Is This a Reason My Site Is Not Getting Indexed?
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Check out these screenshots below:
1. A screenshot of the "visual" view of the editor on my Wordpress blog. Everything looks fine and normal.
http://img17.imageshack.us/i/visualg.png/
2. Then turn to the HTML view of the article. Notice the horrendous code:
http://img17.imageshack.us/i/html1z.png/
Now this website has got no pages indexed in Google (site:xyz.com) - although Google Webmaster tools say that 15 pages have been indexed - and Yahoo site explorer shows just one page indexed and 114 backlinks. The site has been live for just about a month now. I built it slowly (its less than 20 pages anyway), never built the backlinks in a rushed manner, and I was very curious for a very long time why this site wasn't getting up in Google rankings since my target niche has very low competition.
Then I stumble upon the horrendous code. And I noticed that a lot of my other sites that aren't ranking well or have disappeared from the rankings overnight have this kind of code.
I also noticed that this code is generated when I paste my article directly from Notepad to the "Visual" editor in Wordpress. All sorts of code errors and things going haywire. When I paste in the HTML editor in Wordpress, things appear fine.
So could this horrendous code which essentially makes my sites not rank at all? If so, has anybody else had this issue?
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