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My wordpress website is not listed in google

That is my wesbite www.shapestudios.de

I have this problem since more than a year already, i tried every possible thing. Content SEO optimized, media SEO optimized, XML sitemaps submitted to Google webmaster tools. i also use bing webmaster tools, alexa and optimized the url using yoast. meta date is perfect! it just never shows up.

and if i search in google for (link:shapestudios.de) the only thing that shows up is a stupid readme text from some plug in but not the actual website. i have a feeling that it's related to php somehow since the only thing that shows up is text file. but what about the images?

i'm using a server in Germany by 1&1 .. i have some feeling that the server is blocking google bots from crawling the website. but i can't really tell, as i found no option in the server dashboard to allow or block the bots.

Can someone please help me!!! :)

Solution

  • The reason it is not being indexed is because of this in head

    <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">

    That will say not to index the website, remove it and it should start to get indexed/crawled....I think you might need to look into the basics of SEO.

    EDIT: To remove that line either:

    • Open the header.php file and remove it.

    If that line is not on that page then:

    • Go to SEttings -> Reading, on that page find the "Site Visibility" section (should be 4th bolded heading make sure the "Allow search engines to index this site" option is ticked.