Onetone Home page not indexed by Google.

  • WordPress defaults to having the posts page as the Front Page, and unless the Front Page is set to something else, this is the page that Google indexes. The usual alternative to this is setting the Front Page to a custom static page.

    The problem is that the Onetone home page cannot be set as the front page in the WordPress Settings > Reading tab. It isn’t shown in the dropdown.

    The result is that Google doesn’t index it, but rather indexes any available post.

    How can the WordPress “Front Page” be set to the Onetone home page, so that it is indexed properly?

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  • Hi guys!!

    Thanks a lot for all the feedback! Somehow my homepage is now shown (copy site:marijnkuiper.com in the URL bar).

    I didn’t change anything before or after posting in this thread (same settings as posted before) so I don’t know why Google it’s indexing correctly now. I will check on regular basis and notice the same issues again I will notify you! ??

    Marijn

    @ marijnkuiper, that’s great! …. really, nice ??

    hassidsfx

    (@hassidsfx)

    I am having the same problem. The site has been live for three weeks but still no indexing whatsoever despite having all the same settings you’re talking about above. If you google r100rs.acoustibat.com it comes up with nothing at all. UN_Rick, did you find a solution to the problem?

    Thread Starter UN_Rick

    (@un_rick)

    Not a true solution. I’m still hoping the authors of the theme will support it soon.

    Meanwhile, being WordPress defaults to the posts page as the home page, on this particular site I was able to remove all posts, and then set up a 301 redirect pointing all traffic that tried to access posts to the Onetone page. Obviously this won’t work for all situations, but if you don’t need posts, it’s a clunky but functional workaround.

    For any of you that use this idea, even if it solves the issue for you, please still comment here. The more people that show awareness of this issue, the greater the chance the dev team might actually fix this major flaw in an otherwise very nice theme.

    hassidsfx

    (@hassidsfx)

    I’ll give it a try and let you know, UN_Rick. I don’t use posts in my page. I actually have three onetone sites so it’s pretty annoying if I can’t get traffic driven to these sites via search engines. Interestingly, one of the three does show up if I do a word search of the site name. However, if I use any of its key words, google doesn’t find it.

    If I understand, the problem is in the fact that all the text is just part of an “option”? Is that right? And that our actual pages are empty? I wonder if I can put bogus text in the pages, and they won’t appear anyway but will attract the crawling? I might give that a try.

    Yes, developers, please look into this!

    https://www.r100rs.acoustibat.com
    https://www.r100cs.acoustibat.com
    https://www.crafter.acoustibat.com

    hassidsfx

    (@hassidsfx)

    OK, here’s what I did. I copied and pasted all my Section 2 text into the “Sample Page,” which is the only “real” page in the whole website. I renamed it something with my main keywords. I then used Yoast SEO to optimize the SEO stuff in that particular page. Then in the html code I added this at the top: <head>
    <meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0; URL=’https://crafter.acoustibat.com'&#8221; />
    </head>

    That got my page redirecting back to the onetone layout. Clunky, yes, but I hope it works.

    Also, that meta sometimes just spontaneously disappears so I don’t know how long this solution will last!

    I did this same thing with all three sites. Hopefully crawlers will pick up the keywords now because it’s not sufficient for it to locate the website by the name only.

    goviral

    (@goviral)

    Wow, I have just finished building a site with Onetone. Very happy with the look but very concerned about the SEO issues.

    I need to use posts so not sure what workaround I can give.

    Are the theme developers commenting on this thread?

    J M

    (@manaal)

    I need help with another few more things.

    1. What is the size of the image background used in contact us section?

    2. When i open website in my mobile, the slider gets cropped, the menu gets too huge… The other sections as well get too large. For example the about tab gets too huge it makes the contact information appear in many lines like

    Ph:+271
    2128 3020

    3. Is there any way to add in the fade in transition to the main slider?

    Mary

    (@marypop)

    J M, good questions but please start a new topic for them.

    Hi Rick,

    I think i understand your problem. I spent a long time putting in all the content and polishing. And only got to find out of a particularity at the final stage of SEO.

    I realised this happens when you install a plugin like Yoast seo. If you look at the head tags, yoast inserts the meta tags treating my homepage as my blog page. Probably this confuses google into thinking its not the homepage.

    I tried playing around with the Reading settings in wordpress, but not much we can do there. And since its a free plugin i doubt there will be support.

    Until we find a way to get the yoast meta tags to display correctly, I guess the problem will continue. I may try out other plugins to see if its a universal problem vs a plugin issue.

    Brian

    In the end what i did was to selectively disable the SEO plugin on the homepage, and so that I can put in my own meta tags there.

    I wrote a post on how to do it.

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