles on your website. A good start would be to write article based on the major search terms you are already ranking for (as above).

Syndicating further than Facebook will certainly help Google realign it’s indexing of your search terms “stuffing” as you do this. I have developed a plugin that will syndicate to half a dozen major social networks. It’s currently on a private offering, but I’m happy for you to try it if you want, just email me via the contact form on my new website: lucrativeim.com

I’m determined to see you rank well for the terms you want!

— Kevin.

Hi ppinoski,

As long as you are sure of the SEO structure of your website, then your website may not be the cause of the lost search engine ranking. Instead, it may have been penalised by one of the many Google algorithm updates released since August.

How have you done the link building for your website? Have you got a lot of links coming from non-relevant websites? How much social community do you have built around your websites? Do you post fresh, relevant content regularly and syndicate it?

A large number of irrelevant back links will penalise your website ranking. A lack of social proof (Facebook likes, tweets, social bookmarks, etc) will mean less favourable ranking over competitor websites that have this..

More than anything, fresh relevant content is now key to good Google ranking.

If all of this traffic is legitimate (not spam traffic) it’s probably time to upgrade your hosting package, or move to another host with higher capacity.

I wrote a post about controlling Spam comments, but there may be some ideas here that you’re not implementing, such as using the comment moderation words list and asking your subscribers to register on your website first, or use a Facebook comments system.

Here’s the link:
https://www.lucrativeim.com/three-ways-to-stop-spam-comments-in-wordpress/

If you have a lots of large-sized photos on your blog, it is possible that your disk is full. Log into your web hosting CPanel and look at the disk space allocation you have.

Try this one:

https://codecanyon.net/item/subscribe-popup/2421232

Do a search in the WordPress Plugins Directory for “submissions”.

I turned up this one for example:

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/wp-submission/

Have you installed a plugin recently? It may be corrupted.

If you have, login via FTP, or via the File Manager of your CPanel and remove the folder containing this plugin.

Very odd. It seems to be a permissions issue at Gravatar.

Hi Linda,

If you don’t want to add a plugin to do this then your only other option is use a theme that already has this built in.

— Kevin.

You can only fix this in your database. Here’s a list of choices and instructions on how to do this:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Changing_The_Site_URL

Personally, I would use a plugin that puts your website in ‘maintenance’ or ‘under construction’ mode., This way your website address is still active, but only the Administrator can see the posts.

Alternatively, you can republish your posts and page as ‘Private’:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Content_Visibility

If you make everything Private though, Google will encounter Page Not Found errors and drive your website ranking down.

Yes, you can use HTML entities to describe the single and double quotes instead of str_replace():

htmlentities($str, ENT_QUOTES, “UTF-8”);