Site not showing up in Google search since move
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Hi, hoping someone might help me with some answer(s) as to why our site no longer shows up in Google search results. Even when we type the full name and city into Google, the site is absent. Our Facebook page, LinkedIn and some backlinks show, but our site is missing. I can no longer find it in Google places.
I'm sure I've done something wrong since moving from a static (flash-based) site to Wordpress. But the robots.txt file looks okay to me and the sitemap.xml file is present.
Anyway, this is what happens when you ask a network technician handle website design... We know just enough to be dangerous!
Here is the site in question: www.newfrontiertechnologies.com located in Shoreline WA. Any advice is much appreciated.
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Xenu Link Sleuth, or even just a crawl test by Moz at https://moz.com/researchtools/crawl-test should help identify issues.
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Yep Keri is right. I'm using a framework on top of Wordpress. So though I checked the box in Wordpress to allow indexing, there was one buried in the framework I missed. Thanks for setting me straight. And thanks for the recommendation for Screaming Frog. I'll check it out.
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Yeah, if you remove that noindex from the home page it should fix your issue. Afterwards you should use Screaming Frog to test it and make sure it can be crawled. Hope this helps you out!
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The home page has a robots noindex on it, which won't help things. Couple of other pages do too, when I do a spot check. I'd check your settings in Wordpress.
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Hey NFTECH!
Few questioins...
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Did you move to a new server? And if so, did you change IP Addresses?
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Have you resubmitted the xml to WMT?
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