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    • americanbullion
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      • BlueprintMarketing
        BlueprintMarketing last edited by

        Yes you must first tell me however if you're using any SEO plug-ins?

        If so or if not find the robots.txt file

        A good reference

        http://searchengineland.com/meta-robots-tag-101-blocking-spiders-cached-pages-more-10665

        You can find out what your robots.txt file is currently showing basically entering your domain into the tool it is free.

        http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/seo-tools/robots-txt-generator/

        I would then use http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/

        And edit file you can actually adjust your robots.txt file. Using this plug-in which I think is also the best one out there for word press search engine optimization plug-ins.

        I hope I have been of help,

        Thomas

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        • BlueprintMarketing
          BlueprintMarketing last edited by

          Just to be clear. This only works if you are not using Nginx

          Many managed WordPress hosts like WP engine, web synthesis, Zippykid, all use Nginx and to modify robot.txt files you would have to talk to the host in order to actually fix the problem with this. However if you're using Apache or lightspeed found on Pagely & many other host you are all set.

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            • BlueprintMarketing
              BlueprintMarketing @americanbullion last edited by

              Hi Brian,

              I'm happy I could of been of help to you.

              Using all-in-one SEO plug-in is not at all a bad thing.  However I think you might want to take a look at the Yoast WordPress SEO plug-in http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/  I think it is a better plug in overall however some people like Coke and some like Pepsi you know.

              Is there anything else I can help you with answer question?

              Sincerely,

              Thomas

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