Google only picking up Home page and tags page.

  • reabo

    (@reabo)


    9 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,

    I have recently built my website again but this time using wordpress and making a theme myself. I have just realized Google search results only shows categories & tags instead my individual posts.

    I tried the search term ‘little shop of horrors mattrossray’ it doesn’t bring up the article but the tags page. I’ve tried it with all the other blog posts too. I’m wondering if I’ve missed something out when building the theme?

    Any help would be much appreciated.

    site in question is http://www.mattrossray.co.uk/blog/ (ignore the cosmetics i’m still working on it)

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  • Patrick Garman

    (@patrickgarman)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    Hi reabo,

    Have you tried using a Google Sitemap plugin and submitting your sitemap to Google? This may help your site get crawled and index more efficiently.

    Thread Starter reabo

    (@reabo)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    Hi Patrick,

    I have never submitted my sites in the past to Google, normally leave it to get picked up naturally. However due to my problem, i did it for this site. It doesn’t seem to of made a difference. I’ll look into a sitemap plugin now though and do it again.

    I was thinking, i may of left some much needed code out of my website or maybe put something in which is messing it up.

    Thanks a lot for your comment btw 🙂

    Patrick Garman

    (@patrickgarman)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    Google does not need any specific “code” or anything to find content, Google finds everything! However whether it actually indexes your content is a completely different discussion. There are too many factors at play to really find the reason or a solution just by looking at the site. I’d suggest if the sitemap doesn’t help your site get picked up then maybe use Google Webmaster Tools which is a tool provided free by Google for webmasters like yourself trying to see whats going on with your site being indexed.

    Thread Starter reabo

    (@reabo)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    Patick again thank you for your response.

    I understand what you are saying. I shall sign up for Google Webmaster Tools. I’ve heard a lot about it. Its a good step in the right direction.

    Thread Starter reabo

    (@reabo)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    Hi again people. Left it 5 months and I’m still in the same boat. Done everything as suggested above with not progress.

    Does anyone else have any thoughts?

    Kor

    (@korchung)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    Hello,

    I suggest that you install a SEO WordPress plugin and start improving your website in terms of serp.

    Regards
    KC

    Thread Starter reabo

    (@reabo)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    Hi KC Chai,

    Thank you for your reply. Can you suggest one particular? I rather use a favored plugin rather than one I like the look of in the plugin section.

    Kor

    (@korchung)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    Hello,

    I believe I’m not allowed to mention it here. However, its a very popular plugin and you should be able to find it in the popular plugin section or type SEO as a keyword.

    Regards

    KC

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