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site not being indexed/crawled

by jonrpatrick
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Hey guys,
I could use some expert advice - but just 2 cents worth...
I set up this blog last week:
Bed Bugs B-Gone
obviously using a subdomain from my hosting provider.
I've been building some links, modifying content, created sitemaps and let google know they're there.
I've been driving traffic there, but as of this morning it has not been crawled by google... nada.
Am I missing something obvious about why it wouldn't be? My understanding is that using a subdomain like this is NOT a negative, so I feel I can't see the forest for the trees here...

Thank in advance everyone.
Jon
#indexed or crawled #site
  • Profile picture of the author mesimoniv
    Try removing this from your pages:

    Code:
    <meta name="robots" content="noodp,noydir" />
    It is likely a setting in one of your SEO plugins.
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    • Profile picture of the author jonrpatrick
      woah!
      Yeah, I have an seo plugin, but I didn't know that was the default!
      Of course, I don't know *exactly* what that means, but I understand the gist of it.
      Thankyouverymuchmucho.

      Jon
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      • Profile picture of the author jonrpatrick
        I think I changed it in my SEO plugin, and I don't see this line any more in my source... but I still don't appear to be being indexed?
        Any advice from the Warriors?
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        • Profile picture of the author kazlas
          Another thing, some people say that if google indexes your site first time with affiliate links in it, google might perceive your site as low value which would harm your rankings.
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          • Profile picture of the author blazr63
            Sign up with Google Webmaster Tools. Create an xml sitemap and submit it with your domain. Make sure to create a robot.txt file for your root directory. Your site will be crawled.
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    • Profile picture of the author DannyP_uk
      Originally Posted by mesimoniv View Post

      Try removing this from your pages:

      Code:
      <meta name="robots" content="noodp,noydir" />
      It is likely a setting in one of your SEO plugins.
      That isn't stopping you getting indexed, that is actually a good thing to have. It stops Google from replacing your specified meta description with a snippet from the big directories such as Yahoo and Best of the web.
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