Google believes in Ghost?

Why is this site not indexing properly?
It has thousands of links and using wordpress should be well structured. Its not banned as there is an index page.
ghost

 

http://ghostblog.net/robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

 

lol - disallowed the root? wow

 

lol, that will do it every time.

It looks like a pretty new site. After the robots txt has been fixed, It may take a while before Google starts taking it seriously (it only has two posts). Not sure how unique the first post is. When sites are young, its best to try and stay on Google's good side, otherwise ranking may prove difficult.

Cheers
James

 

I can assure you it is uniquely written ^^
Thanks everyone, rep added

 

Excellent reply green added. This is a proven that some small mistake could make a biggest problem somehow.

 

If the robots.txt file is removed it will reindex back normally?

 

Don't remove it , fix it and upload again

 

might be the robot.txt problem. Fixing it and again waiting for sometime will solve this problem.

 

I just placed an empty robots, would that work?

 

I don't think it will work... Will an empty php file will work without code ?

 

You need to put up a robots.txt file and upload it with

It will help surely, but it is not a big issue. If you are not getting indexed properly, there must be other reasons as well. I hope you are not using Duplicate content. Also make your wp blog visible and search-able to search engines can be found in settings if it is not turned on.

 

On a similar note, what happens if I don't have a robots file?

S

 

Thats set by wordpress admin dashboard that not to allow search-engine spiders but allow normal visitors

 

It doesn't really make much difference these days!

 

Wow, a few days after I upload the blank robots.txt Google completely removed my site. Have to edit that now and put instead

User-agent: *
Disallow:

Lets see what happens

 

There is a difference between blank robots.txt and no robots.txt at all

 

LOL of all LOLs