Post excerpts not showing up in google page index/crawl/word count

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#1

Hi,

I’ve got around 1,000 words on my landing page http://dangerpress.com and they do not seem to be showing up when google crawls my site. It’s only seeing 200-300.

I’m using Visual Composer Post Grid element to post the excerpts.

If I put in my site in these word counters/checkers they see less than 250 words.

For example the word “Screen” is on the landing page 13 times and isn’t listed by any of the sites.
“Shirt” appears 21 times but is only listed a 4 times.

Is there a way I can get all the words in the excerpts to be seen by google and other word counting sites?

Is this because X is rendering the excerpts as Javascript?

Thanks,

J

#2

Hello There,

Thank you for the very detailed post information. I have inspected the page and it turns out that this is not with X theme. You have this issue because you are using Visual Composer’s Post Grid element. The Post Grid does not display the items on the page. It is being loaded with AJAX and this is where your issue is coming from. I would suggest that you replace Post Grid with other grid plugin like Essential Grid or The Grid plugin that displays the actual excerpts on the page.

Please let us know how it goes.

#3

Thanks RueNel.

Essential Grid looks like it could work as long as I can it can use the Google Fonts “Montserrat”, “Crimson Text” and the Adobe TypeKit font “Termina” which I’m using in the posts layout.

I’ve installed Montserrat and Crimson Text into Punch Fonts


However, they’re not showing up in the Essential Grid font list

I have installed Termina in TypeKit

And tried to install it in Punch Fonts using the required nomenclature

If Punch Fonts cannot handle the TypeKit typefaces, can I adjust the text with CSS as I have with the Visual Composer Post Grid text?

J

#4

Hi there,

The Typekit add-ons that you installed are for X and it’s not directly integrated into Essential Grid. You can still use it but through custom CSS instead through Essential Grid’s font selection. Plus, your site is heavily cached, I recommend disabling all of them while you’re working on your site. Cache and optimization are only recommended for the production stage of a site. Hence, I can’t really verify the font issue in your Essential Grid.

I think, regardless of the grid you’re using, what you need is rich snippets and schema in order for search engine understands your page’s content.

And yes, you can use CSS, example, let’s say your grid title’s class name is .eg-washington-element-3 (you can always find this in your grid skin builder)

.eg-washington-element-3 {
    font-size: 27px;
    color: #242424;
    line-height: 27px;
    text-align: left;
    font-family: Montserrat;
    font-weight: 400;
    font-style: normal;
}

Then you can add that to your grid’s custom CSS, or global custom CSS. But I recommend disabling your caches, any change you make will not reflect in real time, giving you the impression that it’s not working.

Thanks!

#5

Thanks Rad.

I’ve flushed and turned off the caches if that helps find the issue.

I’ll go over Rich Snippet options but I’ve always had good success with my post excerpts.

Next I’ll look at the Essential Grid builder.

J

#6

Hi,

Please let us know how it goes.

Thanks

#7

I’ve installed the plugin All In One Schema.org Rich Snippets
https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-schemaorg-rich-snippets/
and am going through each page and post adding snippet info about the content.

I’m still not able to see Google Fonts in the Essential Grid editor.
All caches are currently disabled.

These are what I have installed in Punch Fonts

#8

Hi There,

I can see it is not available on the skin editor. This might be because of caching. You have default siteground caching, cloudflare, Browser Caching with .htaccess. It is like caching an already cache content. Try clearing cache again, then disable caching while on development.

#9

Thanks Lely.

I’ve cleared or turned turned off everything I know of that could be caching and the fonts are still not showing in the Essential Grid editor.

I turned off SiteGround Static Cache

I turned off SiteGround Dynamic Cache

I turned off Cloudflare

I deleted everything in the .htaccess file

I disabled Memcache and Google PageSpeed

I cleared the cache in Chrome

The additional fonts I’ve added to Punch Fonts are not showing

Since Essential Grid can’t use custom fonts, I’ll need to find another solution.

J

#10

Hi J,

For an alternative, we can directly use the element class and then define it to use the font using custom CSS:

.eg-danger-post-element-0{
font-family: 'Montserrat', sans-serif;
}

Hope this helps.

#11

Thanks Lely,

I’ve added the shortcode for Essential Grid to a test page [ess_grid alias=“landing_posts_1-4”] with no results.

Is there something else I need to change?

Thanks,

J

#12

Hi,

Upon checking I can see the following eror in the console.

You could try testing for a plugin conflict. You can do this by deactivating all third party plugins, and seeing if the problem remains. If it’s fixed, you’ll know a plugin caused the problem, and you can narrow down which one by reactivating them one at a time.

Thanks