SEO suggestions V2

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Hi All

I’m still loving TTG Backlight… Still using Pangolin. These are suggestions for improving SEO.

Provide access to content for IPTC “Alt Text” to be used for images. Right now I’m using “Category”.

Need an “H1” tag for thumbnails. I already have it for individual pages via PHPPlugins and plan on seeing if I can to the same for thumbnails page.

Provide a method for “load more” or “see more images” after a certain number of images have been displayed i.e. initially 9-12 images. This means all images for a particular category/topic can be contained in one page but still be highly ranked by Google for speed/mobile use.“Page 2” is otherwise discounted/diminished by Google for a variety of reasons. Happy to provide more info on this. I used to cap initial page to 12-16 images but now I just lump everything for a particular category/subject into one page which adds more authority to the page. I do realize “lazy load” is being implemented.

Look at PageSpeed Insights reports for current thumbnail pages to see if there is anything that’s easier/possible to improve on. Right now, I’m getting a score of around 75 for 29 images which isn’t bad. I have lazy load set for over 6 images. I can send you a link to page in private mail.

FWIW, I would gladly pay for a new version that was improved for today’s SEO, and that’s not to say what we have now is not good. It definitely works for long tail searches. I have more notes I could add if interested.

pj

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My new host, IONOS, as part of their SEO recommendations suggests creating and maintaining a sitemap.xml file which lists all subpages for a website. The file is apparently used by search engines to direct them to all pages on a site and improve overall exposure.

As a first pass, I attempted to use the site, https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/, suggested by IONOS but it reports, “blocked by robots meta tag” I tried renaming my robots.txt file in my root but the site still reported an error. I’ll need to think on this a bit more.

Ultimately, we may be able to add the option in Backlight. An interesting blog a few days ago suggested that rather soon bots will exceed human visitors and we collectively need to think about how we develop our sites to take advantage of this evolutionary process.

James.

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I had a full tutorial on this at some point. I think it might have been on the old WordPress blog. Unfortunately, it’s crashed at the moment, and I haven’t bothered to investigate fixing it.

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I fixed my old, stupid WordPress blog. Here’s the sitemap tutorial: