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Sorry I never replied...It all looks good now.

Update: I found this code in my htaccess file...

Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow"

So I commented it out like so..

#Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow"

And resaved it.

I imagine this is all I needed to do.  If you think I should have done something else, please let me know.

Thanks Robert, the answer to your two "Edit" questions is Yes (htaccess.txt was renamed to .htaccess and "seo friendly URLs" was selected as YES).

It makes sense that what Alan suspects is my main problem (i.e. there is a no-index, no-follow on the homepage) so I'm hoping he can point me in the right direction to correct it. If you know and see my reply before he does, please let me know

Thanks for the heads up on the canonical issues, will correct that.

As for this X-robots header, do you know where I can find that code to either change the no-index, no-follow to index, follow, or delete it completely?  I tried to view what you said in IE, but when I click F12, the window that pops up doesn't have a "Networks" tab.

I am searching my site files for X-robots header and can't find this area, so if you could give me any insight on correcting this, I would be very appreciative.  If that is the problem (and I trust that it is), I really gotta get it fixed ASAP

Side note you may not know:  If I correct the X-robots header to be index, follow, should the site start showing up again in Google results immediately or could it take longer?

We had a site from Feb-2011 to Nov-2011 at the domain amcoexterminating.com. The site was pure HTML/CSS and the daily unique visitors steadily increased over that time. So all was fine.

We then moved the site to a CMS (Joomla)  on Dec. 6th.  From that day forward, the daily visitors went into the tank.

Before the move, if you typed "amcoexterminating.com" or "amco exterminating" into Google search, the site would be the first result (as you'd expect since those are the words that make up the actua domain).  But we tried this yesterday and the site did not come up at all.  NOT GOOD.  It would work in Yahoo or Bing, but not in Google.  So obviously, the problem with Google search directly affected the daily visitors.

We just checked Webmaster tools yesterday (yes, this should have been done sooner, lesson learned) and it said "Site has severe health issues - Important page blocked by robots.txt".  It listed the "important" page URL and it was just a link to an image. Regardless, I wiped out the Joomla created robots.txt file and added a new one and made it just say...

User-agent: *Allow: /

About 14 hours later, after the new robots.txt file was recognized by Google, the "severe health" message went away.  However if I search in Google for "amcoexterminating.com", it still doesn't show up and the client is concerned (as they should be).

Do you think the search engines just need more time to refresh?  If so, once it refreshes, should the site show up first again right away?

Or is it possible the robots.txt file had nothing to do with the issue?  If so, what other things could I check into that might cause Google search to not find a site even if you search for exact domain name?

Please share any and all things I should look into as I need to get this site showing in Google search again (as it was before moving to the CMS).

Thanks!