Title: Search engine indexing
Last modified: December 10, 2016

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# Search engine indexing

 *  [theyuv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theyuv/)
 * (@theyuv)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-engine-indexing/)
 * I have a subdirectory installation of wordpress on my site.
 * I accidently deployed the wordpress site with the “discourage search engines 
   from indexing” option set.
 * I have since unchecked this option but for several weeks now my blog is not being
   indexed (the rest of my site (which is non-wordpress) is indexed fine).
 * If I use the Google Search Console and manually tell Google to index my blog,
   then it does, but after a day or two the indexing is removed.
 * I do not have a robots.txt. There are no “nofollow”/”noindex” tags on the blog
   pages.
    There is one error which comes up on the search console about `hentry`
   which I will fix, but I don’t think this is the reason for my blog not being 
   indexed.
 * Does anyone know why the blog is not being indexed? (I don’t think I just need
   to wait more because like I said, Google indexed the pages, but then removed 
   them).
 * Thanks.

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 *  [Davood Denavi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarywc/)
 * (@binarywc)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-engine-indexing/#post-8538366)
 * Are you using any SEO plugins such as Yoast? If you are you should be able to
   change the nofollow/noindex settings on the blog posts in the edit screen.
 * Hope this help.
 *  Thread Starter [theyuv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theyuv/)
 * (@theyuv)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-engine-indexing/#post-8538385)
 * Not using an SEO plugin.
    It’s strange, because new content on my non-wp site
   is indexed…only the wp site isn’t indexed.
 *  [Davood Denavi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarywc/)
 * (@binarywc)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-engine-indexing/#post-8538864)
 * Are you sure you checked the both the WordPress directory and the top level directory
   for robots.txt files?
 *  Thread Starter [theyuv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theyuv/)
 * (@theyuv)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-engine-indexing/#post-8539583)
 * I just double checked again now.
    There’s also a robots.txt check on Google Search
   Console which tells me there’s no robotx.txt…
 * Any other ideas?
 *  [Davood Denavi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarywc/)
 * (@binarywc)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-engine-indexing/#post-8539611)
 * Maybe, check your themes header.php file for noindex or nofollow code. Sometimes
   themes will put code it into the header for testing purposes and forget to remove
   it before releasing the final version.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Davood Denavi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarywc/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-engine-indexing/#post-8539611)
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