Be careful with JetPack for Wordpress!!

by Intrepreneur Posted: 12 years ago 6 replies

Hey guys this is just a heads-up for you all and JetPack for Wordpress.

The plugin causes problems. In that it generates opengraph tags for your site and there is no way to set them up or turn them off.

Basically it turns them on as set and forget but there's an issue.

Google uses them somehow too.

And it seems that they ruined rankings on all my sites!!

As I've calculated this (I do a changelog on all my sites) and after removing the Opengraph feature of JetPack they all improved in SERP again within 2 days.

Just a heads up.

If you want to find out how to disable that feature: Google it

#search engine optimization #careful #jetpack #wordpress

Rehmat 12 years ago

Thank you for mentioning this. I wasn't using it due to the fact that it badly slows down your WordPress site. Uncountable tables are generated soon after you activate the plugin. When JetPack comments are enabled, it loads them in iframe. Auto-sharing is done through WordPress.com, meaning that it increases links to external scripts and so on. I agreed, WP users should NOT use it.
RobinInTexas 12 years ago

I gave it a try, seemed like a SwissArmyWatch, until I ran WordPress › P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) « WordPress Plugins along with it and decided not to take the performance hit that went along with it.
webdevpro 12 years ago

I used it on one of my site, didn't liked it and now uninstalled. Thanks for mentioning it.
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- OnlineStoreHelp 12 years ago
  
  Thanks for this. I was considering playing with it since I see so many sites using it but I am gonna pass at this time. Good thing is Softaculous doesn't install it like simple scripts does.
ibarena 12 years ago

Rather use Yoast for SEO and not Jetpack. I used Jetpack earlier but I show all these issues popping up.
nettiapina 12 years ago

Jetpack is very bloated. I've also looked checked it with the P3 profiler on several sites, and uninstalled it on most. There's some good stuff, but it's just not worth it.

I find it a bit hard to believe that OpenGraph tags would have such a drastic effect. Google seems to take their time to even notice them, let alone change SERPs based on them.

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Be careful with JetPack for Wordpress!!

Intrepreneur • 12 years ago • 6 replies

Hey guys this is just a heads-up for you all and JetPack for Wordpress. The plugin causes problems. In that it generates opengraph tags for your site and there is no way to set them up or turn them off.