Please help, Google Search is coming up with WordPress ad for my site
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Hi,
It’d be wonderful to please get some help.
I was wondering how I fix my google search result, for some reason it is displaying a wordpress ad (despite me having purchased the web domain. It is coming up with this below when you search http://www.runawaywild.com:
Post navigation
runawaywild.com/
Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. The Mixfolio Theme. Follow. Follow “”. Get every new post delivered to your Inbox. Powered by WordPress. com.
You’ve visited this page 3 times. Last visit: 3/12/14I have registered it with Web Master Tools also.
Thank you so much :)
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As long as you have no text on your front page, that’s what you get. Google indexes text.
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Hi Raincoaster,
Thanks for your reply.
I have my Welcome Message: From adventures abroad and an exploring heart, a collection of photos to wander through.
Is there anything I can do so that shows up in the search?
Also why is the title “Post navigation” on Google instead of my website name?
Thanks again
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You could try adding some captions and Alt Text to your images. I could not find any text for search engines to grab onto – also put some text in the Posts – explain what the post is about, where and such – put some text for search engines to see
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That’s not an ad. it’s your footer; it is the only real text on the site. Your tagline is not in the Site Content; that’s what’s in posts and pages, and that’s what google reads.
You can force your theme to show an excerpt of text on the front page, assuming your posts have text. You can switch themes to one that automatically shows text on the front page if there’s text.
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@RC – I can’t find ANY text other than just the one line on the front page – not much for search engines to index
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Exactly. There needs to be caption, alt text, description, title, on all images otherwise Google will not see them at all.
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Hey in each of the posts, when you click into them there’s a one liner.
The theme is like a portfolio, and I’ve decided to keep it mostly as an image blog.
In terms of each image they have been titled just not with captions, alt text, or descriptions – so will have to get onto that I guess.
Is there any way I can change the footer?
Most importantly is just the title, on google it should be Runaway Wild (the name of the site & the domain) instead it comes up as Post navigation
Thanks guys
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The following posts, as well as an about page, and “post navigation” (your front page, which provides image links to the posts) are indexed on the first two pages of Google search results for the search keyword http://runawaywild.com/:
Post navigation
about
Posts:
Arashiyama, Kyoto. .
Japanese English
Lantern Painting
Tokyo Designers Week
Greenery
Temples, Castles and Shrines
Hakuhodo, A Brush Dream
Feasts
Naoshima
SentoThe Google search for your URL in quotes gives even more post results, 19 total indexed posts and pages.
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Your title tab displays the website URL, which suggests that you haven’t given the website a title. The first Google result “Post navigation” may be due to this lack.
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Hey Musicdoc1,
Is their a way to get rid of that Post Navigation title, I just want my site title? Or maybe that’s not possible because it’s run through WordPress or because it’s a URL search :/
The search term Runaway Wild doesn’t come up with anything which is annoying considering it’s the domain. Yesterday I registered the URL with google, and used their web master tools but it still isn’t searchable. Not sure how long that takes to happen :(
I’m not after drawing crazy traffic to it, but I just want people to be able to find it if I tell them about it.
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If you add all those things auxclass and I listed to your images, Google will pull that information. The more text you offer Google the more accurately it indexes your site.
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musicdoc1,
when I search yours “songbook1” it’s number one on list on google. Please let us know if you have any tips of how you made that happen.Thanks so much for everyones help, this is new territory for me eep!
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Have you given the site a title at Settings > General > Site Title? It looks like you’ve left it blank. The large title in the header image isn’t enough.
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musicdoc1,
when I search yours “songbook1” it’s number one on list on google. Please let us know if you have any tips of how you made that happen.Hard work. Patience.
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Thanks Raincoaster, looks like you know what you’re doing, your site has heaps on it!
Going to have to spend a bunch of time filling all of those details in, thanks for the advice.
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Musicdoc 1, I did have the title though removed it because I thought it looked silly, but yeah definitely to change it now. Thank you :)
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I have some Posts with several pictures, they search well against larger older sites, I think the reason is that I was very careful to get the picture title, file name, alt text and captions working with what the picture content is.
Search engines then see that all the pictures are related to a specific place, event or item
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Alt text is hidden – can’t remember if it shows up if the caption is left blank – the Alt Text is for search engines
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