WordPress.com Forums » Tag: indexing - Recent Posts http://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/indexing WordPress.com Forums » Tag: indexing - Recent Posts en Sun, 19 May 2013 16:20:12 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 danielberhane on "Questions on transferring to WP.org site" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/questions-on-transferring-to-wporg-site#post-1219807 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:57:57 +0000 danielberhane 1219807@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ One more question:
Can I redirect danielberhane.com to a to subdir - on my new website?
{I meant redirect my current blog to: example.com/daniel }

If the answer is yes, does that change any one your answers to the questions above?

]]> danielberhane on "Questions on transferring to WP.org site" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/questions-on-transferring-to-wporg-site#post-1174508 Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:00:03 +0000 danielberhane 1174508@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thank you very much Raincoaster.

One more question:
Can I redirect danielberhane.com to a subdomain - or, preferably to subdir - on my new website?
{I meant redirect my current blog to: example.com/daniel or daniel.example.com}

If the answer is yes, does that change any one your answers to the questions above?

Thanx again.

]]> raincoaster on "Questions on transferring to WP.org site" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/questions-on-transferring-to-wporg-site#post-1173915 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:09:57 +0000 raincoaster 1173915@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ 1) install the jetpack plugin, then post back here and ask staff to transfer the subscribers for you.

2) Yes, you can, and yes, it absolutely will effect the indexing.

3) no, but search engines are smarter than they used to be and they will soon learn you're not a new blog and rank you appropriately.

4) you would have to do it by manually copy/pasting and making new posts, but it's a better idea to just set it to Private; if search engines see the same content on two different blogs, they'll downgrade both of them as spam.

]]> danielberhane on "Questions on transferring to WP.org site" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/questions-on-transferring-to-wporg-site#post-1173829 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 20:54:19 +0000 danielberhane 1173829@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hello
I intend to transfer of my blog contents to a new WP.org site and purchase redirect.
I have four problems/confusions and I would be grateful if someone would explain it to me:

1/How do I transfer subscribers?

2/Can I make major reorganizing/restructuring of categories and tags after I exported to the new site? Wouldn't that affect the indexing on search engines? (as I am counting on redirect)

3/Is there anyway I can maintain/transfer my page rank?

4/ I would rather not delete the existing blog as I wish to keep it as back up for a while and reactivate it after a few months as a personal archive (once the new site becomes fully functional & gets dedicated admin hired). But how do I keep it updated with contents from the new site?

Thank you very much.

]]> absurdoldbird on "google indexing" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-indexing-1#post-1161732 Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:22:36 +0000 absurdoldbird 1161732@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You're welcome. If the problem is solved, would you please mark this 'resolved'. Thanks.

]]> inafferrabileleslie on "google indexing" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-indexing-1#post-1161643 Sun, 24 Feb 2013 10:40:29 +0000 inafferrabileleslie 1161643@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ This morning the webmaster tools display the old good situation for my blog. Probably it was a temporary Google problem, not a problem with my site or a domain.Anyway, thanks for your help!

]]> absurdoldbird on "google indexing" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-indexing-1#post-1160958 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:09:26 +0000 absurdoldbird 1160958@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You might find something useful in the replies on this thread:

http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/blog-not-indexed-by-google-3-months-after-domain-change?replies=22

In the meantime, I'll flag this for staff to look at. Please be patient as they don't usually work at weekends.

]]> inafferrabileleslie on "google indexing" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-indexing-1#post-1160939 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:49:09 +0000 inafferrabileleslie 1160939@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ But I don't understand why google should reindex the content. I haven't changed the main domain, it's still the same! The new one is just a redirect to the old one, that is still displayed in search results and working fine. I'm very disappointed, I thought buying my own domain might make the administration easier, and it's quite the contrary.

]]> absurdoldbird on "google indexing" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-indexing-1#post-1160857 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 14:35:55 +0000 absurdoldbird 1160857@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ If you only recently bought the domain, just be patient. It can take weeks, sometimes months, for search engine bots to find the content again in order to index it.

]]> inafferrabileleslie on "google indexing" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-indexing-1#post-1160845 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 14:20:47 +0000 inafferrabileleslie 1160845@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ If the problem is not clear, I can post pictures of the Webmaster tools graphics.
The new domain is inafferrabileleslie.com

]]> inafferrabileleslie on "google indexing" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-indexing-1#post-1160780 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 12:01:23 +0000 inafferrabileleslie 1160780@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ My blog was fully indexed by Google. The webmaster tools indicated that all my web pages and about half of my images were indexed.
After I've bought a new domain, the situation has totally changed, though my old wordpress domain is still my preferred one. Now, the webmaster tool show only 10 pages indexed, and none of my images.
I wonder whether I've done something wrong. I cannot check the situation for the new domain, because inserting two validating codes is not possible. Please help me

]]> progressivetimes on "Domain Mapping & Reduced Indexing" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/domain-mapping-reduced-indexing#post-1136578 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:46:10 +0000 progressivetimes 1136578@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Greetings.

So I recently mapped a new domain name to my blog and the mapping worked really well. It seems like a side effect has been that google indexing traffic has gone from +/- 1000 a day to +/- 100.

Is this just a question of google having to become reacquainted with my site? Should I switch webmaster tools from reading the wordpress address to the new domain name?

Curious if anyone on here has encountered a similar issue. Thanks!

-Tyler

]]> mrstringer2012 on "W3C errors" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/w3c-errors#post-1102792 Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:31:25 +0000 mrstringer2012 1102792@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Seven months ago, timethief (if you're around), you provided very helpful info. to a bloke called 'fullmusician' on the matter of indexing, site searching and all that.
I have a little screengrab from the W3C markup validation service that I would like to be able to post (but can't), showing there to be a large number of errors and warnings in my own blog - and they're all within the theme, of course. Meaning that I didn't make 'em.
How is it possible to correct them, please?

]]> markthinksdotnet on "Make a page unsearchable by Google" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/make-a-page-unsearchable-by-google#post-1038246 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:29:11 +0000 markthinksdotnet 1038246@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi all,

I have a page which is not listed on my main blog. I want this page to be accessible by anyone who I give the URL (so still public, not private or password protected).

The thing is I do not want it to be indexed by Google and show up in search results. How can I stop Google from indexing it?

Thanks in advance.

Mark

]]> firefly93 on "Photos, urls and indexing" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/photos-urls-and-indexing#post-1027603 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 03:03:40 +0000 firefly93 1027603@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Are photos from external image hosts i.e. Photobucket indexed in Google or Bing images under the specific image host url or under the WordPress post url in which they appear?

Reason I'm asking is because I would like to have the option to switch photos on a given blog post (while retaining the original post url) with photos from different image hosts, without hopefully losing the Google images listing. The properties of the photos i.e. title, alt-text etc would all remain the same - for example in the case of changing one landscape for another landscape.

Thanks.

]]> auxclass on "Long-term indexing problems" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/long-term-indexing-problems#post-1025304 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 04:29:15 +0000 auxclass 1025304@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @Tess - just wanted to point out to the OP that uncategorized should also index fine - did not want them to run around in a panic on the Tags - yes good Tags and Categories should help the quality of the index and also find related Posts - I am a great believer in making things easy for my visitors to fine related content - so I handcraft related Posts for many of my Posts

A note about my friends blog - it is just an online diary for his friends and family and so he does not care about the search engines

]]> laetans on "Long-term indexing problems" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/long-term-indexing-problems#post-1025301 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 04:11:59 +0000 laetans 1025301@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks again about the XHTML advice. I went and changed the previous posts as suggested and already everything is looking much healthier. I don't know if it was that or if someone with real power did something without me knowing about it, but I'm hopeful that if I give it another few weeks it will sort itself out (finally!). Again, thanks so much!

]]> raincoaster on "Long-term indexing problems" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/long-term-indexing-problems#post-1025296 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 04:06:15 +0000 raincoaster 1025296@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks.

]]> 1tess on "Long-term indexing problems" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/long-term-indexing-problems#post-1025285 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 03:32:33 +0000 1tess 1025285@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ ~~~raincoaster
g'evening

your advice for this situation=excellent…

]]> 1tess on "Long-term indexing problems" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/long-term-indexing-problems#post-1025283 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 03:30:38 +0000 1tess 1025283@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @Mike,
No I wasn't implying that "uncategorized" would keep anyone from being indexed by search engines! But it is a waste of a tag: more specific the better. It also helps when you have 600 + posts to find the ones you want if your tags are specific.

At any rate though, there is something wrong beyond the tagging for laetans. Her site should have been indexed by Google et al by now.

This thread is still modlooked. Maybe it has something to do with the info rain linked to. It is above my paygrade to help here.

]]> raincoaster on "Long-term indexing problems" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/long-term-indexing-problems#post-1025267 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 03:17:10 +0000 raincoaster 1025267@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I don't think the tags are an issue. They're not helping, but they're not hurting. The analysis shows there are some HTML errors in the blog that the blogger did not introduce, and staff will have to fix that.

FYI to make that change auxclass suggested take effect on your pre-existing posts, go to the Posts bulk editor, switch the last 50 or so to Draft, then switch them back to Public. That forces the change to work on those posts.

]]> laetans on "Long-term indexing problems" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/long-term-indexing-problems#post-1025264 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 03:11:34 +0000 laetans 1025264@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Oh my!! Thanks auxclass! Even if that isn't the solution, it should definitely help! I often copy-paste from Word or from Pages on my iPad. I also sometimes use the WordPress app and don't know if there are issues with that as well.

And no worries 1tess, your advice is totally valid, I was just self-conscious about the most recent posts and their tags, haha. I'm definitely going to work on being more specific in future.

]]> auxclass on "Long-term indexing problems" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/long-term-indexing-problems#post-1025259 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 03:05:48 +0000 auxclass 1025259@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Are you pasting in from a Word Processing program? Do you have this checked?

Dashboard >> Settings >> Writing >> WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically

Also I just checked a friends blog here and he has one category "Un-Categorized" and his blog is indexed by Google just fine

]]> 1tess on "Long-term indexing problems" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/long-term-indexing-problems#post-1025257 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 03:03:47 +0000 1tess 1025257@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes, sorry, I didn't mean to be critical or anything. The note about your tags was my opinion only, but you just said Latin grammar" rather than simply "Latin" which is a more specific tag.

At any rate, timethief (another volunteer) has some excellent advice more encompassing increasing traffic than my simple mention of tagging your posts specifically.

The "modlook" tag is still there so for any other problem staff will take a look at your blog.

]]> laetans on "Long-term indexing problems" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/long-term-indexing-problems#post-1025240 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 02:45:11 +0000 laetans 1025240@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks to you both for your quick responses. And yes, I know that using "wordpress" as a tag is useless--and was quite aware when I was tagging the... two...? posts that have it. It was my way of venting semi-ironic poseur frustration at myself and the universe, though of course by looking at what's up there most recently it just makes me look like an idiot. The most-used tags are actually about Latin and writing, and I would think that Latin grammar is unusual enough that if my tags and categories were the issue then search engines would have picked up on those.

]]> 1tess on "Long-term indexing problems" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/long-term-indexing-problems#post-1025234 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 02:33:31 +0000 1tess 1025234@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ And just a quick look at your site, in my opinion: using tags such as "uncategorized" "wordpress" or "blogging" are worthless in terms of getting indexed on any search engine. Especially "uncategorized."

]]> 1tess on "Long-term indexing problems" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/long-term-indexing-problems#post-1025229 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 02:28:13 +0000 1tess 1025229@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I just added "increase traffic" to the tags here on the right side of this topic. Clicking that tag should give you some information useful to your search for more readers.
specifically that link is:
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/increase-traffic

Note that timethief has often posted an excellent article many times, and it has good advice worth paying attention to. Here is one link to her advice:
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-dont-even-exist?replies=2#post-1021972

]]> raincoaster on "Long-term indexing problems" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/long-term-indexing-problems#post-1025216 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 02:03:37 +0000 raincoaster 1025216@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ There is no www in your domain name.

There are lots of reasons a blog might not be indexed.

Here is a bit more information: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Flaetans.com&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0 so you may need staff help. I'll flag this for their attention.

]]> laetans on "Long-term indexing problems" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/long-term-indexing-problems#post-1025205 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 01:52:24 +0000 laetans 1025205@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hello.

I've never successfully had my blog indexed by any search engines (I've been blogging at least once a week for the past six months or so). I've tried:

--using Google's webmaster tools with http://www.laetans.com, laetans.com, and laetans.wordpress.com, waiting a few weeks each time with no success.

--resetting my privacy settings (changing it to private and then back to public) and then waiting a few weeks.

--submitting my blog to ping-o-matic...

Here's the weird thing I noticed: when I enter laetans.com or http://www.laetans.com in ismyblogworking.com, it tells me that my blog is not indexed that that I need to go to wordpress.ORG for support

BUT!!

When I enter laetans.wordpress.com, it tells me I need to go to wordpress.COM.

My blog comes up in searches in other places it's been mentioned (my twitter account, comments I've made, articles I've written) but the blog itself remains absent.

Is that normal? Unrelated? Unsolvable? I really like wordpress, but if I can't get my blog indexed I'm thinking of just moving elsewhere... because why pay for a domain name if no one can find me anyway?

Thanks!

My blog is laetans.com.

]]> goodvillage on "Why does sitemap.xml only submit a fraction of my images?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-does-sitemapxml-only-submit-a-fraction-of-my-images#post-940222 Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:57:31 +0000 goodvillage 940222@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi,

My site has been submitted to and verified with Google webmaster tools for a long while now, but when I look at how many of my images have been both submitted and indexed, it is only a fraction. Nearly 750 images exist, but only 163 have been submitted.

Is there something I can do about this? I can't find a related topic in the forums, but a pointer to a thread or personal experience with this issue would be greatly appreciated !:)!

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