Blog's Homepage isn't indexed even though posts are
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My blog http://www.cleanedison.com/blog/ doesn't seem to be indexed by Google even though my posts seem to get indexed within a day or so.
Is this not necessarily a bad thing? I feel like it would be nice to search "CleanEdison Blog" and get the homepage.
The robots say: name="robots" content="noodp,noydir,noarchive" />
Is there anything I can do?
P.S. My posts that get picked up by larger entities generally get ranked lower than the offshoot even though I have a rel="canonical" tag. Anything I can do there?
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OK so i actually took a minute to look at the site hehe
I see no glaring problem
I would change this to index, follow
name="robots" content="noodp,noydir,noarchive" />
sometimes Google will choose to noindex noarchived pages
Link to it from other sites and submit the URL in WMT
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This is strange - I'd try fetch as googlebot from within webmaster tools - I checked it with screaming frog through a crawl from the homepage, and it's accessible to the bots, and your canonical and meta index tags all look good.
For that, you can try pinging pubsubhubbub and letting them know the content is yours - https://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/
I'm sure you can find wordpress plugins to do this for you, like this one
Good luck!
Mark
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