SEO

edit site description w/o plugin

I could have sworn GP used the default WP site tag to generate the site description but that’s not what I’m seeing. Is there a way to do that without using a SEO plugin (I really dislike Yoast and want to avoid it at all costs)? Many thanks!

Page Headers blocking Google Fetch and Render

GP Page Headers appear to be blocking Google’s Fetch & Render in GSC. My homepage has a fullscreen page header and the only portions of the page Google would fetch and render was the navigation and page header (with background image and content). But none of the almost 1300 words in the page content was … Read more

Need to remove header h1 tag from the html

Hello, I have a home page that has a header using a page builder. This header has an <h1> tag in it. H1 tags are important for search engines to help them understand the main focus of the page. However, when I disabled the default theme header, it only hid the theme header in css. … Read more

Very slow … what can I do?

Hello and first of all … thanks for this nice theme you created 🙂 I have a questing regarding the loading speed and what I need to customize, because google gives me the pagespeed rating “poor” and as far as I know, the worst part must be the images, that get ‘delivered’ in a wrong … Read more

SEO Impact of removing header and / or footer

Hi Tom, I have searched here and elsewhere on this but did not come up with a definitive answer. Your suggestion to me to use a hook to remove the <header> instead of using CSS to hide it (display: none) is what prompted me to ask. There has been a lot of talk about what … Read more

Disabling Header / Titles SEO Impact

Hello, I pretty much have the same question as this post, but would like a bit more information: https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/disable-elements-seo-impact/ If I have a page and I disable the header, featured image / page header, and the content title, but I still add an h1 element to the page, what else should I do to make … Read more

Footer SEO question

Heya Tom! I have a question that I am interested in your opinion on if I may? Are there any SEO pros or cons to using footer widgets vs creating your own custom footer with a page builder and hooking it in? I have always wondered if by creating my own footer using a page … Read more

HTML tag of main title

Hi Tom, on my website I want to use the H1 tag for the main title when the front page is shown, and the P tag when another page is shown. For SEO reasons. I created a child theme to accomplish the same, but then came across the following code, from which I see your … Read more