Hi MaAnna 🙂
Something on your main site is stripping the prefix off the majority of your URLs in your code. It’s not simply the canonical that is losing its prefix.
Screenshot: http://screencast.com/t/CxTzku0vJgm
Either you’ve missed a plugin or there’s some fancy footwork in the .htaccess that has not gotten copied to your test site.
In what may be an unrelated note, the TEST site has a link to include a sitemap but has TWO http prefixes instead of one.
Additionally, your main site does not have a SINGLE line of comment code in the code. Which is probably being done by some additional feature, tool, minify, etc. That’s not our doing, but ALL the comment code is missing, not just ours.
In your main site – several of the social entries are included in duplicate – meaning you have more than one plugin adding them. For example: “twitter:description”. (I can’t tell which plugin, as generally that would be in the comment code, and you have none LOL!) That’s more than enough to totally muck a lot of things up.
Screenshot: http://screencast.com/t/m7vpsjP9L0QK
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~ Kim ~
Support at Yoast
Thanks so much Kim for taking a look. I had a major theme revamp and traded out a lot of plugins at the time too. Added one that may be duplicating the social tags. I can’t believe I missed that 2nd set!!! Thanks for catching it.
For the stripped out comments, that’s probably the minification from CloudFlare. I don’t have the test site running through it.
I’ll get those duplicates out and see if the SEO meta description gets picked up again.
Thanks again for your help and delighted it’s not likely a Yoast issue after all!!!
You’re quite welcome – and keep us posted 🙂
~ Kim ~
Support at Yoast
Kim, I’ve found the problems, and it will likely lead to another conflict warning in the Yoast plugin. I’m working with the other plugin devs and would be happy to work with y’all via back channels to resolve this properly before that conflict warning gets put in, and before I go public with setting changes and such.
Kim, stripping out the comments is definitely CloudFlare minification and is fine.
The social tag conflict is most definitely the Social Warfare plugin, and is what is causing the SEO issues. I’ve notified the devs, but they are working on other issues with their plugin and it may be a while before this gets fixed.
The OG and Twitter settings have to be turned off in Yoast or they will double, hence the conflict warning y’all might want to put in.
The SW code is above the Yoast code, which puts the tags out of order for what Google picks up. OG and Twitter are now above the meta name description.
If there is a social media description in the SW plugin, then that’s what will get picked up. If it’s left blank, then the first text on the page/post is picked up. Never sees the Yoast meta description. So, triples the workload.
Since SEO trumps shares, I’ve replaced the SW plugin on my main site for now, but still have it on the training site and happy to share my test results with you.
Hi MaAnna,
We appreciate you letting us know what is going on with that plugin.
Is Social Warfare a GPL plugin?
~ Kim ~
Support at Yoast
No, it’s a premium plugin. They are working overtime to get this issue resolved.
