website is not indexing in Google.

I'm less inclined to help him. I know where it's set to noindex. But the fact he's taking on clients and can't even work a simple Yoast plugin is enough for me to leave him to it.

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MikeFriedman

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Icematikx

I'm less inclined to help him. I know where it's set to noindex. But the fact he's taking on clients and can't even work a simple Yoast plugin is enough for me to leave him to it.

In my blurry, barely awake, not enough coffee state, I thought he said he was working on SEO for a friend.

You are right though. He did say client.

Screw this.

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nik0

Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by iquince

Hello Friends
One of my client's website vmv-2.com is not indexing in Google. website is in Bulgarian language and related to Bulgaria country . i am dong SEO for it since 2 months but still not able to make it visible in Google.com or Google.bg (Google Bulgaria).

1. i have created Google webmaster tool account
2. i have inserted a XML sitemap with URLs in root folder in site
3. XML sitemap submitted in GWT
4. created a Google plus profile page and linked to website
5. website showing page rank 0 but none page in Google

but problem is still alive and could not find the problem in it.
thanks in advance for your valuable suggestion.

I suppose you accidentally noindexed your pages and set the homepage as static, had this before myself some time ago, kinda silly mistake. Just go to SEO --> Titles & Metas --> Posts / Pages and uncheck the "noindex/follow" box under pages.

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yukon

Banned 11 years ago

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Code:

<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin v1.6.3 - https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/ -->
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"/>

Seriously, I've seen this happen so many times, people trying to rank pages they've noindexed.

Originally Posted by MikeFriedman

It's that stupid Yoast plugin in you are using. It's an option in there somewhere.

Agreed, those so called SEO plugins can easily cause damage to a site/page. Nothing is worse than noindexing an entire domain. The site might as well not exist (site:vmv-2.com).

Even If OP disabled the plugin Google would index the pages.

Are we getting paid for this?

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Deepanshu Gahlaut

11 years ago

Please check your robot.txt file for /disallow. Remove this.

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yukon Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Deepanshu Gahlaut

Please check your robot.txt file for /disallow. Remove this.

Is anyone home?

OP has a noindex in the HTML.
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iquince

11 years ago

Thanks 2 all buddy. It was a hilarious mistake by site developer he did noindex in wp setting and i was searching it out with close eyes. Now i m out of hell 8

But why u said stupid to yoast?

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KeithPearson 11 years ago

My best advice - sack your Developer.
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SEO-Dave

11 years ago

Originally Posted by iquince

Thanks 2 all buddy. It was a hilarious mistake by site developer he did noindex in wp setting and i was searching it out with close eyes. Now i m out of hell 8

But why u said stupid to yoast?

And that's why you don't let clueless web developers use a plugin like Yoast.

Awful plugin with very little built in documentation warning what noindex can do, can cause so much SEO damage in the wrong hands.

David

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yukon

Banned 11 years ago

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Your half way there, you've removed the noindex tag from the HTML. Index the pages in WMT with Fetch as Google.

Originally Posted by iquince

But why u said stupid to yoast?

Maybe because noindexing a page that's trying to be ranked isn't the smartest thing to be doing. If the Yoast plugin wasn't installed the noindex most likely would have never been added to the webpages HTML.

That plugin makes it too easy for inexperienced people to remove their pages from the SERPs, the same pages they're trying to rank. Doh!

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iquince

11 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

24 hours later...

Your half way there, you've removed the noindex tag from the HTML. Index the pages in WMT with Fetch as Google.

Maybe because noindexing a page that's trying to be ranked isn't the smartest thing to be doing. If the Yoast plugin wasn't installed the noindex most likely would have never been added to the webpages HTML.

That plugin makes it too easy for inexperienced people to remove their pages from the SERPs, the same pages they're trying to rank. Doh!

You are absolutely right here. which SEO plugin you prefer?

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yukon Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by iquince

You are absolutely right here. which SEO plugin you prefer?

I don't use SEO plugins. I hand edit my source code.

Yoast isn't all bad, I learned a few things about ranking video thumbnail images from his own site source code. Google changed a few things, but I had a good run while it lasted. I haven't bothered to try & get the thumbnails back on regular SERPs, they still show on Video organic SERPs.

I would never use an SEO plugin because I like to do things my way, I'm not guessing what a plugin is doing. If I do the work I know what's going on.
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zunnun

11 years ago

If your problem present you can check...
1. Meta tag for no index
2. Check robots.txt for disallow
3. check website structure

You can index fastly...
1. fetch your url in webmaster tool
2. create some backlinks

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salmanqureshi

11 years ago

which plugin are u using for seo?

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ubitestechnologies 11 years ago

Check Robot.Txt Now Google Changed Our Algorithm and If you work spam links and Duplicate content then Google penalised your website. so Google Not indexed your website..
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FreedomBlogger

11 years ago

For the looks of it - you have told the search engines to not index your site.

You need to check that and change it.

You can either use a plugin or do it manually.

I wish you the best of the best!

Cheers!

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