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Wordpress theme content not crawlable?
Been working on my personal portfolio site for a few months now. I've been linking into several blog posts from twitter and facebook for a while now, but it seem that my site has not been crawled by Google. I decided to test it out by copying some paragraphs from blog posts and searching it on Google. No successful results. Is something in my code is preventing my site to be crawled??
I am using a wordpress template that I have modified. I have added a description tag too, but for some reason google doesn't show the description when my url is displayed as a search result.
I'm no programmer so bare with me. Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks!
GeoffWong(dot)ca is the url
or just google my name "Geoff Wong" and it will be the first result.
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Two reasons why your pages aren't indexed yet:-
1. All bots blocked through your robots.txt file http://geoffwong.ca/robots.txt
Quote:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Get the / out of the file
2. You have the robots meta tag with noindex,nofollow
Quote:
<meta name='robots' content='noindex,nofollow' />
Which indicates you're restricting all robots from indexing and following links from your domain.
Go to WP admin > Settings > Privacy and select
I would like my site to be visible to everyone, including search engines (like Google, Bing, Technorati) and archivers
NOTE: Remember, sometimes when you're using any automatic script installers to install WordPress such as Fantastico, Installatron, Softaculous etc, they, by default block all the search engines from accessing your blog.
So it's always better to check the privacy settings after installing WP through any automatic script installers.
However with the 3.0 and above versions, you will get a note at the top left corner of the dashboard if your privacy settings are blocking search engines from accessing your blog.
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Give me a shout if you are still struggling, I've just recently launched my own WP themed website and had the same issues until it was pointed out to me!
It's easy once you know where to look and how to change the settings! :-)
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