hello please who can help me out with my word press blog i am getting this strange alert from bing There are multiple <h1> tags on the page. There are multiple descriptions on the page.
Recommended Action:
Remove redundant tags from the page source, so that only one <meta description> tag exists.
SEO Explanation:
As a best practice, there should only be a single meta description per page, contained in the <head> section of the page source.
What does the <head> section of a page look like in view-source?
If it has multiple descriptions, where are they coming from?
i do not know all i get it red alert from my bing webmaster all my site they are just complaining i have tried to go to my page source but i do not know how to do it so i need your help if you can do it There are multiple <h1> tags on the page. There are multiple descriptions on the page Recommended Action:
Remove redundant tags from the page source, so that only one <meta description> tag exists.
SEO Explanation:
As a best practice, there should only be a single meta description per page, contained in the <head> section of the page source.
If you go to a page using your browser and right-click view-source, you should be able to see the generated output that is rendered.
Post the <h1> and <meta description> tags that you see and it might be possible to figure out where they’re coming from.
they are coming from the related article plugin in i am using google is not complaining only bing please do you know how i can deal with this issue
If you temporarily disable that plugin the mark-up is clean of those extra tags?
the plugin help with interlinking of my site you know the benefits of interlinking such as more from my site where there are several articles related to the niche that individuals can read if i disable the plugin what will happen i noticed that the plugin is making bing to say that i have multiple meta description
If you temporarily disable that plugin that’s when you get the Bing notices?
So with it enabled you don’t? If so the answer is clear, leave it enabled.
no the plugin in is not disabled it is enabled the problem is that bing is confused they are telling me i am having multiple meta description and h1 tags i think google understands but bing is given me several red flags and they said i should edit it from my page source i am not an expect i just need help
i think the all in one seo i am using is not working for bing webmaster tool i notice that bing because my question is why do they index my sites and still give me reg flag when i am using all in one seo why are they still interested in the page source
Because the page source is 99% of what they are interested in - at least. Your visitors don’t care that you are using all in one seo so only those aspects of it that make the page more attractive to those visitors is of interest to the search engines.
All meta tags are supposed to be in the head of the page so if you have a plugin that is inserting meta tags somewhere else then that plugin is broken.
With so many web pages containing similar info the search engines will use anything meaningful to distinguish between them - invalid meta tags is one possible way of determining that another page with similar content should be listed above yours.
ok thanks here is an example of what i am complaining of
`<header class="entry-header"><h1 class="entry-title"><a href="http://www.crappiefishingrigs.com/crappie-jigs/" title="Permalink to Crappie Jigs How to Jig for Crappie" rel="bookmark">Crappie Jigs How to Jig for Crappie</a></h1></header>`
the second h1 tag in this page is
`<h1 id="site-title"><a href="http://www.crappiefishingrigs.com/" title="crappie fishing poles - my goal is to help people who want to study about fishing" rel="home">crappie fishing poles</a></h1>`
one of them is from the all in one seo while the second is from the h1 tag i included in my website
From I can see the conflicts are
<meta name="description" content="More from my siteJune 24, 2014 crappie Fishing Rigs Time to Catch More Fish! (1)September 19, 2014 Crappie Live Bait Fishing (1)September 19, 2014 Crappie Rig Set Up (1)June 25, 2014 Crappie Lures What You Need to Know (1)September 20, 2014 Crappie Live Bait Rigs (3)September 19, 2014 Fishing Rigs For Crappie (0) Related" />
<meta name='description' content='' />
<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin v1.6.1 - https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/ -->
<meta name="description" content="Crappie Jigs is a general term that encompasses a wide variety of artificial lures used for recreational fishing learn more about jigs here."/>
<h1 id="site-title"><a href="http://www.crappiefishingrigs.com/" title="crappie fishing poles - my goal is to help people who want to study about fishing" rel="home">crappie fishing poles</a></h1>
<h1 class="entry-title"><a href="http://www.crappiefishingrigs.com/crappie-jigs/" title="Permalink to Crappie Jigs How to Jig for Crappie" rel="bookmark">Crappie Jigs How to Jig for Crappie</a></h1>
So it looks like you have at least 2 plugins that are involved in the conflict, and possibly your theme as well. i.e.
Yoast SEO plugin
Zemanta plugin
Blogolife theme
i only have one plugin for seo which deals with my new post all my new blog post are flag down by bing that they are multiple h1 tags the zemanta plugin is for related article and it is also involve in the conflict for meta description
One h1 is from the themes header.php file.
<h1 id="site-title"><a href="<?php echo esc_url( home_url( '/' ) ); ?>" title="<?php echo esc_attr( get_bloginfo( 'name', 'display' ) ); ?> - <?php bloginfo('description'); ?>" rel="home"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>
If you don’t want that one you could comment it out of the template file.
please now you know my problem how do i remove that i am not an expert in this i can write good articles do not make me an expert please how do i solve this problem
Using a plain text editor, open your theme’s header.php file and change
<hgroup class="fleft">
<h1 id="site-title"><a href="<?php echo esc_url( home_url( '/' ) ); ?>" title="<?php echo esc_attr( get_bloginfo( 'name', 'display' ) ); ?> - <?php bloginfo('description'); ?>" rel="home"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>
<h2 id="site-description"><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></h2>
</hgroup>
to
<hgroup class="fleft">
<!--
<h1 id="site-title"><a href="<?php echo esc_url( home_url( '/' ) ); ?>" title="<?php echo esc_attr( get_bloginfo( 'name', 'display' ) ); ?> - <?php bloginfo('description'); ?>" rel="home"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>
-->
<h2 id="site-description"><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></h2>
</hgroup>
thank you for your assistance are you talking about this section
<title><?php global $page, $paged; wp_title( '', true, 'right' ); // Add the blog description for the home/front page. $sitename = get_bloginfo( 'name', 'display' ); if ( $sitename && ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) ) echo " $site_name"; // Add a page number if necessary: if ( $paged >= 2 || $page >= 2 )
the blog life theme is the cause of several h1 tags on the page i am now scared of publishing a new blog post if i can change the code i will be happy so it stops showing hi tags
Right file, but not far enough down.
<title><?php global $page, $paged;
wp_title( '', true, 'right' );
// Add the blog description for the home/front page.
$site_name = get_bloginfo( 'name', 'display' );
if ( $site_name && ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) )
echo " $site_name";
// Add a page number if necessary:
if ( $paged >= 2 || $page >= 2 )
echo ' | ' . sprintf( __( 'Page %s', 'wplook' ), max( $paged, $page ) );
?></title>
<?php wplook_meta_description();?>
<meta name="keywords" content="<?php echo $wpl_meta_keywords; ?>" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="<?php echo $wpl_favicon_url; ?>" />
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="<?php echo get_template_directory_uri() ?>/images/apple-touch-icon.png" />
<?php if ( is_singular() ) wp_enqueue_script( "comment-reply" ); ?>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="<?php bloginfo( 'stylesheet_url' ); ?>" />
<?php echo stripslashes($wpl_ga_code); ?>
<?php wp_head(); ?>
</head>
<body <?php body_class('two-column right-sidebar'); ?>>
<div id="page"<?php if (is_single() || is_page() ) { $sidebar = get_post_meta($post->ID,'wpl_enable_sidebar',true); if($sidebar=="false") echo ' class="template-full-widch"'; } ?>>
<header id="branding">
<hgroup class="fleft">
<h1 id="site-title"><a href="<?php echo esc_url( home_url( '/' ) ); ?>" title="<?php echo esc_attr( get_bloginfo( 'name', 'display' ) ); ?> - <?php bloginfo('description'); ?>" rel="home"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>
<h2 id="site-description"><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></h2>
</hgroup>
Try changing the hgroup portion to look like in post #17