Great news Dubbya. I am confident that I can quickly get my website re-indexed. You've motivated me to edit and re-do the keywords of each post. After that, I'm going to figure out the sitemap problem.
I don't know what could've gone wrong with the sitemap XML because I've never had that problem before. It was working fine and I didn't edit or change anything... Then all of a sudden, "Bye Bye Google search..."
That's why I'm confused. I don't know where to start fixing the sitemap problem or if I would be better off just creating a new one... My plugin: Google Sitemap XML (for wordpress) is supposed to create a sitemap for me! It has worked for my other blogs fine, but why the errors with "yung drew dot com"?
Should I use GsiteCrawler and THEN deactivate the XML plugin on my Wordpress dashboard? And what happens if I already have a sitemap submitted: do I need to delete it or can I just submit a new one that will overwrite the old one?
I
highly doubt that my site got sandboxed. I think it is either a penalty or something wrong with my sitemap...
Oh yeah, how do I get a 'proper' "robots.txt" file in place. I never had to do this with any other websites... Why this one?!?!
Thanks for your recommendations.
I'll hopefully have this fixed by tomorrow, then remove my site from Google, and finally re-submit my site to Google. If it's reindexed properly within 1 month, I'll be extremely happy
Thanks again Dubbya
Sincerely,
Yung Drew
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Originally Posted by Dubbya
It CAN work, but you need to fix the problem that caused it to be deindexed in the first place.
Simply removing your site then resubmitting it won't fix anything. Unless you fix the problem, you'll be right back at where you started.
When my site was still just a few weeks old, I upgraded my cart which changed all the URL's. Because I had hundreds of 404's, I thought the easiest way to fix it would be to remove the entire site then resubmit it. In the end, I had to wait a month and a half to finally get back into the SERPs.
The first course of action is to determine why your site isn't showing up. If it's just because it's so new and it's been sandboxed, all you can do is wait and use the time to make SEO improvements.
The first thing you should probably do would be to check your Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools to see if there are any problems and fix them.
For example, there appears to be a major issue with your sitemap file.
In addition, you don't have a proper robots.txt file in place.
The sitemap could be the root of your problem, so that's a good place to start.
Use GsiteCrawler to generate your xml sitemap.
Google Sitemap Generator for Windows :: GSiteCrawler |