Another SEO question

devildogz0311

So it looks like google was able to index my website, but I am having difficulties with my robots.txt file that something is being blocked.
When I do a google search for: site:honorshots.com it comes back with my site, but the description is being blocked:
www.honorshots.com/



A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt

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Not quite sure on how I need to fix this issue.

devildogz0311

Every path I try to put into fetch is telling me its being blocked by google....not sure whats going on here

denisegoldberg

If I do a view source on your page I see this:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow, noarchive, nosnippet">

How is site visibility set in your account settings?

from the help page at http://help.smugmug.com/customer/en/portal/articles/93327-will-search-engines-find-my-smugmug-site-:

Check your Site Visibility settings in the Search area of the Discovery tab of your Account Settings. Make sure both "Google Search Visibility" and "SmugMug Search Visibility" are set to "Yes."

--- Denise

devildogz0311

denisegoldberg wrote: »

If I do a view source on your page I see this:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow, noarchive, nosnippet">

How is site visibility set in your account settings?

from the help page at http://help.smugmug.com/customer/en/portal/articles/93327-will-search-engines-find-my-smugmug-site-:


--- Denise

Both are set to yes...

devildogz0311

devildogz0311 wrote: »

Both are set to yes...

Looking at my robots.txt page this is what i'm seeing:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Why is it telling all bots not to crawl my site????? How does this get fixed to allow it to crawl?

devildogz0311

looks like issue has been resolved.....apparently if your using the two week trial, it wont index the page......

leftquark

devildogz0311 wrote: »

looks like issue has been resolved.....apparently if your using the two week trial, it wont index the page......

Correct ... this is to block spam bots from signing up for trial accounts just to get them popular. We'll submit your site to search engines once your trial ends and you subscribe to a smugmug plan!

CHRISRIEFENBERG

Hey leftquark,

is it also likely that when I had my website password protected for a while that this occurs? I have the same problem, but everything is set to yes and Homepage Meta Description is filled out etc.

I assume that my password protection is the reason for my robot.txt was blocked. So I probably just wait for two weeks now? :)

Thanks

Chris

leftquark

Yep - when you set a site password we set the robots.txt to disallow search engines. When you remove the site password, we allow search bots to index again. So things should update on Google once it re-indexes your site.