Google search results for forum
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I set up another site today, http://www.greenglyph.wordpress.com, and I couldn’t find anything in the settings to use to choose to make it searchable on Google. Does this option exist?
When I searched on Google for greenglyph, wordpress i got my site but it had this note on it:
“www.greenglyph.wordpress.com/
A description for this result is not available because of this site’s robots.txt – learn more”What does that mean? Is there a way to overcome this robots.txt issue?
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Another related question — if I bought another domain name, such as http://www.blahblahblah.com, and set that up on here https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url
Would that help promote my site? Or make its contents more searchable?
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I just found the check box to allow google to list the site, on the settings page. So I checked that. Still wondering though if setting up a something.com site to link to my site would improve search results.
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What is that under because I can’t find it and search engines haven’t found my site in months. And both sites are hosted here.
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HI Bwmedia
Go to your site, then click on the upper left corner where it says “my sites”, and you will get the menu on the left side of page. GO to the bottom of that and click on “settings”. Then make sure you are on the “general” tab (should be when you first open settings) and look on the second box, which says “address and visibility”. Under the section for “site visibility” , make sure you check off the first box, which says, “allow search engines to index this site.” The default setting when you first set up a wordpress site, is the box below, which says, “discourage search engines from indexing this site.” So if you have left that checked, search engines will not be able to search your site.Here’s the problem I had, and how I resolved it:
When I first set up the site, I inadvertently left the box checked that said, “discourage search engines from indexing this site”, and then I went to Google and listed my URL on the Google page where you list your URL asking GOogle to index it, here:https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url
So, when Google went to index and “crawl” my site, my site was off limits due to my having left the wrong box checked. I went and changed that, and checked the box saying “allow search engines to index your site” , and then re-submitted the ULR on that Google page, but “the damage was done” in a sense because it would now potentially take Google some time to re-crawl the site.
The way I solved this, was I bought a new domain name, to link to my site, which you can do for about $8 a year on GoDaddy, here: https://www.godaddy.com/
THen, once I bought that new Domain name, I immediately set it up to forward to my WordPress site. Then, I went to that same Google Page here; https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url
ANd submitted this URL Of this new Domain name. (Making sure before doing so that the correct box is checked on your WordPress site to allow search engines to index it!!! ) WIthin literally a few minutes, now Google had found my site and had indexed it, so that if I searched on Google for words or phrases I had on my site, I found them on Google search results.
You can also submit your URL’s to Bing and Yahoo, here:
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Okay, did that but the allow is set, so that’s not the problem. I never had to submit to the search engine before, even after I got a URL for my main site. (The other is a regular WordPress URL.)
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