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Todd Jones

April MainWP Roundup: Domain Migrations, Acquisitions & More

In this month’s MainWP Roundup, we visit the perils of a domain migration, WordPress critiques, upcoming WordPress events, and ongoing acquisitions. Buckle up, let’s ride! Woo’s Domain Migration Reversal Woo had a tough time in April. They had to reverse their domain migration from Woo.com back to WooCommerce.com. According to their blog post, “Moving to Woo.com created challenges for our users to find WooCommerce in Google searches, which were made worse following Google’s March update. To address those challenges, we assembled a group of SEO experts and consultants to evaluate the best way to build on the strength of the

Todd Jones April 17, 2024 No Comments
Remove Unused All in One SEO Plugin Data
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Remove the All in One SEO Plugin Data on Your WordPress Website

The All in One SEO is a commonly used SEO plugin with 3+ million active installs. If you want to migrate to a different SEO plugin, you should migrate the existing SEO and delete the previous plugin’s stored data. If you are migrating to the Rank Math SEO plugin, it supports the All in One SEO plugin data migration. The All in One SEO plugin uses the following database tables for data storage; wp_aioseo_cache wp_aioseo_notifications wp_aioseo_posts All in One SEO plugin allows you to remove ALL AIOSEO data upon plugin deletion. Make sure the “Uninstall AIOSEO” is enabled before deleting

Sebastian Moran January 25, 2023 No Comments
Remove Unused Yoast Plugin Data
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Remove Yoast SEO Plugin Data on Your Site

If you want to migrate from the Yoast SEO plugin to alternative plugins, it is also worth making sure that any Yoast SEO plugin data is deleted from the site’s database. The custom database tables that the Yoast SEO plugin creates; wp_yoast_indexable wp_yoast_indexable_hierarchy wp_yoast_migrations wp_yoast_primary_term wp_yoast_prominent_words(note: only available in the Yoast SEO Premium plugin) wp_yoast_seo_links The option names that the Yoast SEO plugin uses; _transient_wpseo_unindexed_post_link_count _transient_timeout_wpseo_unindexed_post_link_count _transient_wpseo_unindexed_term_link_count _transient_timeout_wpseo_unindexed_term_link_count _transient_wpseo_total_unindexed_general_items _transient_timeout_wpseo_total_unindexed_general_items _transient_wpseo_total_unindexed_post_type_archives _transient_timeout_wpseo_total_unindexed_post_type_archives _transient_yoast_i18n_wordpress-seo_promo_hide wpseo_social wpseo_titles wpseo yoast_migrations_free Wpseo_taxonomy_meta If you migrated to an alternative SEO plugin, such as Rank Math SEO, it could clean Yoast SEO data after migrating. But

Sebastian Moran January 11, 2023 No Comments
SEOPress for MainWP
Important Updates
Dennis Dornon

🥳 Introducing “SEOPress for MainWP” Extension

Being in the website management business for years, we understand how difficult and time-consuming it is to individually log in to each client’s website and change SEO configurations. Months ago, we received feedback to add SEOPress to our offerings. We spoke to Benjamin Denis of SEOPress; he was incredibly welcoming and excited to build an extension to help our mutual users. 📢 Today, I’m excited to announce the “SEOPress for MainWP” Extension from which you can control the SEOPress settings of all Child Sites directly from the MainWP Dashboard. I’m sure this partnership will enable you to save time and

Dennis Dornon September 20, 2022 7 Comments
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Migrate to Different SEO Plugins on your Site

If you have been using SEO plugin on your site for a while then it is worth checking the alternative SEO plugin options that are now available. Most of the commonly used SEO plugins include migration options such as SEOPress, Rank Math SEO, and SEO Framework (TSF). In this post, we will cover two of the most heavily used plugins for SEO on WordPress sites. After you have installed and activated the SEOPress plugin on your site you will be able to easily migrate data from your previous SEO plugin such as Yoast SEO. To migrate the SEO data go

Sebastian Moran August 20, 2021 No Comments
Featured Image: Backlinks
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

How to build backlinks without making your recipient scream in their pillow

Do you ever get an email like this? They are designed to get you to add a link to your website via an article you have already written. The strategy is not new. It has been used for years by certain SEO gurus. The thing is, most of my friends say they simply delete the emails or send them to spam. Nevertheless, this strategy is all about quantity. It’s a numbers game. That’s what they used to say in sales. In fact, I used to have to sign customers up for an email in a retail store. That was a

Todd Jones August 13, 2020 No Comments
Handy Code Snippets for the Yoast SEO Plugin
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

Handy Code Snippets for the Yoast SEO Plugin on your Child Sites

Yoast SEO is a well-known, easy-to-use plugin for SEO. Yoast SEO has a number of code snippets that can be saved to limit or disable specific functions. MainWP has an amazing extension for code snippets, which easily allows you to apply code snippets to your child sites. We have taken the time to save out a number of handy code snippets for Yoast SEO into the code snippets GitHub repo. A common bug in Yoast SEO is when you update the plugin, it can redirect to the about page and tour page. You can use this code snippet so this

Sebastian Moran July 11, 2019 No Comments
SEO Tools
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

Crawl your website like a spider: Use these SEO tools

So, you are conducting an SEO audit. Maybe you were inspired by the article we posted on SEO audits a couple of days ago. You did your research. You found some checklists and made a list of things you want to check to get started. Your goal is to get a basic SEO health checkup for your client’s website. So, you started accumulated a list of tools you need to get started. Does that list include a website crawler? Well, today we are going to take a look at a few website crawlers to get on your way. Screaming Frog

Todd Jones April 12, 2019 1 Comment
SEO Audit
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

Three different types of SEO audits and how they can help your business

Do you offer SEO audits for your clients? This has become something more interesting as I have delved into the process. At one time, I had this very basic checklist of things I would check for SEO. I offered it for free to get people on my email list. I think I did one or two for someone. They liked the work, but never needed a website. It seems there is a tiered nature to SEO audits. First, there are the automated audits ran by various SEO applications available for free or a monthly cost. One such service I used

Todd Jones April 10, 2019 No Comments
SEO Audit Tools
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

Five SEO audit tools recommended by experts that will help you create valuable reports for your clients

Do you ever offer audits for prospects? In a recent article, we talked about three ways to use a website audit for your clients. There are different types of audits you can run for your clients or prospects and one of those types is an SEO audit. Today, we are going to talk about tools for those audits. As with any tool, these tools are a great starting point. To do a thorough SEO audit, there is a need for a structured process and a multitude of tools. In fact, an article by Robbie Richards lists 47 such tools. Another

Todd Jones January 31, 2019 2 Comments

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