Problems with search engine results for site

  • Resolved cazzuey

    (@cazzuey)


    12 years, 8 months ago

    Hey folks, My friend runs a WordPress site and it is a non-blog site. When I search the site on Google a few pages pop up but they are scattered everywhere. He has a SEO plugin and the privacy settings are fine. How can we get the site to show up?

    Thanks in advanced,
    Harry

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  • Should be:
    <meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />

    The change should be made on all the URLs where they appear NOT JUST IN SITE MAP, but on actual posts/pages. Make these changes and then create your sitemap. Otherwise it is of no use (VERY BAD SEO).

    Thread Starter cazzuey

    (@cazzuey)

    How do I change it to that?

    Thread Starter cazzuey

    (@cazzuey)

    How do I change that on each URL?

    Check if the plugin SEO Ultimate has provisions for that. If not you have to do manually. I do not know about any such plugin, because I rarely use plugins for SEO.

    Thread Starter cazzuey

    (@cazzuey)

    How do I change it manually?

    Go to dashboard and open header.php. If you find the line <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" /> you can remove it. Or, you can add the line with index,follow. That will temporarily solve the problem. But if the plugin is active, it will add the old lines again, it seems. However, when you create the sitemap, you can know what is actually happening.

    Thread Starter cazzuey

    (@cazzuey)

    And I do this for every PHP?

    Thread Starter cazzuey

    (@cazzuey)

    Do I change <meta name=”robots” content=”noindex,follow to index,follow? or do I add it?

    No, only once in header.php. It will take care of all the posts.

    It should be <meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />. Add it if no similar metatags are found in the header section. If you find anything else but similar to this, change it to what I suggested.

    Thread Starter cazzuey

    (@cazzuey)

    Trying it now! Thanks so much for your help.

    Thread Starter cazzuey

    (@cazzuey)

    I have had it changed for quite some time now. Nothing new in the results.

    Would you mind taking a look at the entire source of https://www.mcprohosting.com
    It would be greatly appreciated

    Thanks in advance,
    Harry

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    Thread Starter cazzuey

    (@cazzuey)

    Here is the sitemap https://www.mcprohosting.com/sitemap.xml

    You may submit the link at your Google Webmaster Tools account. Within some time (maximum one or two days, or even less), you can check how many pages are indexed from the same account.

    I know. 621 pages are indexed.

    But your sitemap show only a few links. Why? Do several posts/ pages still have noindex in them?

    Thread Starter cazzuey

    (@cazzuey)

    I mean when I search site:www.mcprohosting.com I get 621 results.But, it seems that some links lead to nothing but 404s. I’m tearing my hair out over this! I appreciate all of your help very much. Would you mind taking a look at the source? I checked and the pages that do have that meta tag are all set to index.

    Thanks in advance,
    Harry

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