There’s lots of info about it online. Try a Google search for: PageRank
Thanks. I’ll check it out.
Will removing the 404’s help get the other pages indexed? Or does that have nothing to do with it?
We’re all at the mercy of Google and their mysterious algorithm(s). You can remove URLs in your Google account, and make sure your sitemap is being generated correctly – without throwing errors – but beyond that, I don’t know.
Will removing the 404’s help get the other pages indexed? Or does that have nothing to do with it?
I don’t know, but that’s what I did when I moved my blog from Blogger and I think that it helped.
This is still really bugging me.
Every new post that gets added (and they do get added every single day) goes straight into the sitemap file and google indexes it (usually within 24hrs) and it can then be found on Google.
But, all this past content I mentioned at the start of this post is not getting indexed. Is there a bug with WordPress when you block search engines initally, upload content, then allow search engines to index the site?
Should I reinstall WordPress and upload everything again -> this time allowing the search engines to find the site from the start?
HELP HELP HELP!!!
Have you looked at the source of one of the unindexed pages to see if there is – for some reason – a no index meta tag? Is the metadata the same as a new page, one that gets indexed right away?
Hi, I’ve checked both an indexed page and an unindexed page……..they look exactly the same.
I’m wondering if WP is blocking the first few 1,000 articles that were uploaded when the site was set to “hide” from search engines.
It’s not set to “show” to search engines but we’re missing articles.
Could this be true?
Help needed urgently!!!!
Are these 1000+ articles totally unique content found absolutely nowhere else on the web? Also, I’ve read that Google does not like lots of pages published (or made available for indexing) all at once from younger, less trusted sites because it can be a signal of spam.
Good point. You might be at the mercy of a mysterious part of the Google algorithm that ranks sites by longevity and uniqueness of content. It’s ancedotal, but one of my sites has slowly gained good page rank over the last few years, and I’ve done nothing except to continue to post my own unique content and articles.
