My WP does not get indexing, ideas?

so google ignores other areas of the domain that does have content?

You might have seen a previous post earlier where I said I had the same problem…. Well not any more. This is what I did…

I have the Google XML Sitemaps plugin installed. I changed the default settings for change frequency on the Homepage to weekly and for posts to daily… I then changed the priorities to .5 for the homepage and 1 for the posts.

I then manually submitted the sitemap… Boom all pages, categories, tags, authors and posts all indexed in less than 24 hours! Might work for you. However…..

Now I have another potential problem I think. The google bot in a fit of mania I think has literally indexed everything which means there seems to be duplicated indexing, for example one listing with tag in the url and another listing with the actual category in the url pointing to the same page!

Don’t know if this is a problem or not really. Thought I would run with it for a while and see what happens. I haven’t got any robots.txt file uploaded so may have to restrict one or the other but not sure what I should restrict and what I should not!

I do not think I would worry about that minor duplicate unless you are doing something shady, I think google is smarter then that, but it surely would not hurt to have a robots.txt and rule out anything that you do not want google to look at for sure…

The script I have on the home page is somewhat expensive, and i find it difficult to work with, even add-ons are expensive…

1: I have not content yet for my home page.
2: currently all titles are duplicate that google has indexed.

I think in my case when google stopped crawling the home page, then they also stopped crawling the blog, forum, etc..so even when I add content to the blog, then i do not think it matters right now to google, as it appears they only care about the home page, and they are not crawling the home page right now to crawl content on other pages.

Once, I add the seo mod to use unique titles/descriptions, start adding content to the home page, then I think google will start to crawl the site, and the site should take off like a rocket, but I am looking @ around $1000 to get what I need for the main site…right now, I just do not think google has a lot to do on the home page right now, and is ignoring other areas until i add more content to the home page.

This is interesting. I am looking at my XML that I submited to google webmaster for the home page:

Submitted urls: 2500
only 216 urls in web index.

Since there is no seo mod installed, and all titles/descriptions are the same (duplicates) I would bet this indexed number is low for this exact reason, so out of 2500 urls that look the same, they added 216 urls to the index, once I add the seo mod too unique titles/descriptions, then google should index much more, so they added 216 urls and ignored the rest most likely they saw it would only be duplicate content.

when I compared this xml to my article directory which is on another domain, then you see a big difference, a really big one…

Submitted urls: 448
435 urls in web index

So google has indexed almost 98% of the site?

maybe because the article/content titles/descriptions
for each article are unique to google for the site.

Doing something shady? As if?

No I haven’t changed anything from the default settings as provided by wordpress on the basis that many people aren’t able, competent, or just like me, plain lazy and therefore google has seen it all before.

Unless google in a state of web morality, which they sometimes state in their TOS, penalizes lazyness!

shady meaning that one would be trying to multiplate google, grey hat, black hat, etc…google knows better, I doubt they are going to penalize you for being lazy, if so, we all would be out of luck, however, it never hurts to tweak as much as you can so everything is considered unique, but I think they are not going to kill you over some duplicate tags/urls as I am sure if this was the case, most every site would be de-indexed, google has to be smarter then that, and I think they would more likely be going after the type of sites that try to multiplate their content on purpose so to trick google into giving them higher search results, but if you are not doing any of that, then I think you are fine. Add a robots.txt, and add rules to what you do not want google to look at…

I doubt they are going to penalize you for being lazy

Conversely, however, they don’t reward you for it.

If you’re not posting NEW content, you lose points.

I was adding content, but not the home page, but other areas of the domain ie /blog /forum, etc..

Google Webmaster Tools? You guys are kidding right? Friend – Install the Google XML Sitemap plugin. Everyone had great ideas for you!

Never the less – your major problem is your site not only has little content, that thing which is most needed to get ANYTHING indexed is missing – an overall site theme (content for geo-targetting). Do you know what you are trying to accomplish? If you have no content, you have no categories, theme, bread crumb trails or anything else…

Rethink your direction