agarlan

Thanks for these replies.

Verabass, maybe I’m just an idiot, but for some reason when enter https://www.thegulfmusic.om into the form on https://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/, it returns a message saying there are no errors… Why are you seeing 110 and I’m seeing none?

I’ve messed with the redirect stuff but I’m still not sure what precisely I need to do. Where do I do this redirect stuff? I’m not a pro with this particular part…

I’ll check into the 30 day re-visit instruction to bots. Thanks!

Please feel free to keep the suggestions coming… Google still hasn’t come back to index the site… still no results for any pages other than my home page…

Thanks, VeraBass, for continuing to respond to my posts.

I did the change 3 days ago with google and I’m still having problems. Yes, the links in the sitemap are written with the www. What’s happening now is strange – Google finds my home page, but doesn’t seem to find any of the other pages in my site. In webmaster tools, it’s like those other pages in the site don’t exist. I’m stumped.

How can I do a permanent redirect? Should I? Is there any downside to doing this?

Thanks again!

Thanks for the advice. In the Google webmaster tools, I just changed under Tools > Set Preferred Domain. I set the preferred domain to https://www.thegulfmusic.com. Hopefully this will help (it was previously set to default as thegulfmusic.com).

I am still a little bit confused, though.

It seems like the problem with my ranking is that all of the links on the internet that point to my site point to WWW.thegulfmusic.com. However, it seems that somehow that is no longer my domain (my domain is considered thegulfmusic.com – no WWW). If this is true, then the links around the net no longer point to my site. This would explain why Google doesn’t rank thegulfmusic.com very high (because all of the links throughout the web point to https://WWW.thegulfmusic.com).

Maybe I somehow removed the www from my domain when I switched hosts (I switched hosts when I created the new website based on wordpress). Or did I somehow remove the association with the www through some kind of wordpress configuration option?

I want Google to consider my site https://www.thegulfmusic.com. But is the problem something internal with my site? Is there something I need to do with my host or my domain name to make my site actually register with Google as https://www.thegulfmusic.com? Will changing my URL in WordPress Site Admin > Options > general make this happyen.

Sorry if this is confusing, but I’m generally confused. Is this a problem with the domain name I own, a Google sitemap (which I have on my site, by the way), a setting in WordPress, or something I need to set in Google webmaster tools?

Thanks again!
Adam

Thanks for all of the replies. Here are a few responses:

1. I made the new site (using wordpress) several months ago. At least 4 months ago, in fact.

2. I am supposedly using a google sitemap generator, but I have seen no results.

3. Currently, if people type https://www.thegulfmusic.com, they are directed to my website. They also get there by typing thegulfmusic.com. In my wordpress site Admin panel, my site is listed at thegulfmusic.com.

3. How can I change my entire site back to https://www.thegulfmusic.com? Would I do this from the Site Admin section of wordpress where I type in the URL? Or would I have to do something with my directory structure? Or would I have to do something with my domain?

I’m very confused.

Thanks to all of you for your help so far.