I'm new to wordpress and just started a blog a little over a month ago on improving forum communities. Anyway, the blog can be found here: Chris Guthrie As you can see from an iwebtool search: http://www.iwebtool.com/www.chrisguthrie.net I only have one listing on every search engine. Any ideas behind this? I even followed this guy's tips for SEO on wordpress. I spoke with a buddy and he mentioned that I might have a meta tag in my header.php file that prevents following or indexing, but I couldn't find such a thing. Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Don't worry, there is nothing wrong with your website, it just takes time for the search engines to check your site. Give it a few weeks before you really worry about it. Saying that though, you say your site is only about a month old but your archives go back to March, which is it?
Well, however far back the archives go is how old the site is, which is why it worries me that after that much time I still only have one result in each search engine. I believe my buddy is right in that somewhere in the code I have something that is not enabling link love from my blog or allowing it to get indexed by search engines.
I just viewd the source on your site and I noticed that you have this: <meta name='robots' content='noindex,nofollow' /> Code (markup): That explains why the robots are not crawling your site Since you are wordpress, my guess is that you have the privacy setting as "I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors". If that's the case you should change it, it's found under Options/Privacy.