Google indexing Wordpress pages but not posts? What gives?

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This is a new one for me. I've set up a new site with a new theme I've not used before, and now it seems as though Google will only index my pages but not my posts. I have about 5 posts and 5 pages, and it's indexed all of the pages and not a single post, even a page I added last night.

There's nothing in my robots.txt that would exclude posts, although I am using the All In One SEO plugin option to disable the indexing of categories. The header of my posts pages all contain "index,follow" and I have an XML sitemap generated which is including all of the posts. Permalinks are all set up for both pages and posts as website.com/page/ or website.com/post/

One thing I've done differently is that the front page has a short expert of the post to follow. I've seen tons of other people do that, though. Would that somehow make it ignore the posts because of "duplicate content"?

Not sure if this is related, but for the indexed pages in Google, it shows a cached version link but if I click it, it's a broken link. (???)

I tried to Google for this but I can't find the answer at all.
#google #indexing #pages #posts #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author mad.hat
    Duplicate content - Webmaster Tools Help

    That should answer your questions about duplicate content. Whenever possible take information straight from Google, not anyone else.

    If you are doing this:
    site:website.com/post/

    And you get a result then that post page is indexed, if not then it isn't. You can take the rss feed of your posts and then bookmark them. That's always a good way to get indexed.
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    • Profile picture of the author Cataclysm1987
      Have you been building backlinks to each post?

      Try making each post 100 percent unique and building backlinks to it. This will probably get you better results.
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  • Profile picture of the author Matt Ward
    I broke down and went and registered for GWT and submitted a sitemap even though I dislike the idea of waving an affiliate site in front of their faces like that. That's probably an even worse idea.

    Yeah, I've been social bookmarking all of the posts, submitted RSS feeds, etc. I can't understand why it indexed my front page/privacy/contact/about pages but not any of the posts. I figured it had to be some kind of robot meta tag error or something but I don't see anything.
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  • Profile picture of the author taboy74
    Keep trying. I am newbie myself but thanks God I saw my post a few days later after doing a lot of back linking. Most of the comments I made that appeared quickly were online papers because it is crawled by Google robots I guess everyday perhaps it is a beehive of activity from people reacting on news articles. Plus my keyword is not difficult to rank for i guess!
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  • Profile picture of the author MichaelJC
    Be patient, getting google to index a wordpress blog is easy. Although some social bookmarking links will get it done faster, even without any links your blog should be indexed within 7 days.
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  • I agree, build backlinks to each post, and give it 7 days.

    I also ping each post.
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    • Profile picture of the author Cataclysm1987
      Social bookmarking is pretty weak considering it's easy to automate and has mostly nofollow sites.

      I recommend something more aggressive like forum profiles or article submissions. That's what I do anyways.
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  • Profile picture of the author Matt Ward
    Yeah, I've been doing some forum profiles but trying to keep it conservative, like 10-15 per day, tops. On my first site I started doing 100 per day and it went into a wild dance and still hasn't come back in almost 3 weeks. I don't know if 10-15 is super low, but apparently 100 is too much for a new site.

    I installed some logging software and see that the Googlebot read a few pages. Hopefully they're getting indexed now.
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  • Profile picture of the author User-Name
    I never had a problem with too many backlinks to quickly.
    You just have to keep backlinking at the same rate.
    But I do use all kinds of backlinks like xrummer blasts articles, youtube etc.
    If you get trust via edu and .gov backlinks on top off all those other backlinks you will never get sandboxed.
    The 10 000+ xrummer blast takes google a while to find (unless you create mass rssfeeds and ping them or even backlink your backlinks)
    I dont know why people ping each post when wordpress does this automatically (seems like overkill to me).
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