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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Page shows on Google Blog search, but not standard Google?This is STILL a problem. I realize it is not directly a WP problem, but the google webmaster forums and other places I’ve visited haven’t helped, so I’m upping this thead to see if anyone around here has any more ideas. Google gives a cached version of my site, but it does not appear in the indes (via a site: search or any other type).
ANY help would be appreciated!!
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Site Review: NotesInTheMargin.comGreat – thanks for the plugin info – I’ll likely institute that change this weekend.
Any other feedback on the format, the layout, or the navigation of the page would be appreciated!
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: College newspaper site powered by WPWow –
Very impressive – very professional in appearance.Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Site Review: NotesInTheMargin.comThanks for the feedback.
Yes – I too am not a fan of the recent articles down in the footer, but I’m not that good with php and modifying themes. It isn’t a widget so it isn’t super-easy to change…I may post on the theme forum how to remove those.
I appreciate you mentioning the spam trapping contact form – I’d love to hear about the plugin.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Re-link or re-upload images after import?I don’t know if this is the final answer, but when I imported from blogger and to my own dowmain name wordpress, I had to re-upload each and every image file. It was a pain in the butt, but it ensured a “clean” installation of wordpress that wasn’t hinging on old links.
Probably not what you wanted to hear.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How do I get rid of ‘Categories’ text?Can you clue the rest of us in? Thanks!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Page shows on Google Blog search, but not standard Google?Still not showing up on google…
Shows up on most other search engines: msn, yahoo, askjeeves, and others…
If anyone has any suggestions I’d love to hear them!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Page shows on Google Blog search, but not standard Google?So my robots.txt file is good.
My sitemap is all set and verified.
My URL has been added (and verified) by google.
My page has been frequently updated.
My page/posts are linked to from other pages.
Several posts have even been “dugg”.
My posts and pages appear on google “blog search”.My page is still not indexed by google.
Augh!
Any input would be appreciated!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Page shows on Google Blog search, but not standard Google?Gotcha…then since I apparently don’t have a robots.txt, I’ll just leave that as-is.
I’m still hoping the sitemap does its magic and allows my page to start showing up on google. I’ll keep checking and if it is still not indexing in a few days, I’ll post again and see what ideas anyone has. It still seems strange that it only shows up on the blog search but not the regular search.
Anyone with any more tips on why google is not indexing any of my pages (it even says that on the webmaster tools…even though the URL has been submitted and verified, along with a valid sitemap) then I’d love to hear the suggestions!
Thanks again for all your help – it is much appreciated!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Page shows on Google Blog search, but not standard Google?Thanks for the tip on the .htaccess file. I changed the permalink structure to a different one (including “archive” in the address…).
It still seems strange that the google crawler last visited my page nearly 2 weeks ago (on Feburary 3rd according to the google webmaster tools site) even though I have posted several times since then and my sitemap has been updated and notified google each time it was changed (according to the sitemap plugin on my wordpress dashboard).
Regarding the robots.txt file, I am not familiar with how to use it and I fear that perhaps that is part of my google issues…I have read about the robots.txt file on the google webmaster tools page, but it was a bit beyond my ability to tackle…anyone know of any good tutorials or even better yet, some sort of plugin to construct/format the proper robots.txt file so that google is happy with it?
Thanks again for the suggestions – I appreciate them more than you know!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Page shows on Google Blog search, but not standard Google?Gotcha – that makes sense about the sitemap.
The thing is, I have updated the page several times since adding the sitemap and the sitemap has been verified, as has the domain, but google still tells me that it has not indexed any pages. When I do a search for my domain name, it cannot find it. It finds some outside links (like some diggs and even THIS THREAD since I’ve put the domain name in here), but not any actual pages from my domain.
I can find several of my posts if I do a BLOG search, but none appear during a regular google search, and I’d like them to. Is there a reason they only appear when doing a google blog search rather than a standard search?
I have tried to analyze the robots.txt file via google’s webmaster tool, but it says the robots.txt file is greater than 5000 characters, so it cannot be analyzed…could there be an issue there?
For the record, the site I’m talking about is here:
http://www.notesinthemargin.comThanks for everyone’s tips!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Page shows on Google Blog search, but not standard Google?I recently added a sitemap (several days ago) which google webmaster tools states was verified, but my site is still not being indexed.
The webmaster tools page says my page has been verified and that Googlebot last visited my page on February 3rd…nearly 2 weeks ago. Shouldn’t it be visited every day?