A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt – learn more
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How to get rid of the line
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I am also having this problem, and it’s very difficult to find information for wordpress.com sites rather than for the wordpress.org powered sites. I’ve submitted my wordpress.com site (askyoureditor.com) to google several times over the course of the last few months, and the meta description has remained, “A description for this result is not available because of this site’s robots.txt.” Can someone please clarify this problem?
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It means you originally made the blog private (which I never do) and the robot.txt stopped search engines from indexing the content. It will take time to have your content indexed.
re: search engine discoverability
You have published very little content and need to start publishing posts not pages frequently ie. at least twice weekly for search engine attention.
It can take weeks for search engines to index your site content. Please read this support doc https://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/ so you know we have no control over search engines positioning or appearance in the SERPs (search engine page results).
To verify blog ownership of a WordPress.com hosted blog with the major search engines you must use this process > http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/
Note: Even if you do not verify the blog the content will be indexed by search engines so don’t feel panicky about this, please.
WordPress.com automatically supplies sitemaps for our blogs to search engines – we do nothing. http://en.support.wordpress.com/sitemaps/#xml-sitemaps-for-search-engines
To gain search engine attention, I recommend that you start publishing posts (not pages) https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ frequently. That’s because it can take weeks for search engines to index content in a new blog and/or to re-index content under a new URL.
For more information on expediting search engine indexing of your site read > http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/omg-i-cant-find-my-blog-on-google
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I do not mind that I’m not showing on search engines. I have submitted my site for indexing usually twice a month to see what happens. SEO takes a long time, which I totally understand. This is not my concern.
What I’m having a problem with is that when my blog actually does show up on searches, the description is this missing this meta description. Instead of saying what my site is about, it says, “A description for this result is not available because of this site’s robots.txt.”
I do not remember setting my blog to private, and I even received a notification from wordpress that actually informed me that my site was available for indexing by search engines. This happened last month or even earlier.
If my blog has accidentally been set to private somehow, how do I rectify this issue so that some sort of meta description will show up rather than the “robots.txt” issue.
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“We’ve made your site public
Your site askyoureditor can now be seen by search engines.” -
Have you read these?
https://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/We wordpress.com bloggers do not have metadata access.
WordPress.com has no control over search engines positioning or appearance in the SERPs (search engine page results). https://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/
re: meta description
What’s important are the keywords in the site title and the tagline:
http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/top-5-site-title-tag-tips/
http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/creating-an-effective-blog-taglineStaff have published two helpful SEO articles.
All About SEO on WordPress.com
https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/
SEO and Your Blog
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/seo-and-your-blog/If you want a Staff response type modlook into the sidebar tags on this thread for Staff help. How do I get a Moderator/Staff reply for my question? https://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-help-in-the-forums/#how-do-i-get-a-moderatorstaff-reply-for-my-question Please subscribe to this thread so you are notified when they respond and be patient while waiting. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.
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Yes, I did read the links about search engine visibility; I’m familiar with SEO best practices but not the WordPress platform, so it’s the interface aspects that are confusing to me. As someone in the content marketing field, it’s clear to me that I don’t have enough posts to have real, measurable success in this area just yet. However, I am starting to get pretty decent traffic. I just wish that as the site does start to show up, it doesn’t turn users off with this problematic message.
While I understand that WordPress has no control over what is displayed, I have never seen this before on any of the other WordPress builds I’ve come across in my travels. That’s why I was curious if I was perhaps doing something wrong.
Thank you so much for posting the link about the privacy settings. I looked into it, and this doesn’t seem to be the problem. If only it was as easy as making this tweak and resubmitting!
I’ll probably resubmit for indexing for the third/fourth time, wait a few more weeks, and see if the description will display properly then. If not, thank you for the information about how to follow up with a moderator! This will be quite useful in the future as I become more familiar with WordPress and its functionality.
Best regards!
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