Don't ever make this costly blunder!
Lots of us use "noindex, nofollow" tags on test pages, private pages or for any other number of good reasons...
DON"T EVER forget to remove the tags when you upload a public page, especially your sales/index page!
I forgot to so this and only noticed a week later that both my traffic and sales had rapidly dropped. As you would expect, the search engines had delisted my page with the result that my main sales tool could not be found in a search. Unfortunately for me, my business depends heavily on searches.
I only wish the search engines were equally efficient about relisting pages!
I corrected the problem almost a week ago. I've done massive deep linking of the whole site and submitted a new sitemap and still nothing. Googlebot crawled my site on Wednesday but I guess there's processing time too. Talk about frustrating!
Of course this was an idiotic thing to do but these things happen. In the webmaster forum I see that it's happened to many others, which is why I'm publishing this warning.
Why can't there be a warning device attached to this action, something like they use when deleting files, for example: "Do you really want to prevent this page being indexed?"
Does anybody know of anything that will help to get my page back?
By the way, my site has not been de-indexed as other pages are still in the search results.
DON"T EVER forget to remove the tags when you upload a public page, especially your sales/index page!
I forgot to so this and only noticed a week later that both my traffic and sales had rapidly dropped. As you would expect, the search engines had delisted my page with the result that my main sales tool could not be found in a search. Unfortunately for me, my business depends heavily on searches.
I only wish the search engines were equally efficient about relisting pages!
I corrected the problem almost a week ago. I've done massive deep linking of the whole site and submitted a new sitemap and still nothing. Googlebot crawled my site on Wednesday but I guess there's processing time too. Talk about frustrating!
Of course this was an idiotic thing to do but these things happen. In the webmaster forum I see that it's happened to many others, which is why I'm publishing this warning.
Why can't there be a warning device attached to this action, something like they use when deleting files, for example: "Do you really want to prevent this page being indexed?"
Does anybody know of anything that will help to get my page back?
By the way, my site has not been de-indexed as other pages are still in the search results.
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