James Kenny Photography
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Posted 1 year ago #
I've had a blog (http://www.jkenny.co.uk/blog/) for over three months now and Google (or any other search engine for that matter) hasn't listed it, even though it has crawled my website a few times since the blog went on. I was wondering if I might be doing something wrong?
I have installed the Yoast SEO plugin, and in the 'Indexation' settings page, none of the boxes are checked- should I be checking some of them?
What other aspects of my blog could be affecting my listings?
I know this question has been asked a lot before, and the common answer is "just wait", but I think this is probably too long now...
s_ha_dum
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Posted 1 year ago #
James Kenny Photography
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Posted 1 year ago #
Hi, yes that is me- I know that the rest of my site shows up fine- but not the blog... Searching for site:www.jkenny.co.uk shows up every part of my sire other than the /blog/ directory. This is the problem.
I have a webmaster tools account and have uploaded sitemaps for my site and blog a long time ago.
Is google showing any errors?
James Kenny Photography
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Posted 1 year ago #
As in crawl errors? No, well none to do with the blog anyways... Is there somewhere else I would see any errors?
Yes, the crawl errors for one :)
But also, do you have any internal pages pointing to /blog?
You can even go so far as to add http://www.jkenny.co.uk/blog/feed/ as an XML sitemap to get it searched :)
nggablog
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Posted 1 year ago #
Just try to check your privacy settings...
Settings > Privacy
sometimes we don't know it is set to block search engines.
James Kenny Photography
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Posted 1 year ago #
Just checked the privacy settings, and all is fine there... There are also lots of internal text links to the blog as well as a lot of external links.
I currently have the following sitemaps on webmaster tools:
/blog/post-sitemap.xml
/blog/category-sitemap.xml
/blog/page-sitemap.xml
As well as the normal sitemap in the main website root directory. These have been on webmaster tools for over a month... How do I add a /blog/feed/ xml sitemap?
If you have the post-sitemap.xml stuff, you don't need it.
James Kenny Photography
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Posted 1 year ago #
ahh okay... Well any other ideas?
I remember reading somewhere that google can sometimes hold it against blogs if it appears that there is duplicate content- and that there is something you can do to make sure your blog isn't making the same page more than once or something... Have you heard of any thing like that before?
there is nothing to speculate about - from the header of your blog link:
<title>Northampton Photography Studio - James Kenny Photography - Blog</title>
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 3.1.3" />
<meta name="template" content="Suffusion 3.7.8" />
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />
<meta name="author" content="James Kenny Photography" />
<meta name="copyright" content="Copyright (c) 2011" />
seeing it in the combination with the other meta tags, it could be from the theme or theme options.
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />
Heh. Yes, that WOULD do it.
James Kenny Photography
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Posted 1 year ago #
Thank you!!
Sorry to be a pain, but how do I change that and what should be in it's place?
Sorry to be a pain, but how do I change that and what should be in it's place?
it seems to me that this is something you have to find and change in the (overwhelmingly complex) theme options of the theme.
James Kenny Photography
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Posted 1 year ago #
All sorted now thank you!
Hey James, How did you sort this out?
Please post your own topic.
