Accidentally checked privacy setting in WP to "not to index" and dropped rank...how can I fix this?
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I recently rebuilt a static website to a wordpress site...In the privacy settings ....the -"Ask search engines not to index this site" was checked and I didn't notice. I had a top ranking website now its completely gone off google and every where else. I have unchecked it, resubmitted a sitemap to google.....does anyone know if this is permanent damage or if there is something else I can do to help fix this......I'm freaking out
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Happy to hear all is well. Good job on the micro data. More should use it.
Robert
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Its ALIVE!!! ITS ALIVE!!!!.........my site is back! Thank you Robert & Daniel for the responses......I fetched as google the main pages of the site....sent a couple new links to the site...resubmitted the site map...added the some micro data for rich snippets( not sure if that did anything...I had not put that on my site before though) .......wow........That was super stressful
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Evers, the good news first - the change is not permanent. Good move on sitemap resubmit. One thing is that it will depend somewhat on how long the noindex was on: If you had a top ranked site in a very competitive vertical and rebuild occurred a year ago it is much more problematic. If it was two weeks ago, it is much less.
One thing I would look at is the pages indexed in GWMT and see how they look pre change and post to track if you are getting back. (This way if you are not seeing reindexing, you will act faster). Depending on the size of the site, you could also "fetch as Google" for some of the important pages as a way to speed up the indexing of the more significant pages.I am assuming that if there were url changes you took care of them with 301 or canonical.
Take a breath, but keep an eye on it all.
Robert
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I would try to send a fresh link to the domain. I think that would help your domain to be in google quicker.
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