Title: WC3 Errors and Google/ Yahoo “Issues”
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# WC3 Errors and Google/ Yahoo “Issues”

 *  [znichols1981](https://wordpress.org/support/users/znichols1981/)
 * (@znichols1981)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wc3-errors-and-google-yahoo-issues/)
 * Ok, so I feel like I’m in waaay over my head at this point, because…well, as 
   soon as I transferred my blog to a domain, I’ve had nothing but problems, leading
   to attempts at a solution, which seem to lead me to (yes) even **more** problems.
 * My basic issue is this: I know that my site has been validated by Google, but
   for some reason Yahoo doesn’t seem to know it exists. However, I cannot actually
   enter my URL into either one of these search engines, and get my site back as
   a result. Bing knows it’s there—I even come up as the third entry for some of
   my key terms. But I’ve had a sitemap built for a week, on Google, and nothing.
   I also read somewhere that if Google doesn’t at least post your site from a direct
   search of the URL, it means it’s been flagged or removed for some reason.
    So!
   I got into the WC3 site checking tools, and I have, like, 100+ errors, the most
   troubling of which tells me that there is “No Character encoding declared at 
   document level”. I don’t really know what this means, except that it has something
   to do with the meta tag? or the UT-8 encoding? I donno…but I’m starting to get
   extremely frustrated with this whole thing, and wonder if having a URL is supposed
   to be this technically difficult or profound. Can anyone please help me with 
   this? Is there a program I am not yet aware of, that might tidy my errors for
   me? I’m not being lazy, I’ve just met with utter failure so far, trying to do
   it myself…
 * Thanks!

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 *  [saildude](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saildude/)
 * (@saildude)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wc3-errors-and-google-yahoo-issues/#post-1460588)
 * Your site URL please?

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 * [yahoo](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/yahoo/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wc3-errors-and-google-yahoo-issues/#post-1460588)
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