Hi Support,
Thanks for all the hard work on the theme and your support answers.
I’ve built my custom home page and am setting up Yoast SEO.
I see now that each “new row” I built in the custom home page builder is actually a post which I can see when I look under All Posts.
My question is: can I tell the Yoast plugin to exclude the posts (by their id) – because if someone clicks on the SERP link I want them to go to the home page not the individual post page. In fact as far as the front page content, I never want people going to the individual posts. (There will be other posts where I do want the post page to be shown, but this is not the case for any of the front page content.)
Will excluding individual post id’s from the SEO setup will still SEO the main home page –
or if excluding the individual posts also excludes SEOing the home page automatically.
Now that I’ve written this I think I can exclude the individual post pages and SEO still applies to the main home page, yes?
I can easily get to, and edit, the SEO settings for the custom home page. So, this is why I think I can tell the plugin to ignore individual post ids.
Please advise.
Thank you,
Shelly
Hi Shelly
Thanks for reaching out.
I see now that each “new row” I built in the custom home page builder is actually a post which I can see when I look under All Posts.
That shouldn’t be the case. We can login to your WordPress installation and confirm this if you’d like.
If we’re looking at this home page here: http://dietsaredone.com/. I can’t see any posts on that page. Can you confirm?
Oh – I really did think each new row was a post. Huh. I’ll check right now.
Ok. I double-checked and of course, you are right. I had gone through a few iterations before I settled on theme Vantage and had to create posts to get the sectioned effect I wanted on the front page. I recreated the posts using the Vantage custom home page option. Since the titles of the posts and the titles of the sections on the front page were the same, looking at the list of posts made it look like the Vantage front page “new rows” were posts. If I had looked closer at the date I would have seen they were published at different times.
Sorry to bother you with this after all.
Thanks for clearing up my confusion.
-Shelly
Super, glad to hear you made progress with this :) All the best with your site.