Google search labels my blog as test and trialblog

  • johnbarker

    (@johnbarker)


    13 years, 3 months ago

    Hi
    I am a new WordPress user, so perhaps there is a very simple solution to my problem.
    I have created 5 pages of a blog. It has very little content and no posts other than those made by myself. When I enter my domain name into a google search. I can be found on page 70, no surprise I guess, but when I enter my domain name followed by ‘about me’ or ‘news’ or any of the other menu/page titles I have on the blog. I am found on the first page of the search. The problem is that the search finds 2 or 3 of the pages on my blog followed by ‘Stockholm Graphics & Design trial blog’ or in the case of entering ‘contact’ after my domain name I get ‘contact/test’ in the google search. This may be wording that I have entered somewhere in WordPress, but I have searched and searched and cannot find where.
    If anyone knows why this happens, how I can stop it and whether it may be affecting my ratings on a google search I would be very grateful. If you would like to try it for yourself the blog address is http://www.grafiskdesignstockholm.se and if you enter ‘grafiskdesignstockholm contact me’ into a google search you will see what I mean.
    Thankyou for any help you can give.
    John

Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)
  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    13 years, 3 months ago

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Search_Engine_Optimization_for_WordPress

    Jon Dingman

    (@jdingman)

    13 years, 3 months ago

    @john

    I would look at Joost’s SEO plugin to help optimize your SEO. I’ve been using it and been very happy with the results it provides.

    Esmi is also spot on, great resource there about SEO for WordPress.

    Thread Starter johnbarker

    (@johnbarker)

    13 years, 3 months ago

    esmi and jd
    Thanks very much for the 2 SEO options. I will take a look at both.
    I’m still puzzled as to why
    ‘Stockholm Graphics & Design TRIAL BLOG’ and
    ‘contact/TEST’
    appear in the google search.
    Is the TRIAL BLOG bit and the TEST bit generated by google or picked up from somewhere in my WordPress site?
    I should also say that I created the theme for the blog using Artisteer, maybe the TRIAL BLOG and TEST labels are coming from the Artisteer template??

    J

    phenomenoodle

    (@phenomenoodle)

    13 years, 3 months ago

    This may be left over from when you first started publishing content. Perhaps you (or the theme by default) uses ‘test’ as the initial site name in the WordPress admin settings, and this was being displayed as the page title before you changed it? As you add/change your content and page titles, Google should update the info it has in its index for you. There may just be a slight delay. You could consider signing up for Google webmaster tools and submitting your XML sitemap to also improve your performance in the search engines.

    Thread Starter johnbarker

    (@johnbarker)

    13 years, 3 months ago

    phenomenoodle
    Thanks very much

    I’ll consider this problem solved.
    Thanks to all for the help provided.

    John

Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)
  • The topic ‘Google search labels my blog as test and trialblog’ is closed to new replies.

Tags