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Facebook will draw the description from the open graph description tag if it is listed on the page and on your page this tag is there but it is blank:

<meta property=”og:description” content=””/>

I am not familiar with the plugin you are using and how it populates this tag, but since the open graph description tag is empty I am guessing that is why your description is blank.

Google will sometimes use text from the page as the meta description if they believe it is more appropriate then the meta description you wrote.

Newer sites tend to fluctuate more in the rankings until you establish some authority with the search engines. This fluctuation will typically continue for about the first 6 months, but it can last longer or shorter.

Continue to post quality unique content and eventually the rankings should begin to stabilize.

Instead of just saying ‘What do you think’ try to be more specific in your question such as ‘What do you think about blah blah blah’ so basically you are asking a specific question to hopefully spur more comments.

This is not a surefire method to solve your problem, but it could help. I have also found that in order to get more comments you need to make it as simple as possible by removing as many barriers as you can. Usually Anonymous posting helps with comments, but as soon as you do that you invite spam comments, so it is always a battle to balance fighting spam with generating more comments. Best of luck.

Are you asking questions in your posts or leaving calls to action for users to engage? Sometimes readers need to know how or what they should respond to.

That might seem obvious, but sometimes an elicit call for users to comment and respond can help.

Have you compressed the size of the images?

Yes Google will come back and re-index the page.

The more quality content you publish on your site and the more often you add new content, then the more likely Google will re-crawl your pages more often.

Naturally most people will link to your homepage, but if you can get them to link to a specific article or post rather then just the homepage that will increase your chances of that post ranking well.

Getting links to the homepage will help you, but it will be more beneficial for posts to rank well if they link directly to the post.

From an SEO perspective there are 2 things to consider:

1. If you think users will continue to search for the key phrase ‘2011 schedule’, or something like that, in the future then I would create a new page each year. Otherwise if you change the page each year you will lose your rankings for previous year phrases.

2. The advantage to just updating the same page each year is that you will most likely build links to this same URL over time, so when you update the page and target a new phrase, such as ‘2012 schedule’, you will already have some links pointing to the URL so you will have a good chance of that page ranking sooner.

If the site is no longer live, then you will have to rely on backups. Does the IWHOF.org have a backup? If not, your only other option may be to check with Bluehost to see if they still have a backup.

Think about how your users would look for articles. If the articles can naturally be grouped together then I would probably create different categories and then write posts and assign them to the appropriate category. This way users could drill down by category and find all of the available articles under it.

Typically you will be asked to verify your website again if the verification code or file no longer exists. Google offers 2 ways to verify your site: 1 is adding a meta tag with the verification code in it and the other way is to upload a file with the verification code in it to your root directory.

Make sure one of these verification methods still exists on your site. Even after Google has initially verified your site you need to leave these in place, because they check periodically for them to make sure they still exist.

If both of them are missing then you will need to add one of them back. Webmaster Central should have the methods and code needed to be added back to your site.

The numbers in Google do fluctuate from time to time, sometimes due to data issues on Google’s side. If the numbers do not jump back up within a few days, then it could be a sign that Google does not value those pages as highly, meaning they could be pages with little to none unique content so they have dropped them from their index.

If the count remains low try and figure out which pages are no longer indexed and take a look at them to see if you can do anything to increase the amount of unique content on them.

Also, like Ipstenu said, if you have signed up for a Google Webmaster account it might be able to help you identify certain issues that could be causing the drop.

It is good practice to 301 redirect all old URLs to the new ones, because the new URL format will most likely be different. Redirecting the old URLs is your best chance of maintaining your current rankings.

Are you referring to displaying page headings in alphabetical order in the admin section or are you trying to do something with the live site display?