JohnnyScience

Great, thanks for the help.

I’ve actually disabled most of my footer area so these don’t even pop up any more for me to try and verify this with lol

I am looking to add some social media icons to the header or a footer widget, any suggestions?

Ok, thanks for that info.

So you said: It seems that directory listings are enabled (mod_autoindex in Apache).

What does this mean exactly & do I want to keep them enabled, or should I disable them?

If I should disabled them, where do I do this at?

Thank you!

I contacted Hostgator about the speed of my website and they said they have taken a look at the server and I do not see any issues on the server end.

But they did say this was coming up as a problem:

I can see from this gtmetrix test that your site makes over 278 requests mostly from images. You would need to work on optimize the content so that it required less request and data to perform a single site request. 

https://gtmetrix.com/reports/ohiocannabis.com/IsDt1bxv

So could this be the reason my home page is also loading so slow?

Any ideas on how to clear up/reduce all of those image requests?

I also contacted Sitelock & the had this to say:

During our clean of your website, we reviewed the search engine results to see if there was spam content present, checked your site against various blacklists to make sure your site wasn't being blacklisted, checked your sites database, and performed a thorough review of your sites files. We can confirm that there is no spam content in the search results and that your site is not on any blacklist, additionally, we found your database and files to be free of malicious content. We then also tested your site to make sure everything was functioning properly. We can also confirm that from our end the site is loading slowly. The next steps after ruling out malware would be to analyze waterfalls for the loading of the site and attempt to narrow down which part of the site is causing delayed load times. Typically the best approach is to attempt to disable plugins or change the theme and compare and contrast the response of the page. Ideally, if it can be narrowed down to a few individual plugins

Thank you.

Ok I’m going to read that article now.

The other guy on a different forum said this:

I would reduce it to just:

Code:

User-agent: *

And leave it at that. It's just enough to meet the requirement of having one,without screwing around wasting time on much else.

... and the only reason I'd have one is so that when search engines go looking for it, they don't fill up my logs with 404 errors.

So I did just that and edited the robots.txt file to ONLY have the User-agent: *

Do you guys also agree with this as the proper setup for my website?

Thank you for the detailed response and not a problem, I know I overloaded the info & questions in that last post lol

So I don’t know if I had a Sitemap at all prior to creating a Robots.txt file through the Yoast plugin.

When it automatically created and set itself up, it actually added two lines to the Robots.txt file in regards to sitemaps:

Sitemap: https://www.ohiocannabis.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.ohiocannabis.com/news-sitemap.xml

But yet I was still having an issue with the submitted URLs with these added to the Robots.txt

The only thing that seemed to clear all up the 163 Submitted URLs was playing around with the “Really Simple SSL” plugin settings. I think.

So the first sitemap looks correct right?

Apparently GSC is seeing it and shows “Success” under Status

But what about the news-sitemap.xml?

Yoast added that to the Robots.txt automatically.

How is it different from the regular /sitemap.xml?

Do I need it? Can I delete it out of the Robots.txt? It doesn’t show up under Submitted Sitemaps in GSC.

Or should I Submit it as a new Sitemap to GSC?

So from your suggestion, I should just completely delete both sitemaps out of the Robots.txt file?

So since I deleted the other 3 URL Variations, should I now add them back and leave them be?

Thank you for all your time & help!

• This reply was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by JohnnyScience.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by Steven Stern (sterndata).
• This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by Jan Dembowski.

Ahh I think I am understanding now.

So it IS ok to add static text to individual pages, posts or products SEO Title

But it’s not ok to add static text to the global Variable settings

Ok great, thank you for that bit of code!

But what file (and it’s location) would I add this to?

Thank you.

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