Website being crawled but not indexed any thoughts?
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Hi Everyone,
I created a new website a few weeks ago www.drivingseaford.co.uk , did a little link citation, links from Google+, submitted to webmaster tools etc but its still not getting indexed.Webmaster tools crawl stats page is showing pages being crawled, no errors. But 0 indexed.
http://www.drivingseaford.co.uk/robots.txt is showing
User-agent: * Disallow: /wp-admin/ Disallow: /wp-includes/
Im a bit stumped as never had this before!!! Any ideas from you lovely people??
Antony
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Your absolutely right Chris, I was in the process of rewriting all the content and going to be getting the blog going. Also now looking at quality links etc. Google places done, so was trying to get some local citations.
Ant
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Ah ok it was something in the Wordpress theme options for "Choose Google Bot Indexing Type" that wasnt selected. Ive now changed it to
Thanks for that. Much appreciated.
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Good catch! I noticed that as well, but had never seen content="none" and didn't look into it any further. However, Anthony, you are going down the wrong path as far as your content and you're going to have to spruce that up for your sites or you're setting yourself up for panda problems.
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Hi Antony,
Saw that you had
<meta name="<a class="attribute-value">robots</a>" content="<a class="attribute-value">none</a>" />
on your website, and as it's said here http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.fr/2007/03/using-robots-meta-tag.html, that means NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW
So just erase those lines and you should be good !
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