Why isn't Google indexing this site?

[Inevo]

Hello, Moz Community

My client's site hasn't been indexed by Google, although it was launched a couple of months ago.

I've ran down the check points in this article https://moz.com/ugc/8-reasons-why-your-site-might-not-get-indexed without finding a reason why.

Any sharp SEO-eyes out there who can spot this quickly?

The url is: http://www.oldermann.no/

Thank you
INEVO, digital agency

[ThomasHarvey]

I've had a quick look, I've been able to crawl it without any issues, the meta robots and robots.txt doesn't seem to be conflicting with anything at all.

It just doesn't look like it's even been found by Google.

Bing doesn't look to be having any issues indexing it: http://www.bing.com/search?q=site%3Aoldermann.no&go=Submit&qs=n&form=QBLH&pq=site%3Aoldermann.no&sc=0-17&sp=-1&sk=&cvid=B677970FF39F4A62A9B040806CF19EE0

What's the quality of the content on the site like? Have you "fetched as google" in the search console?

[GastonRiera]

I disagree Thomas. You're wrong.

I retract myself.  Thomas has it right.

I've chequed 2 pages and both have the meta robots to nofollow and noindex.

http://www.oldermann.no/
http://www.oldermann.no/kompetanse

Check the image attached

To check that, go to the page source (F12 in chrome) and make a search (clicking in the source code then crtl+F) of 'robots' there you'll find your problem. Just erase that line of code and you'll be just fine.

Best Luck.
GR.

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[ThomasHarvey]

You know what, I don't think I am wrong.

Have a look at this source code from Bing's cache, can you see it there? http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.oldermann.no%2F&d=4558460857156532&mkt=en-GB&setlang=en-GB&w=Zicz6YAWVXgY8u0BPAR9qKRHF8OEn7o5 (Disclaimer I got my friend to check as I'm on a mobile)

This gyazo was just taken for example: https://gyazo.com/93c71c3767c57b74cb9f8b482c23c38

Just ran it through this too, showing the same thing: http://www.seoreviewtools.com/bulk-meta-robots-checker/

oh oh and so you know I think I know why you've found the noindex, you're looking at the  for addthis.

[ThomasHarvey]

A friend just confirmed it, as you're using developer tools, what you're seeing is actually the fully loaded page, including iframes. So the noindex you have found is addthis. https://gyazo.com/abbdecc7e3d6a2d1f4d3acf65a48e65b

To actually check the source code, right click then click view source. That's the code for the specific site instead of loading all of the extra code you've been seeing. I would strongly advise you do like that from now onwards as the way you are doing is incorrect.

[GastonRiera]

Damn it. You're right.

I'll retract my self.

Dispite my mistake, is there a chance that the add this iframe may be harming that site?

[ThomasHarvey]

It shouldn't do as its just an iframe, if that were the case then every site that that used addthis would have a problem (which I know for a fact isn't true as two large sites I work with use it and have no issues).

As far as I'm aware, iframes do not pass on any of their attributes through to a website showing an iframe. The main reason I was curious about your reply was that screaming frog hadn't had any issues, I can understand myself having a small slip up, but a bit of software rarely does.

Back to the original question though, it is curious why there's no indexing by Google, Bing seems to have picked it up, and three days ago atleast. i can't see reason (in my brief look earlier) as to why it shouldn't be. So I came to the conclusion it hadn't been crawled or it had incredibly poor content (which I can't verify as I don't know Norwegian)

[GastonRiera]

Yeap it's really rare. Even more rare that WMT doesn't scream any error.

To check my mistake, i've run a screaming frog too. Sorry.