Blog Page Not Indexable - Help

by Jane Newman

Posted: 12 years ago 16 replies

Hi Everyone,

Sorry if I've posted this in the wrong section, wasn't sure where it best suited.

I've a new blog but unfortunately, the 'blog' page is showing up as NOT indexable in data provided by SEO Doctor, an add-in for Firefox.

Here is a link to a .jpg file on an old site, showing the red alert message I get:http://www.want2buyit.com/images/seo-score.jpg

Trouble is, not being a techie, I haven't a clue what I need to do to put the error right.

On the H tags duplicate message - I presume that is because there are a couple of posts which both have H tags on them, displaying on my blog page ... is this okay ?

Can anyone help me out or give me some SIMPLE to follow advice on correcting this problem please ?

Thank you in advance ...

#blog #indexable #page

LuceMk 12 years ago

You can do ping your blog, get trust backlink and get google verification
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Jane Newman

12 years ago

Thank you LuceMK but how does that help correct the error ?

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MichelMeziane

12 years ago

Hi Jane,

It seems that you have a meta tag on you page, that tell the search engine spider to not index the page.

I can help if you provide link to your site.

Regards,
Michel

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Crazzykylex

12 years ago

Originally Posted by MichelMeziane

Hi Jane, It seems that you have a meta tag on you page, that tell the search engine spider to not index the page. I can help if you provide link to your site. Regards,Michel

Didn't know that even META tags say: "Don't index the page" Funny, but informative. Thanks

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topnichewebsites 12 years ago

Remove or modify that meta tag that says noindex (not to index your page)

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hellow0rld 12 years ago

what they said... lol
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Jane Newman 12 years ago

Thank you every one - I'm still having problems as I've clicked on my /blog page and selected to view the page source code but I can't find any reference to 'noindex'.

Michel - I've PM'd you, hope that is okay.

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- MichelMeziane 12 years ago
  
  Hi Jane,
  
  I just sent you a PM.
  
  For fellow warriors who may run on the same problem, it's related to the usage of the canonical attribute on home and blog page, check this link for more information. Better to have an explanation from google
  
  regards,
  Michel
  
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  Jane Newman 12 years ago
  
  Hi Michel,
  
  Thanks for looking into it Michel ...
  
  I'm doing my best to try and get my head around the canonical bit but I'm struggling understanding it - I'll have to read over it a few times I think.
  
  In the meantime, I've checked out the settings in Platinum SEO WP plugin and I've got the canonical URL's TICKED - does this mean I should untick it and that will solve the problem?
  
  I followed a tutorial which said to TICK it which is why it is ticked off.
  
  Cheers
  
  Thanks
  
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Jane Newman 12 years ago

Arghhh, voila

I've UNTICKED the canonical URL's box, updated the plugin and refreshed my browser and it has sorted that error out.

It has actually taken the line of code from the /blog page source code - is that correct?

I'm still a bit confused by this tag - should it only be seen in the page set up as the static page for the main domain ... should it only be seen in the source of that page?

Based on what you viewed at my blog Michel, do you advise to have canonical URL's ticked or unticked?

The other thing is, whilst performing a keyword search in Google, my home page wasn't showing up but my /blog page was - is that because of this canonical URL which was in my /blog page source code?

Jane
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MichelMeziane 12 years ago

Hi,

For me you don't need it for your site, since the blog and home don't have similar content, but if you have similar content (like same posts) on both of them maybe you should activate it, but only one page will be dominant on indexing.

Also found this article in case you need more details on the subject.

Michel
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Jane Newman 12 years ago

Thank you again Michel ...

One further thing if you don't mind, I've been checking over a few other blogs I have too, some have got Platinum SEO installed and they are also showing up the little red error on the /blog page but they are similar content - with that in mind, would you keep the canonical URL's TICKED and ignore the error?

As for a few newer blogs I've got, I have WP by Yoast on them and it shows the canonical tag on my static home page and SEO Doctor results are fine, it shows a canonical tag on my /blog pages with /blog at the end and yet they are not being flagged up as red errors in SEO Doctor.

Do you have any ideas on what that should be?

Thanks
Jane
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michael0109 12 years ago

Hi Jane Newman!

Can you tell me how long you begin blog ?

If before 5 day, you don't worry.

This is step by step :

1. Register and active Webmaster tool
2. If you using wordpress, please install google xml sitemap plugin and submit sitemap
3. Add analytics code to website.

Good luck to you!

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Jane Newman 12 years ago

Hi Michel,

The url I PM'd you about is an old domain which had a static site on but about 7 days ago, I stripped all the old stuff of it and installed a Wordpress blog.

I do have a number of other blogs and they are in excess of 12 months old now.

As for plugins for SEO purposes, I've Platinum SEO on some and Wordpress by Yoast on others - mainly so I can try and compare how different plugin installs help a blogs presence.

Cheers
Jane
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MichelMeziane 12 years ago

Hi,

regarding which SEO plugin to use, i think it's related to your, for me I always try to use SEO ready theme like Thesis or my own private theme (better server in that way).

If you have different page but with same content, using canonical attribute on one page is mandatory in order to have indexed and not to rise duplicate content flag.

If you have canonical activated on more than one page, check on Google which one is indexed, and stick with it, that was Big G preference :-).

From a personal experience when I was doing seo actively, I was getting little results especially on crowded niches, and when I decided to not focus on SEO, Big G started to love my sites :-).

At the end it will depend on your niche and competition.

Cheers,
Michel
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- Jane Newman 12 years ago
  
  Hi Michel,
  
  It's funny what you've said about dropping your SEO work slightly and then getting better results on Google as sites I've put together and written the content for, as if I were writing a book or a brochure are listed way better than sets of new blogs I've created which I've then analysed from an SEO perspective.
  
  Other than adding in the obvious like a title, description, keywords, H tags etc ... the sites I've not analysed for keyword density and all that stuff are way better ranked.
  
  Sites that I've done all the white hat SEO stuff on don't seem to achieve the higher listings.
  
  All the content, on both types of sites is written in a natural way so I tend to think too much SEO can have a negative effect.
  
  Thanks for all your help Michel
  
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