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Steve, it sounds like www.purplebananas.com is the same as the keyword you're needing to rank for, correct? A couple possibilities here:

1. SEOmoz's data is inaccurate.

2. There is a quality issue with your site on some level.

There has been some significant Google algorithm updates for exact match domains recently. It may require an inclusion request to Google after you've made some updates. If you haven't already, make sure you're using the latest version of Wordpress and install Yoast's SEO for Wordpress plugin. Make sure your XML sitemaps and Robots.txt are set up correctly. Also, make sure you're in compliance from the Google Webmasters Tools perspective (no notices or warnings).

If you find that you're not listed anymore for your domain name, it's possible you've been removed due to a trademark penalty, which means there's some significant issues with duplicate content or Google thinks you're trying to spam it in one way or another.

Having a pro evaluate the site and your various TLDs for major no-no's may be a good solution if you cannot resolve it with the steps above.

Hope that helps and best of luck.

Several of my sites are aliased (hosted in subdirectories off the root domain on a single hosting account, but visible at www.theSubDirectorySite.com) Not ideal, I know, but that's a different issue.

I want to block bots from viewing those files that are accessible in subdirectories on the main hosting account, www.RootDomain.com/SubDirectorySite/, and force the bots to look at www.SubDirectorySite.com instead.

I utilized the canonical meta tag to point bots away from the sub directory site, but I am wondering what will happen if I use robots.txt to block those files from within the root domain.

Will the bots, specifically Google bot, still index the site at its own URL, www.AnotherSite.com even if I've blocked that directory with Disallow: /AnotherSite/ ?

THANK YOU!!!

Steve, it sounds like www.purplebananas.com is the same as the keyword you're needing to rank for, correct? A couple possibilities here:

1. SEOmoz's data is inaccurate.

2. There is a quality issue with your site on some level.

There has been some significant Google algorithm updates for exact match domains recently. It may require an inclusion request to Google after you've made some updates. If you haven't already, make sure you're using the latest version of Wordpress and install Yoast's SEO for Wordpress plugin. Make sure your XML sitemaps and Robots.txt are set up correctly. Also, make sure you're in compliance from the Google Webmasters Tools perspective (no notices or warnings).

If you find that you're not listed anymore for your domain name, it's possible you've been removed due to a trademark penalty, which means there's some significant issues with duplicate content or Google thinks you're trying to spam it in one way or another.

Having a pro evaluate the site and your various TLDs for major no-no's may be a good solution if you cannot resolve it with the steps above.

Hope that helps and best of luck.