Or I should say listing, not SERP - my bad. Anyways, the website in question is http://***bla**mmo***.com (remove the *s). So - first off I had done a major blunder on this site - it's a Wordpress blog and I kept it from indexing through Wordpress privacy while it was in development so that an unfinished site wasn't going to end up being indexed. I had also hired a designer to pretty much custom design the site. I launched the site a little over a month ago, and only caught this past Friday that the privacy never got turned off, so basically the site still had Robots.txt disallowing everything to all bots. I'd been wondering why my listings on both Google and Yahoo only had the site URL and no description - yikes! Anyways, after catching this debacle, I fixed it with a new robots.txt, then once both G and Y saw the new robots.txt, I submitted sitemaps to both. As of now, Google still has just the URL in the title and no description, but for what it's worth, they show the total pages in the sitemap but have "Indexed URLs in Sitemap: No data available. Please check back soon" so they may not have done anything yet. Yahoo on the other hand did change the listing...but it was only change to the title and a change I absolutely don't understand: instead of the URL, the title in the listing is now "his homepage". I have no idea where that came from - I don't have those 2 words anywhere on my site even let alone in the title of any of the pages. Does anyone have any idea of either what's causing this or what I can do to get Yahoo to fix this? I know that sometimes this stuff can merely take time and I may just have to wait it out, but I've been hopeful after fixing my mistake that there'd be steps to take to get things right in the SE's. The domain is a 1995 continuous reg so I've been antsy to see if my SEO efforts + the age can get some positions. Any answers or helpful advice anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated.
for me, it seems more like invalid xhtml problem..that is often responsible for poor crawling and indexing http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=h...Inline&group=0&user-agent=W3C_Validator/1.606 get it validated asap...resubmit ur site map by WMT...wait n watch, u ll see desired snippet, best of luck
Ah...figures, looking through it seems most of the invalid XHTML is in my posts (d'oh), in WP plugins, and in code snippets from other sites like the buttons in the footer. I didn't realize not being XHTML strict could affect something like that - thanks a ton for the help and hopefully I'll have no problem making everything valid.
that's not the answer, many sites/ blogs are not validated and are crawled / indexed without issue....Google itself is not.... and asking for rep gets you banned. @OP build high quality links to your blog and the bots will crawl like crazy. You can also try social bookmarking to grab the bots attention.
he had tried everything from sitemaps to noodp/noydir in robot.txt..that is why, i answered u know what....he has got his desired title and description in Google soon after he validated the code http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=www.blammo.com&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq= and i wish him best luck for Yahoo too! this is a known fact...what is Advanced in this?...is there anybody who don't know this? thanx... I wasn't aware