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If the comments have nothing to do with your site then just delete them they are spam. Do not add them if they do not add anything useful for your users.

Google states that they reserve the right to choose their own titles or descriptions and can override what you specify if they think they can display something more relevant, but what is displaying for you is not correct and definitely not more relevant.

Have you looked at the source code for your page to see what is contained in the title and meta description tags in the header?

I should also ask if you have these tags populated on your pages.

I agree with Tim, that I have seen it take a few days sometimes to update in Google Webmaster Tools.

In my experience, even though it says there is still a conflict, I have found Google to be crawling the site once I changed the robots.txt, they just had not updated the error message in Webmaster Tools yet.

Have you tried fetching the page in Google Webmaster Tools to make sure the title Google is retrieving is exactly what you have entered?

Look under the diagnostics tab to do this.

Ipstenu is correct. You can now request Google to recrawl specific pages in Webmaster Tools under Diagnostics >> Fetch as Googlebot.

Then after you submit your URL you have the option to ‘Submit to Index’. Click on that.

Keep in mind that Google crawls according to page rank so the higher your page rank the quicker those pages will get crawled, but new posts will likely not have a high page rank unless it is internally linked from high page rank pages on your site like the homepage.

From Matt Cutts:
“we crawl roughly in the order of PageRank, that means the more PageRank you have the faster you are likely to be found and more deeply we crawl your site and more often we visit your pages if they have been refreshed.”

https://techpatio.com/2009/search-engines/google/matt-cutts-google-crawls-pagerank-video-bloggers

There are pros and cons from a SEO perspective of breaking up an article into multiple pages.

A positive to breaking up your article into multiple pages is that it allows you to target different keywords per page and target your optimization for those keywords better. Chances are you will also have a higher pages per visit (PPV) data point for your site since most users will click through to secondary pages.

Negatives are that there is less content per page and a single page has to target all of the keywords for that article which can decrease the chances of the article ranking well for many different keywords.

A positive to a single page post is that typically people will link to the first page of an article so all of the link juice will end up going to the first page, but if the article is multiple pages and people are only linking to the first page then the secondary pages of the article will not receive as much link juice since it will be diluted as it filters down.

Personally, I have not had much success with secondary pages of an article ranking well, so I usually just focus on creating single page articles, but you could have more success.

I would not spend too much time worrying about it, but would rather spend your time focusing on creating quality content for your posts.

If you do a search for your site in Google you will see that Google has crawled and indexed pages on your site.

site:moderntimes.com

If it is not ranking well, then you need to work on optimizing your pages and getting quality, relevant sites to link to it.

Is your site new, less than 6 months old? Sometimes newer sites will drop in the rankings for 6 months or so until it gains some authority and credibility in Google’s view.

Is the content on your site unique, or is it copied from somewhere else? Make sure the content on your site is unique.

Can you tell where the traffic was coming from before the drop? If it was coming from the search engines, do you know what search terms they were entering and if you do are you still ranking for those terms?

If most of your traffic was coming from Facebook before, perhaps your EdgeRank score in Facebook has dropped so your posts are not being seen by as many people.

Those are a few questions to ask yourself and research.

Both sitemaps are fine and it will not hurt you to have them both.

The XML sitemap is helpful to the search engines because they can tell if there are any pages on your site they have not crawled and indexed yet.

If you have 2 pages with the same content than it is possible that the search engines may discount one of them and choose which should be used in the rankings.

If you have a recent posts page that lists the same content found on individual article pages, then I would noindex the recent posts page.

Did the structure of the site (URLs, code, etc.) change at all when you moved it, or is it exactly the same?

Has Google reviewed the code yet? They just announced a new 2 step process for new Adsense publishers:

Google AdSense announced a new application approval process for new publishers.

The process is now two phased:

(1) Submitting the normal AdSense application

(2) Adding the code to your site and having Google review the code.

Prior all you had to do was be approved on the first step. Now, Google is requiring a second step, reviewing your ad code.

When the ad code is added, the ads will be blank. But “soon after the ad code has been added to the submitted site, a final approval decision will be made and the applicant will be notified by email.”

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-adsense-approval-13959.html

Check your .htaccess file to see if any changes have been made to it.

I would start with the plugin (Facebook OG Meta) you are using to see if you can set it or access it in there since that looks like it adds the Facebook open graph tags to your page.

I am not familiar with that plugin, so unfortunately I cannot provide any more direction than that.