The Stallion WordPress SEO Plugin Warnings is Stallion feature activated and loaded at the bottom of the Stallion SEO Advanced options page.
This feature makes no changes to the All In One SEO Pack Plugin or the Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin options etc… it is purely an information feature, basically informs you of the SEO mistakes and damage those WordPress SEO plugins can inflict on the average WordPress user that doesn’t fully understand SEO.
Did you know for example rel=”nofollow” and noindex deletes link benefit?
When active Stallion checks your
Stallion All In One WordPress SEO Plugin settings : For legacy reasons Stallion includes the damaging All In One SEO Settings (don’t use them).
Original All In One SEO Pack Plugin settings
Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin settings
Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin SEO Warnings
Good news is the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin author Joost de Valk finally removed the sitewide nofollow features (like nofollowing categories and comment links) which deleted a LOT of link benefit, but unfortunately still uses noindex (not as bad as nofollow) and includes nofollow on a post by post basis.
Since I can’t have code to check every single posts Yoast WordPress SEO settings if you are using the nofollow feature on your post/edit screens remember you are wasting a lot of link benefit.
Anyway, as you can see from the screenshot there’s a lot of possible SEO damage caused by the Yoast plugin! You can pretty much noindex and entire site and severely restrict a sites indexing.
For example if you noindex your categories, tags and other archives you waste all your second level link benefit. As link benefit flows from your homepage etc… through your categories and other archives around 155 of the link benefit is used to index and rank the archive pages. If you noindex your archives the 15% of link benefit achieves nothing, you throwing link benefit/PR away for no gain. It makes no SEO sense at all. If you plan to add a page to a site let Google etc… index it unless there’s a really good reason not to.
Stallion All In One SEO and Original All In One SEO Warnings
Since the Stallion All In One and the Original All In One SEO Plugin use the same option names we only need one warning feature for both.
If Stallion finds you are using damaging WordPress SEO features you’ll be warned what settings cause SEO damage.
The above is all you should see if you have the best WordPress SEO settings. If not you will see something like this:
If you see red warnings I strongly suggest go change your All In One SEO Options to remove them.
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Problem setting up Stallion theme
Hello
I am trying to uppgrade from Talian 5 plus SEO template to Stallion but when I try to get to the Stallion settings to enter my registered email address the following message appears and the theme reverts to the old theme.
‘You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page’
Any ideas?
Mark Bowles
How To Install the Stallion SEO Theme
Sounds like you are activating Stallion while all the files haven’t been uploaded. If some files are missing (like when you upload a theme using FTP) the theme assumes someone is trying to hack the activation system and deactivates Stallion and reactivates TwentyTen (default WordPress theme).
If you enter the wrong PayPal Id it also deactivates (going to change this in the next update as causing a lot of problems).
I recognised your name from the Talian comments and tracked down your email address (the antiques site) used to order Talian and have used it to send you a reminder of your ID (lots of customers are getting the PayPal IDs mixed up, there’s two of them!).
David
Stallion WordPress SEO Plugin
All working ok now
Hello David
I fixed the problem by installing the theme from the ‘install theme facility’ under the appearance tab and used the ID you sent me.
Just getting use to all the options available. Very impressive.
Thank you.
Mark Bowles
Google Pandat Update Noindex the New Nofollow?
Dave, I read that with the new Google Panda update (my sites got hit for whatever reason) that noindex directives on internal and external linking, or anything that tries to do anything with links took a demotion like nofollow links.
I do not know if this is true? They tried to out flank the SEOs basically. As the farmer update is basically anti-SEO.
This includes harder penalty for duplicate content and even ad placement.
What is your take on this and should I be concerned or take action to counter it? – Such as removing the block at at the top of the content or turn off no – index aspects?
Or add more complex navigation like the css navigation you have one your site?
Thanks as always.
Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin
Noindex isn't as bad SEO wise as nofollow
If you’ve read my Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin Review comment on noindex you’ll see I don’t recommend using noindex at all.
Noindex doesn’t delete link benefit like nofollow does, but noindex doesn’t use the link benefit as it passes through the noindexed pages, this is a waste of link benefit so should be avoided.
Since I don’t use nofollow or noindex on any of my sites IF Google is hitting sites using noindex/nofollow I’d not be affected, so no idea if it’s true. Like all ‘SEO facts’ reported on forums I take them with a large pinch of salt and if they might have an impact on my approach will test them. Since I’ll never use nofollow/noindex as they waste link benefit, I have no reason to test anything. My traffic is up again, last three days for example my sites are breaking 60,000 unique visitors a day.
Stallion out the box doesn’t waste link benefit on nofollow links as long as the site uses the GAT widgets: a few of the default non GAT widgets like the Meta widget do have nofollow links and so would waste link benefit. If you use a non GAT widget check it doesn’t add a nofollow link (view source of a page with the widget and check the code). Also login links and author comment links are using form buttons that aren’t counted as links by Google etc… basically a link that’s not a link, so the login links etc… don’t waste link benefit. The only nofollow links not automatically dealt with by Stallion are those in the main content of comments, if a commenter adds a link it might have a nofollow link. There’s settings within Stallion to deal with this along with some manual editing. You’ll note the links in the comments on this site (like the link at the top of this comment) are not nofollow, if a commenter adds a clickable link I manually edit it, I have it set this way so I can link from comments to my sites, not others link to their sites. You can also use the Stallion Link Cloaking to hide affiliate links etc… (I wouldn’t use this for internal links).
I take it you are worried about potential duplicate content issues with Categories, Tags archive pages etc… the duplicate content with WordPress concern is over rated as long as you use a theme like Stallion that takes an excerpt of the posts to form the Categories etc… If you use full posts for archive pages (like you see with the default TwentyTen WordPress theme) then yes you have the potential of duplicate content issues. With a theme like Stallion it’s highly unlikely because you are only showing excerpts. In Stallion you can set the size of excerpts, so if you tend to have very short posts you could set the excerpt to be very short so there’s no completely copied posts on archive pages.
I’ve got over 70 WordPress sites and have them all pretty much with the same setup and haven’t noticed any duplicate content issues.
BTW the CSS navigation on this site is built into Stallion. It uses the new WordPress Menu Manager so anyone running Stallion can build similar menus. I put the top navigation menu code at the bottom code wise for SEO reasons, so all those links are basically in the footer even though you see them in the header.
David
Stallion WordPress SEO Plugin
SEO WordPress plugins that do not help and what does help WordPress SEO
Dave, Your replies are as much SEO as assurance, coaching, confidence building etc. Thank you for such a detailed explanation.
I am drilling down to determine what exactly is causing a drop in the SERPs. It could be my writing style, the drop only happened this week and the Farmer update happened a while back but the Panda update a continuation of Google’s dance I think is this week.
I have a site or two that are up in the ranking (like the one my wife writes on). Hence, I think we can rule out the theme had anything to do with it.
You addressed the duplicate content issue with the FB like button in a reply to one of your readers ‘Erik’, that is not the issue or anything with the Stallion theme.
Therefore,I think it is either my navigation structure (I will look into this from a few angles) or simply my writing style or need more inter-linking (I will go back to your SEO plugin recommendations) or I have to go back to more content with some keyword focus, but this time longer tail.
I think one of the reasons your sites rank high is not only a great theme but a lot of user interaction on the comments.
A take away from this is going back and adding comments titles to important long comments with SEO in mind. All these things you have suggested.
By the way with the Google update, I search all over the web and I read people talking and writing long-winded thing, respectable people, but at the end, it is only speculation.
One thing I have learned is experts with SEO themes and plugins for WordPress are often not really experts. If I want to learn something of value about SEO my time is better spent subscribing to your RSS and reading comments on the Stallion site. It is more effcient than specualtion on the web.
Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin
Plugin dir inside Stallion Theme
David
I completely wiped my previous web site installation, including the mySQL databases – EVERYTHING! Files, databases the whole blooming lot! (Just to make sure I start with a clean slate and a virgin install.) I did not upgrade WordPress to 3.11, thus the current version is still on version 3.1.
Installed Stallion Theme without any hickups or problems – 1st time 100% OK.
I have zipped the plugin dir inside the Stallion Theme to install it as a plugin – I hope this is the correct way to do it
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When I upload the zipped plugin onto my site WordPress reports that it was installed successfully. Everything was honkey dorey and plain sailing up to this point.
Looking at my plugins I can see 2 new plugins:
1. hikari-titled-comments
2. stallion-stop-stupid-spambots
I am also using the MPP plugin from Bill McCrea – when I Network Active the plugins I am getting the errors below. I tried first the one then the other and the other way round, just in case the one is dependent on the other – either way round results in a fatal error.
“Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.”
Uninstall & Deleting the files and uploading again also did not resolve the issue – fatal error everytime when one tries to network activate.
Below the two errors:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare hktc_get_comment_title() (previously declared in /home/barry/public_html/wp-content/themes/stallion-seo-theme/plugins/hikari-titled-comments.php:29) in /home/barry/public_html/wp-content/plugins/stallion-seo-super-plugins/hikari-titled-comments.php on line 41
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare check_http_referer() (previously declared in /home/barry/public_html/wp-content/themes/stallion-seo-theme/plugins/stallion-stop-stupid-spambots.php:11) in /home/barry/public_html/wp-content/plugins/stallion-seo-super-plugins/stallion-stop-stupid-spambots.php on line 27
Any work-around or quick fix? Or should I just NOT install the plugin? For now I will just delete them but you should be aware of this minor issue or possible bug I have encountered. It could also be that they are not Multi-site compatible?
Take care
Barry
Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin
Stallion Theme Built In WordPress Plugins
Looks like you’ve copied the Stallion built in plugins to your WordPress plugins directory and activated them twice.
Although a WordPress plugin is generally located in the plugins directory it doesn’t have to be, in fact a theme is a plugin (addon) as it adds something not built directly into WordPress core (obviously unlike plugins you can’t run WordPress without a theme, but it is just an addon to WordPress core).
So you can have plugins within a theme and that’s what some of the Stallion features are, snippets of plugin code (or just code) built directly into the theme files rather than having a separate plugin.
There is no need to move the Stallion built in plugins to the plugins directory, just leave them as they are and activate within the Stallion options pages.
You should delete the plugin files you’ve copied to the plugins folder and activate within Stallion. In the case of the Hikari Title Comments Plugin if the author updates the plugin (adds new features for example) you could deactivate the Stallion version and install the new version like any other plugin (what you can’t do is install it twice). Most of the plugins I’ve added to Stallion have been edited (improved), the Hikari plugin is an exception in that I made no code changes.
David
Stallion WordPress SEO Plugin
If you are trying to be clever ....
Thanks for the reply David! Appreciated.
This happens when you THINK you are clever – then you do STUPID things …
Removed the files.
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