Sitemap Double directory

Hi gethooked23,

There’s a known issue with many plugins that output a sitemap that using any form of script-minify will destroy its content (and invalidates it). This will cause a pending status.

I’ll see if I can negate minifying actions in the next update within the sitemap, which should solve the issue.

About the double directory, I must ask you if this issue is only going on with the About us page, and if so, does it have the store as a parent?

If this happens to many more pages, please let me know.

Often, when an URL is output wrongfully at some place, it’s because the permalink settings have been fiddled with wrongfully by a plugin, which can be solved by simply saving the Permalink Settings once more; this will reset the WordPress rewrite cache.

I hope this helps! Thanks and have a great day! 🙂

Hi gethooked23,

Thank you very much for re-activating the plugin and disabling the cache.

The problem lies within your Site Settings. Your store page is effectively the home page, and The SEO Framework takes that page, stores it in cache and uses it to create all the URLs (that’s why it’s so fast ;)).

This creates the problem you’re facing, but is easily solvable :).

Follow these steps:
1. Go to your home page.
2. Select Customize in the WP Admin bar.
3. Go to “Static Front Page”.
4. Make sure a Posts Page is selected, and is not the same as the Front Page.
5. Weird URL generation is now partially fixed.

The next steps:
1. Go to the WordPress Dashboard.
2. Go to Settings > General
3. Set your Site Address to your site address, without Store.
4. Weird URL generation is now fixed.

I hope this helps! Feel free to enable caching if it’s fixed and keep me posted!

Thanks and have a wonderful day 🙂

Hi gethooked23,

The WordPress Address (URL) is the location of your WordPress installation. This must indeed contain /store/, changing this will force to you fix it through this guide.

The Site Address (URL) is the location you wish your website to be accessed on, this URL can be safely changed, to not contain /store/.

I see you’ve already installed WordPress correctly to support this change :).

I also see there’s a bug with the double directory output, but it stands aside from the root cause and will be looked at to be fixed for the next update.

Be sure to clear the Sitemap transient by either:
a) Updating or publishing any post or page.
b) Saving the SEO Settings.

I hope this helps! Let me know if it works out for you :).

Hi gethooked23,

It’s great to see you’ve got it all worked out :).

Index status
About the sub-directory installation hurting SEO, it doesn’t (directly), actually. This is because the Canonical URL pointed the root domain away from it to /store/, in the long run this could have some negative side-effects, which requires some extra-dimensional thinking.

Please keep in mind that it can take up to 3 weeks for your pages to show up in Google/Bing/Yandex/etc. correctly.

About the images
Google knows how to find them without a sitemap :).
I just tested this out on a brand new WooCommerce website I set up, and all WooCommerce product images simply show up just Googling for the website’s name. The “View Image” button is linked to my CDN, and the “Visit Page” is linked to the product page, on each and every image I’ve found.

The sitemap is a tool to get your pages indexed as soon as possible, images should lead from those pages and will yield the best (assumed, based on your website:) expected results.
Finding out which image goes where (manually!) is a very tough job to do, at which Google is much better at, since it indexes the URL’s at the pages the images run into.

For this very reason I’ve set the Attachment pages to be discouraged from indexing, by default, within the global Robots Meta Settings. As attachment pages have no value.

When Google has indexed a page, it will also index the allowed images on the said page, so when a user hits an image within the search results, you can be sure the visitor lands on the product page.

There are many topics in the support forums on this subject if you wish to gain more information :).

Compatibility
Although, based on your website, I recommend against it… if you still wish to install a sitemap plugin with images, feel free to do so. The SEO Framework is compatible with many popular sitemap plugins, at this point I’m unsure which will be right for images.

I hope this clears things up, have a wonderful day!

P.S. I found the bug (double directory) and it’s fixed in the next update (ETA 2 to 5 weeks).

Hi mamakin,

I’m just writing a response on your other topic :).

As stated (somewhere in this big topic) it can take up to 3 weeks for your pages to show up in Google/Bing/Yandex/etc. correctly.

I’m going to help you speed up that process on the other topic.

Also, this does not fix the 404 issue you’re facing now from back-links. I’ll get back to you on this subject on your other topic in a moment.

Thanks and have a wonderful day!