Hi Michael
My theme is Sandbox Version 1
I have updated to the newest WordPress 3.4.1
There are the plugins I have installed:
Akismet 2.5.6
Executable PHP widget 2.1
FeedBurner FeedSmith Extend 1.0.0
Google XML Sitemaps 3.2.7
IP Filter 1.0.3
NextGEN Gallery 1.9.3
Really simple Facebook Twitter share buttons 2.5.1
Redirection 2.2.13
Related Posts Thumbnails 1.3.1
Shareholic email, bookmark, share buttons 6.0.0.3
SI Captcha Anti-Spam 2.7.5
WordPress Print This Section 2.7.5
WP-Paginate 1.2.4
WP htaccess Control 3.3
WP Minify 1.2.0
WP Robots.Txt 1.0
WP SuperCache 1.1
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin 3.5.1
The gentleman that does my web work believes its conflicting with WP Super Cache, to get it to populate the keywords in the tool he had to turn off the compression. But my concern is I'm wondering if it was the cause of all my posts dropping in the serps. I noticed Google had to generate snippets because none of meta descriptions were appearing. I've dropped huge in search engine traffic and my posts have fallen from the 1st page to in some cases the 50th page.
My developer said that he had to remove the compression for it to work but I still don't think the code is proper because it's not loading with the name of your plugin and the meta syntax (I think that is what it is called) looks chopped up, see below:
name="generator" content="WordPress 3.4.1" /><link
rel='shortlink' href='http://gracessweetlife.com/?p=8468' /><meta
name="description" content="Find recipe for Black Licorice Crème Brûlée and Sambuca-Caramelized Figs and other Plated Desserts and Dessert Ideas for dinner parties at Grace's Sweet Life." /><meta
name="keywords" content="easy baking recipes, licorice recipe, dessert recipes with pictures, recipes for creme brulee, italian dessert, fruit desserts, recipe creme brulee, custard recipes, simple dessert recipe, easy recipes for baking" /><link
rel="canonical" href="http://gracessweetlife.com/2012/07/liquorice-creme-brulee-and-caramelized-figs-with-sambuca/" /> <script type="text/javascript">window.___gcfg = {lang: "en"};
(function() {
var po = document.createElement("script"); po.type = "text/javascript"; po.async = true;
po.src = "https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js";
var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s);
})();</script> <meta
property='og:image' content='http://gracessweetlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Black-Licorice-Crème-Brûlée-300x300.jpg' /><link
id='MediaRSS' rel='alternate' type='application/rss+xml' title='NextGEN Gallery RSS Feed' href='http://gracessweetlife.com/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/xml/media-rss.php' /><style type="text/css" media="print">#wpadminbar { display:none; }</style><style type="text/css" media="screen">html { margin-top: 28px !important; }
* html body { margin-top: 28px !important; }</style></head><body><div
I would really appreciate any guidance you can provide because I took another nosedive in impressions. I know I haven't been manually penalized by Google because I reached out to them and I don't participate in any link schemes or do anything like that so I know it has to do with code. Everything started slipping after a large amount of plugins were updated late April first week of May.
Look forward to your reply Michael - thank you!
Grace
