Trying to reset privacy

  • Resolved Tobermory

    (@tobermory)


    13 years ago

    I have had the wordpress privacy setting at ‘private’ whilst constructing the website so that Google wouldn’t index it. I have now re set the privacy to public, and it is showing that staus on the wordpress button. However, the Google spider is registering it as ‘disallow’. I have tried putting in a robot.txt with the ‘allow’ code but it still won’t spider. Also, the Google adds don’t work. I can’t find the setting in the database? Now tearing my remaining hair out! Help please

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    Unless you provide a link to a page demonstrating the problem, no one will be able to offer much in the way of assistance.

    Thread Starter Tobermory

    (@tobermory)

    Sorry! The domain is https://www.isle-of-iona.net The blank space on the right hand side is where the Google add should be. The site is being transferred from https://www.isle-of-mull.com where you can see it working. The only difference is .net is with Freezone and .com with oneandone

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    There is no privacy setting on that site but it may take a little while for Google to update its cache.

    Thread Starter Tobermory

    (@tobermory)

    OK. I removed the robots.txt just in case. How did you know that there was no privacy setting? Oh yes, and thanks for that!

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    How did you know that there was no privacy setting?

    I examined the source of the pages on your site.

    Thread Starter Tobermory

    (@tobermory)

    There is no mention of robots follow or anything that I can see. Sorry to be a pain, but what were you looking for?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    A nofollow, noindex meta tag in the <head>,?head> section of your pages.

    Thread Starter Tobermory

    (@tobermory)

    Ah! That is really useful to know!
    Many many thanks for your help!
    Alan

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