I am trying to add a "load more" RSS feed button functionality to my site. I am currently pulling in blog posts from my WP blog site into my main site with Simplepie. It works great and I have set the $max_items to 3 but I can't seem to find any tutorial or documentation on how to add a "load more" button with Simplepie.
I've been searching around the internet and the Simplepie documentation, but I still am not able to find anything on this matter.
Can someone please help me or point me towards a tutorial for this?
Much Thanks!
The "Load More" feature is kinda a part of the News Blocks Demo 2.0. Many RSS feeds only provide a limited number of posts or only consider chronologically recent posts. I don't think there is anything in the standard where you can just say "give me more". The way News Blocks works is it fetches as many posts as it can, then only displays the first X, when you click "more" it displays the rest. Good luck.
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Google displays my website’s page title differently to how it is meant to be.
The page title should be:
Graphic Designer Brighton and Lewes | Lewis Wallis Graphic Design
It displays fine in Bing, Yahoo and on my actual website.
However, Google displays it differently:
Lewis Wallis Graphic Design: Graphic Designer Brighton and Lewes
This is annoying as I want my keywords "graphic designer brighton" to go before my name.
I am using the Yoast SEO plugin and my only suspicion is that there might be a conflict between that and my theme, Workality.
Has anyone got any suggestions as to why this might be happening?
Google Search may change webpage titles they show in the result page (since 2012-01):
We use many signals to decide which title to show to users, primarily the <title> tag if the webmaster specified one. But for some pages, a single title might not be the best one to show for all queries, and so we have algorithms that generate alternative titles to make it easier for our users to recognize relevant pages.
See also the documentation at http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35624:
Google's generation of page titles and descriptions (or "snippets") is completely automated and takes into account both the content of a page as well as references to it that appear on the web. The goal of the snippet and title is to best represent and describe each result and explain how it relates to the user's query.
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While we can't manually change titles or snippets for individual sites, we're always working to make them as relevant as possible.
In my answer on Webmasters SE I linked to questions from people having the same issue.
Is is possible that you changed the title, or installed the plugin, and Google hasn't picked up the changes yet?
It can take a few weeks for Google to pick up changes to your site, depending on how often it spiders it. The HTML looks fine so I can only think that Google hasn't got round to picking up the changes yet.
I have searched around for what I thought was going to be an easy item on my agenda. I am looking to add a Facebook activity to
Steps I have tried:
Go to https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/activity/
Put in the facebook URL that I want to display on my website (www.facebook.com/companysfacebookurltag) when that did not work I tried their homepage www.company.com and www.company.com/default.aspx (with and without the http)
I created an App and copied that ID in from https://developers.facebook.com/apps/ (I assume that is how I get an app ID???) and taken this out of Sandbox mode.
The code in the https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/activity/ shows the words "recent activity" and have 6,082,608 people recommending whereas I think ours is actually 28 and nothing displays.
Surly it should not be complex, the twitter feed took minutes....
I have read Facebook Activity Feed not working for example but now am quite frankly stumped!
I swear this was easy when I did it years ago for another company (I mean like four plus years ago) has it changed alot?
Thank you in advance, apologies for lack of code but Facebook generates it at the end so really it is a 'how to' rather than coding issue (?)
Turns out if you go to the like box page you can do it this way, much easier...
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-box-for-pages/
then tick 'show posts' and that is it.
Does google follow buttons and form inputs when crawling websites? I'm adding rel="nofollow" tags to links I don't want google to follow but I'm not sure if I need to add them to buttons.
For example an 'add to cart' button.
Thanks
Generally, no. Especially not POST-based forms; POST may have side-effects per the RFC, while GET is defined as a "safe" method. Google is experimenting with some "deep web" spidering, however, so it's possible that they may request GET-based forms -- but this isn't yet commonplace, as far as I know.
But according to the standards, spiders should not POST.
In fact, the original announcement from google states that they only follow GET-based forms.
Your "add to cart" button should either POST a form, or execute JavaScript. Google won't do either of those two things.
hi bots don't submit post requests of any kind.
google does follow rel=nofollow links, it just doesn't assume that you are 'vouching' for the content to which they link
My neighbour popped over last night to ask me for help with regards to his company's website. He said that it used to be ranked pretty high on Google but has since fallen off completely.
Now, I'm a Windows App programmer hence my request for help. I took a look and there the meta tags seem ok. I recommended that he add a <h1>heading</h1> to the pages with a page title to help reinforce the content.
I also suggested that finding related websites and getting them to link to his site was good for search ranking.
Are there any other general strategies / tools that could help?
He site is: http://www.colofinder.co.uk/
ps. BTW: this isn't just an attempt to have StackOverflow link to my neighbour's site - I'm aware that links from SO don't add to its ranking.
Go to http://ooyes.net/blog/a-step-by-step-15-minute-seo-audit-%28a-sample-from-seo-secrets%29 and read it. Then go to http://www.searchenginejournal.com/55-quick-seo-tips-even-your-mother-would-love/6760/ and read it. Then go to your friends site and look at it with that information in mind. Off the top of my head, I would add flip the company name and page title in the "title" tags. Look at the google analytics account and see how people are coming to the site. That will give you an idea of where you should start your efforts to build a workable base.
First of all he needs to be make sure that his website contents are well managed and to the point. Then Page title has to be pin point, meta tags are obsolete so try meta description. Then Main Heading should be under h1 tag, sub heading under h2 and further sub heading h3. Try to update your website one in a month.
Use community websites like Facebook, Twitter and linkidin and other related forums for posting updates about completed projects and must give inbound links. You can use your company name as an inlink to your primary website and project name as an inlink of subpage of your company website.
Keep on posting at least once in a week. Post website URL to online directories will be a great help. Do not use Blackhat SEO techniques like cloaking. Do not use any invisible text/div in your website. Make sure that whenever you give your website link any where, give the most to the point and appropriate link.
Your link should have to have that stuff against you are posting your link/sublink. Make a section on your website for tag clouds/google tags, this will be a great attraction for search engines and they will link your website to other popular websites.
Make sure these tags should be directed to top ranking website which should have relevant material. I hope this will help. Feel free if you have trouble to understand anything i have mentioned above. Best of Luck
I'm maintaining an existing website that wants a site search. I implemented the search using the YAHOO API. The problem is that the API is returning irrelevant results. For example, there is a sidebar with a list of places and if a user searches for "New York" the top results will be for pages that do not have "New York" in the main content section. I have tried adding Yahoo's class="robots-nocontent" to the sidebar however that was two weeks ago and there has been no update.
I also tried out Google's Search API but am having the same problem.
This site has mostly static content and about 50 pages total so it is very small.
How can I implement a simple search that only searches the main content portions of the page?
At the risk of sounding completely self-promoting as well as pushing yet another API on you, I wrote a blog post about implementing Bing for your site using jQuery.
The advantage in using the jQuery approach is that you can tune the results quite specifically based on filters passed to the API and playing around with the JSON (or XML / SOAP if you prefer) result Bing returns, as well as having the ability to be more selective about what data you actually have jQuery display.
The other thing you should probably be aware of is how to effectively use #rel attributes on your content (esp. links) so that search engines are aware of what the relationship is between the actual content they're crawling and the destination content it links to.
First, post a link to your website... we can probably help you more if we can see the problem.
It sound like you're doing it wrong. Google Search should work on your website, unless your content is hidden behind javascript or forms or something, or your site isn't properly interlinked. Google solved crawling static pages, so if that's what you have, it will work.
So, tell me... does your site say New York anywhere? If it does, have a look at the page and see how the word is used... maybe your site isn't as static as you think. Also, are people really going to search your site for New York? Why don't you input some search terms that are likely on your site.
Another thing to consider is if your site is really just 50 pages, is it really realistic that people will want to search it? Maybe you don't need search... maybe you just need like a commonly used link section.
The BOSS Site Search Widget is pretty slick.
I use the bookmarklet thing but set as my "home" page in my browser. So whatever site I'm on I can hit my "home" button (which I never used anyway) and it pops up that handy site search thing.