• Resolved BestofNice

    (@bestofnice)


    Inexplicably, 2 years ago, my website traffic dropped off a cliff.
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    I have finally discovered that the problem is meta tags in my code instructing search engines not to index it (!), and I have no idea how these tags got in there:
    <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />

    Now that I’ve finally identified the culprit, I searched the help forum, but the solutions are not working (for instance, it says go to settings/general/options/privacy/blog visibility, but in Settings/general I don’t have any of those!). I have the Yoast SEO plug-in (installed long after this problem started) and I checked the meta-tag section and none of the noindex boxes are checked anywhere. It is a really simple site I use Twenty-10.

    Can anyone help me get this catastrophe out of my code so that I can be indexed by search engines again? This has killed my site.

    Thank you!

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  • it is added (with some other stray code) in one of the textwidgets;
    the one with this title: ‘Best Deals on Nice Hotels

    that code is meant for a web page, not a code section added within a web page via textwidget.

    posssibly contact the source of that code for a valid replacement…

    Thread Starter BestofNice

    (@bestofnice)

    Thank you so, so much!!

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