Crawler issues
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Can anyone please suggest why our site is not being crawled by Google at the moment?
Thanks,
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No problem, happy to help
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Thats a good point Adam. Thanks for your assistance.
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Thanks Doug. That is really helpful.
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Thanks for your help Chris
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Yep. We did that. Thanks for the suggestion.
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whoop there it is!
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Double check your redirects again. When I tried to check your backlinks, I was showing redirects between tasteinc.com, www.tasteinc.com, and www.tasteinc.com/ Every time I tried to find the profile using one of those links, it would tell me that it redirects to another one of those.
I didn't have a problem going to your site, but the way that software was trying to crawl things, I would double check that again. That's the only issue that I saw. Has the site been up long?
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Tried to crawl your site with Screaming Frog and noticed that your http response header contains a x-robots-tag which is being set to noindex, nofollow.
You can check your http headers on this site: http://web-sniffer.net/
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I would agree with Mike you can see how here - https://support.google.com/sites/answer/100283?hl=en-GB
How long have you had the site up for? Remember it can take time for it to get crawled. You can ask google to crawl a page but this can still take time.
Good luck.
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Hi Craig,
Did you submit your sitemap in Google Webmaster Tools?
Mike
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