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Wordpress theme confilicting with googlebot

by ibuywireless
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So im new to web design ive created a website(in my sig) through wordpress I got everything set up and submitted my site to google, and recieved a response that google cant crawl my site.

I am new to wordpress and im not sure how to edit the homepage as theres not a page for it, ive tryed to make a static page but it doesnt change anything

can anyone help
#confilicting #googlebot #theme #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author dburk
    Hi ibuywireless,

    In Wordpress admin panel go to Settings -> Reading and uncheck the box next to "Discourage search engines from indexing this site".
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    Test robot.txt in webmaster then implement on website or try to change theme that you installed on wordpress may be any code prohibiting Google to crawl .
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    • Profile picture of the author amanda0731
      I have had this problem before and I accessed the developer's website where other people claimed they were having a similar problem. Have you contacted the developer of the theme yet? If it's a rather new theme (and especially if you paid for it) then you could be the first person alerting them to the problem and hopefully would prompt a solution if there is not already.
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      • Profile picture of the author ibuywireless
        Originally Posted by amanda0731 View Post

        I have had this problem before and I accessed the developer's website where other people claimed they were having a similar problem. Have you contacted the developer of the theme yet? If it's a rather new theme (and especially if you paid for it) then you could be the first person alerting them to the problem and hopefully would prompt a solution if there is not already.
        it was a free theme, I liked it when i got it, but it has SOOOOO many limitations and I dont wanna go back through everything with a new theme. Im considering staying away from themes in the future all together
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        • Profile picture of the author amanda0731
          Originally Posted by ibuywireless View Post

          Im considering staying away from themes in the future all together
          Meh, it's something you should be able to research beforehand, just by reading reviews about the theme. I would take the time to switch to one that has great reviews and search for googlebot issues before you decide to use it. Is the googlebot functionality important to you? Just seemed to me that it is probably important since you posted trying to fix it. Take into account the time you spend trying to get the googlebot to work, you could have rebuilt your site with 5 new themes...
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          • Profile picture of the author ibuywireless
            Originally Posted by amanda0731 View Post

            Meh, it's something you should be able to research beforehand, just by reading reviews about the theme. I would take the time to switch to one that has great reviews and search for googlebot issues before you decide to use it. Is the googlebot functionality important to you? Just seemed to me that it is probably important since you posted trying to fix it. Take into account the time you spend trying to get the googlebot to work, you could have rebuilt your site with 5 new themes...
            Defintely, I used to build websites back in the html days 7+ years ago, nothing special but i can put something together. So this was my first go at wordpress. I need to get on youtube and watch tutorials all day
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