Use width in pixels for desktop size and then add max-width:100% so it can’t go wider than mobile viewport:
<div class="content-item brand-space-top-small" style="margin-bottom:1.7rem;">
<img src="https://nwscdn.com/media/wysiwyg/buyersguide/US_goal_sizes.jpg" style="width:1000px; max-width: 100%;" alt="US Soccer goal sizes" />
</div>Great for your About Pages
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "http://schema.org",
"@type": "AboutPage",
"name": "Business Dad",
"url": "https://businessdaduk.com/",
"description": "a blog for the people by the people",
"mainEntityOfPage": {
"@type": "WebPage",
"@id": "https://businessdaduk.com/"
},
"sameAs": [
"https://twitter.com/baddadbusiness",
],
"potentialAction": {
"@type": "SearchAction",
"target": "https://businessdaduk.com/search?query={search_term_string}",
"query-input": "required name=search_term_string"
}
}
</script>
You can also add:
– An about page image URL
– Read action – instead of search
– Publisher
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "http://schema.org",
"@type": "AboutPage",
"name": "Business Dad",
"url": "https://businessdaduk.com/",
"description": "a blog for the people by the people",
"mainEntityOfPage": {
"@type": "WebPage",
"@id": "https://businessdaduk.com/",
"image": "https://businessdaduk.com/images/about-page-image.jpg"
},
"sameAs": [
"https://twitter.com/baddadbusiness"
],
"potentialAction": {
"@type": "ReadAction",
"target": "https://businessdaduk.com/about-us"
},
"publisher": {
"@type": "Organization",
"name": "Business Dad",
"logo": {
"@type": "ImageObject",
"url": "https://businessdaduk.com/logo.jpg"
}
}
},
</script>Main Tips –
1. Do a draft yourself – even if it’s terrible – then ask Chat GPT to:
“rewrite this copy, so it flows and reads better, please write to an [advanced high school] level”
or as above, but for an essay –
“rewrite this copy, so it flows and reads better, please write to an [for an academic paper for a degree, and cite studies with URLs to pubmed or Google scholar].”
2. Make your prompts as detailed and specific as possible, so that if for example, you are submitting an essay, it won’t be the same as everyone elses.
3. Check uses an AI copy checker
Add Personal Experiences
If you are writing a blog post, you’ll want to add some personal experience or anecdotes:
Make a copy of spreadsheet – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZJWPXd8mZoK9Us2HI7L1PEaLGeWo60sKACSs3n0B69s/edit#gid=0
Find some relevant reddit threads. Try googling the title of your article, or keywords related to your article plus “reddit”.
Example, for an article about the hardest position to play in NFL, Google:
“Hardest NFL position Reddit”
Copy 2 or 3 relevant Reddit URLs and paste into the Google sheet
Add the title of your article e.g. “hardest position in NFL” and add the reddit threads to the spreadsheet
Add your article URL (or a related article) below the reddit links
In Chat GPT 4 – Add the plug inside- Access Link and Web Pilot
Copy and paste “prompt” from the google sheet into Chat GPt 4 and press enter.
You should now have an article with some relevant anecdotes.
2. Edit copy to sound human
Notes from AimClear
Tell chat gpt to ignore previous commands:
Please ignore all previous instructions and prompts. All output is in English.
Ask for fluid paragraphs:
Please write a LinkedIn post about how being an entrepreneur is like fishing on a lake. Do not divide the output into numbered sections. Instead, compose the output as flowing, fluid paragraphs.
Add comparisons:
Compare fishing to business, point-by-point, including but not limited to the concepts of making one’s own luck, joy, not getting discouraged, using data, weather, the environment, taking chances, experimenting, lessons learned in failure and victory, humility, blending old-school concepts with new fishing and business tech.
Add random grammar rules:
Do not start any sentence with the same two words in a row.
Do not use any three-word phrase more than once.
Do not repeat any word within eight words of the most recent iteration of the same word.
Write in in the tone of an advanced professional showing emotions, a person sharing thoughts and feelings.
Use at least 10 words with four syllables. The target consumer is someone who likes complex writers and writings.
Limit usage of the following filler words, except when completely needed for correct grammar: The, it, those, them they, these, it’s, an, a, and. Instead of filler words, use synonyms for what the filler word is referring to or no word at all. Another solution to eliminate filler words is to make a singular noun requiring a filler word plural. As an example: If the output would be, “An angler makes.” Avoid the filler word “An” by writing, “Anglers make.”
Do not use the concepts of tranquility or tranquil unless we also refer to opposite conditions, highlighting changing dynamics.
Limit usage of the words I, me, mine and my. Instead, use the words we, us, our, ours.
Add Quotes:
Quote both Henry David Thoreau about fishing and Tony Robbins about luck, once each as relevant to the story.
Instead of referring to failure, failing or fail, use words like challenge, challenges, learnings, sub-optimal outcomes, learnings, motivation.
Strictly do not exceed 2,900 characters, including spaces.
Ask for imperfection:
To avoid detection by AI checking tools, prevent grammatically perfect output by doing the following: Do not use an Oxford comma one time, where the last two ideas in the sentence are related enough to justify not using an Oxford comma.
Notes from aicontentfy
Obfuscating Text
Obfuscating text is a technique used to bypass AI content detectors. It involves altering and manipulating text in a way that makes it difficult for the detector to accurately analyze and interpret the content. One way to obfuscate text is through the use of synonyms, replacing common words with similar but less detectable alternatives. Another method is adding random or irrelevant words to the text, which creates noise and misleads the detector.
Altering Word and Sentence Structure
Altering word and sentence structure is a useful tactic for evading AI content detectors. By employing synonyms, antonyms, or rearranging sentence components, you can subtly modify your writing to appear unique or bypass detection algorithms. For instance, instead of using the term “important,” you could opt for synonyms like “significant” or “crucial.
” Likewise, sentence fragments or splitting a single sentence into two can also alter the structure and make it harder for AI detectors to identify plagiarized content. Practicing these techniques can assist in maintaining originality and avoiding detection by AI algorithms.
Changing Word Forms
1. Vary sentence structures by altering word forms to bypass AI content detectors.
Example: Instead of using the word “essential,” you can swap it with “necessary” or “vital” to maintain clarity and avoid triggering filters.
Example: Instead of relying on the term “pivotal importance,” consider phrases like “significantly influential” or “crucial significance” to evade detection.
2. Modify key phrases without sacrificing meaning.
Example: Instead of stating that something “plays a significant role,” you can rephrase it to “has a noteworthy impact” to circumvent content detection algorithms.
3. Experiment with different synonyms to conceal critical keywords.
Example: Rather than using “paramount importance,” explore alternatives such as “supreme significance” or “unmatched prominence” to avoid arousing AI scrutiny.
4. Strike a balance between practical guidance and theoretical insights when discussing the subject matter.
Example: Combine practical examples without mentioning specific brand names to provide actionable advice that readers can easily implement.
Quickest way to check Hreflang:
Check using the tests and reports here first:
https://businessdaduk.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/hreflang-checklist-nov-2023.xlsx
To crawl and include Hreflang Reports –
Menu Bar > Configuration > Spider > Crawl – Check the box to store Hreflang and Crawl (if you want to crawl and check they all 200)
To Filter on the Hreflang Tab
Click on the icon of the sliders on the top right Search window
You then get “Excel style” filtering options:
TL;DR – Use the hreflang Tab/Window
– Use the drop down menu to show each report
– Download – and check “indexable” URLs only –> none-indexable URLs don’t need a hreflang
– Check each indexable URL has appropriate number of hreflang
– Also check non-200 report
Find URLs without all of the relevant Hreflang Attributes:
Use the search function near the top right (click the slider icon) – Filter to show only “indexable” URLs to find URLs that should have return links, that are missing them.
Notes from Screaming Frog’s website
1) Select ‘Crawl’ and ‘Store’ Hreflang under ‘Config > Spider > Crawl’
2) To Crawl Hreflang In XML Sitemaps, Select ‘Crawl Linked XML Sitemaps’ Under ‘Config > Spider > Crawl’
3) Crawl The Website
4) View The Hreflang Tab
5) View the different Hreflang reports using the drop down menu
6) Perform a “crawl analysis” to see the 6th report
Reports
To bulk export details of source pages, that contain errors or issues for hreflang, use the ‘Reports > Hreflang’ options.
For example, the ‘Reports > Hreflang > Non-200 Hreflang URLs’ export,
Notes from Search Engine Land
Sometimes, the language and region values in a hreflang tag are not properly aligned with the page’s relevant languages or countries. This error can be trickier to handle as tools won’t be able to identify it, so a manual review will be needed to detect if the hreflang values are really showing the correct language and/or country for the page in question.
Remember, hreflang attributes require a language to be specified, but region is optional and should only be used when necessary (for example, if you want to serve different pages to Spanish speakers in Mexico and Spanish speakers in Spain).
It’s critical to verify, before implementing anything, whether the site is language or country targeted (or if there’s a mix of approaches that you need to be aware of). The hreflang values will need to be generated according to this targeting.
Another scenario I’ve found is that, in some cases, the language (or country) code hasn’t been correctly implemented and always specifies the same language (or country) for each alternate URL. In this example from Audible, the home pages for France and Germany have been tagged as English language pages, even though they’re really in French and in German, respectively:
Similar to the previous example, sometimes the hreflang attributes are showing the right language and/or country values, but the URLs have not been correctly specified.
For example, in the case of Skype, you can see that the English language version URL is always specified instead of the relevant language URL for each case. (Similarly, the canonical tag is always showing the English URL instead of the relevant one, as in the case of the Spanish language page below).
Full URLs including Full Prefix e.g. has www. instead of https://www. in hreflang
There are also situations where URLs that are meant to have absolute paths are not including the “https://” or “https://” at the start, making them relative URLs which don’t point to the correct page, as can be seen in this example:
Notes from LinkedIn article
In some cases, the same page may contain information for people speaking different languages, so using hreflang tags alone may not be sufficient. Using schema.org markup can help search engines more accurately recognize parts of web pages. For example, inLanguage defines the language of the content or performance or used in an action in schemes such as Event, CreativeWork, BroadcastService and others.
There are multiple free online tools available for testing. My favorite is https://technicalseo.com/tools/hreflang/ Google Search Console depreciated their country-targeting feature September of 2022, however, third party crawl tools such as ScreamingFrog and Ryte.com can uncover site-wide language and regional targeting issues fairly well.
If you use a tool and get the message:
| “Missing region-independant link for that language (en)” |
| It can mean, for example with the Technical SEO tool; that we need a generic URL for English speaking visitors, regardless of what region/country they come from. |
In practice, it’s often recommended to have a ‘fallback’ or a default hreflang tag for each language. For English, this would be a tag with the language code “en” without a country code. This tag acts as a catch-all for English speakers in regions not specifically targeted by other tags (like en-GB or en-US).
For example, if your website has English pages specifically for the US and the UK, your hreflang tags might look something like this:
<link rel="alternate" href="http://example.com/en-gb" hreflang="en-gb" /> for English speakers in the UK<link rel="alternate" href="http://example.com/en-us" hreflang="en-us" /> for English speakers in the USTo resolve the error, you would add a tag for a generic English version:
<link rel="alternate" href="http://example.com/en" hreflang="en" /> for English speakers in general, regardless of regionThis setup ensures that search engines know which page to show to English-speaking users based on their location, and also have a default page to show to English speakers in locations not covered by your region-specific tags.
Had to do this using inline styles to override stuff in the stylesheet etc
<div class="responsive-container" style="display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; align-items: flex-start; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0rem;">
<div class="text-container" style="flex: 1; min-width: 0; margin-right: 20px;">
<h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.4rem;">FIFA Basic</h3>
<p>
Gyda nod ansawdd FIFA Basic, mae Pêl-droed Clwb FORZA yn opsiwn cost-effeithiol ar gyfer timau pêl-droed o bob lefel ar gyllideb. Ar gael mewn meintiau 3, 4, a 5, mae'r peli hyn yn addas ar gyfer pob oed. Mae'r bledren butyl wedi'i amgylchynu gan chwe phanel wedi'i wasgu â gwres gyda deunydd polywrethan 1.2mm o drwch, i helpu'r bêl i gadw ei siâp ar ôl effeithiau dirifedi, yn ogystal â gwneud y bêl-droed o ansawdd gêm yn gwrthsefyll rhwyg ac yn gwrthsefyll y tywydd ym mhob cyflwr. Mae Pêl-droed Clwb FORZA ar gael mewn pecynnau o naill ai 1, 3, neu 30 pêl, ac mewn dau gyfuniad lliw (Gwyn a Glas neu Gwyn a Phinc).
</p>
</div>
<img class="responsive-image" src="https://nwscdn.com/media/wysiwyg/buyersguide/FIFA-Basic-Logo.png" style="max-width: 100%; flex-shrink: 0; width: 250px; align-self: flex-start;">
</div>
<style>
@media (max-width: 768px) {
.responsive-container {
flex-direction: column;
}
.text-container {
margin-right: 0;
}
.responsive-image {
width: 100%;
max-width: 100%;
margin-top: 20px;
align-self: center;
}
}
</style>Obviously, you probably want to change the parapraph text in the <p> and </p> tags and the header in <h3> tags and the image URL
I couldn’t do it all with inline styles in the end – media query had to be put in <style> tags in the HTML doc.
If you’re using a normal webpage – you want the style tags in the <head>
Summarised a few articles about SEO and headless CMS’s below:
<priority> and <changefreq> tags in sitemaps.
Pros and Cons of Traditional SEO
Comparison: Headless SEO vs. Traditional SEO
SEO Best Practices for Developers
Conclusion
Tech Audit case study from Bizwrites.com
Background
Approach
Technical Issues Identified and Dealt With
Results
Key Points about SEO in the JAMStack World with a Headless CMS
Final Takeaway
References:
https://opensenselabs.com/blog/articles/omnichannel-content-delivery-guide
In case you’re wondering what “omnichannel” means:
What is an omnichannel content approach? An omnichannel content approach is simply all about bringing together all content channels in order to make them work parallelly to improve and customize the user’s experience.
Paste URLs in column A (give the column a catchy title like “URLs” in cell A1)
Put this formula in cell B2:
=LEN(A2)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A2,"/",""))
Drag the formula down
Order – Z to A
You will now have the URLs with the most “/” at the top of column A
Below is an example for a webpage which lists different soccer balls for sale:
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
@context: "https://schema.org/",
@type: "OfferCatalog",
name: "Cakes for Sale",
description: "A catalog of cakes offered by our online store",
url: "https://www.example.com/all-cakes",
numberOfItems: 2,
itemListOrder: "https://schema.org/ItemListOrderAscending",
itemListElement: [{
@type: "Offer",
itemOffered: {
@type: "Product",
name: "Cake1",
image: "https://www.example.com/images/product1.jpg",
description: "Description of cake 1",
sku: "sku1",
manufacturer: "Manufacturer 1",
brand: "Brand 1",
offers: {
@type: "Offer",
price: "9.99",
priceCurrency: "USD",
availability: "https://schema.org/InStock"
}
}
}, {
@type: "Offer",
itemOffered: {
@type: "Product",
name: "Product 2",
image: "https://www.example.com/images/product2.jpg",
description: "Description of product 2",
sku: "sku2",
manufacturer: "Manufacturer 2",
brand: "Brand 2",
offers: {
@type: "Offer",
price: "199.99",
priceCurrency: "USD",
availability: "https://schema.org/InStock"
}
}
}]
}
</script>
once you’ve done your own code, you can check it using the schema testing sheet – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dDqJ9_qrTVoJOZRxieJDp9XE3Q1TCq4ixNVudVtgp2M/edit#gid=0
Here’s another example:
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "http://schema.org",
"@type": "OfferCatalog",
"name": "Competition Tennis Balls",
"description": "High-quality competition tennis balls for professional and amateur players.",
"url": "https://www.example.com/tennis-la/balls/competition-tennis-balls.html",
"itemListElement": [
{
"@type": "Offer",
"itemOffered": {
"@type": "Product",
"name": "Pro Tournament Tennis Ball",
"image": "https://www.example.com/images/pro_tournament_tennis_ball.jpg",
"description": "Premium quality tennis ball designed for professional tournaments.",
"brand": "example Pro",
"sku": "NWPRO123",
"offers": {
"@type": "Offer",
"priceCurrency": "USD",
"price": "20.00",
"availability": "http://schema.org/InStock",
"url": "https://www.example.com/pro-tournament-tennis-ball.html"
}
}
},
{
"@type": "Offer",
"itemOffered": {
"@type": "Product",
"name": "Championship Level Tennis Ball",
"image": "https://www.example.com/images/championship_level_tennis_ball.jpg",
"description": "High-performance tennis ball suitable for championship level play.",
"brand": "Example La",
"sku": "NWCHAMP456",
"offers": {
"@type": "Offer",
"priceCurrency": "USD",
"price": "15.00",
"availability": "http://schema.org/InStock",
"url": "https://www.example.com/championship-level-tennis-ball.html"
}
}
}
]
}
</script>Instead of Offercatalog, you may want to consider using CollectionPage schema…
Here’s an example of CollectionPage Schema for an eCommerce category page:
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "http://schema.org",
"@type": "CollectionPage",
"name": "Shopify Apps",
"url": "https://sherpas.design/pages/shopify-apps",
"description": "We build apps that function and feel natively Shopify",
"image": "https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0085/8515/0560/files/logox2_500x500.png?v=1555661781",
"isPartOf": {
"@type": "WebSite",
"name": "Sherpas Design",
"url": "https://sherpas.design"
},
"relatedLink": [
"https://sherpas.design/about-us",
"https://sherpas.design/contact"
],
"mainEntity": {
"@type": "ItemList",
"itemListElement": [
{
"@type": "ListItem",
"position": 1,
"url": "http://example.com/coffee_cake.html",
"name": "Coffee Cake",
"image": "http://example.com/images/coffee_cake.jpg",
"description": "product is yummy",
"brand": "NanesBakes"
},
{
"@type": "ListItem",
"position": 2,
"url": "http://example.com/apple_pie.html",
"name": "Apple Pie",
"image": "http://example.com/images/apple_pie.jpg",
"description": "product is yummy",
"brand": "MumsCakesYo"
},
{
"@type": "ListItem",
"position": 3,
"url": "http://example.com/blueberry-pie.html",
"name": "Blueberry Pie",
"image": "http://example.com/images/blueberry_pie.jpg",
"description": "product is yummy",
"brand": "NanesBakes"
}
]
}
}
</script>
More info on CollectionPage Schema for eCommerce in my other blog post here.
Some of the names of the reports can be confusing:
Exclude these/filter out by, in this instance adding a filter in Excel – does not contain – +
Check this blog post too about auditing canonicals and Hreflang tags
I’ve put together a spreadsheet for SEO schema checks here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dDqJ9_qrTVoJOZRxieJDp9XE3Q1TCq4ixNVudVtgp2M/edit#gid=0
Use https://classyschema.org/Visualisation and import a URL – test using different URLs, especially for eCommerce websites – like homepage, about page, product page, category pages
Test also with:
https://search.google.com/test/rich-results – add any issues in column C of sheet
and
https://validator.schema.org/ – add issues in Column D
When using validator, make sure you’re schema has all the relevant parameters.
The separate sheets on the Google Sheet linked above, has some examples for you to check against – written in JSON-LD
Finally, if the site is already live, check the schema reports in Search Console for any errors
If you have Screaming Frog, I’d also recommend running a crawl –
Go to Configuration – Spider – Crawl – and tick all the “Structured Data” boxes:
Then when the crawl has run – go to Reports – Structured Data and download each report
Finally, you can also check individual pages using the Ryte Structured Data Helper for Chrome –
| Check with CHrome plugin – Ryte structured data helper |
| https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ryte-structured-data-help/ndodccbbcdpcmabmiocobdnfiaaimgnk/related |
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