How can I check that Plug in SEO Plus has been properly installed?
If you’d like to double-check that Plug in SEO Plus is installed correctly in your theme just go through these steps to avoid common pitfalls.
Step 1: Check you don’t have more than one Page Title or Meta Description
Plug in SEO Plus should be the only place where page titles are generated in your theme.
- Open the Plug in SEO app
- View your ’SEO problems’ check
- The ‘Page Title’ check and the ‘Meta Description’ check should be a checkmark
Step 2: Check your Structured Data is being generated
Plug in SEO Plus will generate Structured Data for all of your key page types.
- Go to the Google Structured Data Testing Tool
- Pick one of each type of your pages: home, collection, page, blog, blog post, search and put their URL in the Structured Data testing tool
- If any issue is reported by the tool, make sure you've completed 'Editing and setting up Structured Data'
Step 3: Check that Plug in SEO Plus is in control
Sometimes other apps, your theme or a developer have changed things that means Plug in SEO Plus is no longer in control of your SEO data
- Open the Plug in SEO app
- View the ‘Page Titles and Meta Descriptions'
- Add the word ‘TEST' to the start of Homepage ‘Title Template’
- Press ’Save and Preview'
- Scroll the bottom of the page and view the Live Search Engine Preview
- You should see the word TEST at the start of the search preview title*
- Remove the word ’TEST’ from the Homepage ‘Title Template’
- Press ’Save and Preview'
*The search previews can take a few minutes to update. If the preview does not auto-update refresh the page.
Need more help? Email help+plus@pluginseo.com