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    • NetvantageMarketing
      NetvantageMarketing last edited by

      Recently got handed off a .org site for a quasi state agency here in Michigan.  Turns out the developer had the site live for the past six months but left the noindex, nofollow tag on everything so the site was invisible to search engines.

      Obviously we wiped all of those things a couple weeks ago when we got started, added all of our sitemaps to bing/yahoo/google webmaster tools and we've already started getting indexed by yahoo and bing and showing up for branded terms...but NOTHING from Google.  WMT says our pages are all indexed, but we aren't showing up for anything in search and we don't seem to be indexed at all.

      Granted, if this site was brand new and didn't have any links I could see us taking a little time to get found, but this site has very good .gov and .edu links, plus we've built some other solid links to it since we've launched and Google continues to ignore it.  I haven't seen this before, but could Google still be ignoring us from the months of noindex, nofollowing?  If so, any tips on how to get back in teh Google's good graces here?

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      • RyanKent
        RyanKent last edited by

        Would you mind sharing the URL so we can take a look?

        I have several ideas but rather then guess it would be preferable to take a look then offer specifics.

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        • NetvantageMarketing
          NetvantageMarketing @RyanKent last edited by

          sure, miwaterstewardship.org.

          thanks for the help.

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          • RyanKent
            RyanKent @NetvantageMarketing last edited by

            Have you seen your robots.txt file?

            http://www.miwaterstewardship.org/robots.txt

            User-agent: *
            Disallow: /GoogleSiteMap.axd
            Allow: /
            
            
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            • NetvantageMarketing
              NetvantageMarketing @NetvantageMarketing last edited by

              wow...i actually missed that?  i think i need to get more sleep.  that's embarrassing, but thanks for the help.  yeesh...

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