Did you know that on brand new WordPress blog installs, that the privacy settings by default are set to block search engine spider bots?! This is not a good thing – you want the search engines to be able to spider your site so you get ranking.
It’s very easy to change your privacy settings (image below):
- Log into your WordPress dashboard (/wp-admin)
- Go down to Settings > Privacy
- Tic the first radio button on the Privacy Settings page to make your blog visible to everyone, including search engines
- Click ‘Save Changes’
It’s that easy. Go check your settings right now and make sure you have your blog completely search engine friendly.
To YOUR Success,
Traci Knoppe
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About Traci Knoppe
I’ve been searching what’s problem with my newly developed blogs. Search engine bots seem didn’t visit my blogs since very beginning.
Thanks for the info. Finally my problem is resolved.
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THANK YOU for this post! I could not figure out why my blog was not getting the hits that it use to. I moved from wp.com to self hosting my own blog in September and my google hits have been dwindling to basically nothing. I never knew this and I’m so glad I found this post (in a google search!
) and could fix it! I never would have thought to look there because of course in my WP.com version of the blog it was set to “allow search engines to see my content”. Thanks again!
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You’re welcome Alison. Glad I could help.
Thanks for the information; I’m not very sure why WordPress would make those the default settings.
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I have no clue – but they seriously need to change it. Most folks would never think to check those settings, and they then wonder why their blog isn’t ranking well. This would be one reason why!
This happened to me for 2 weeks. I keep on checking my robots.txt file as well as other stuffs. Until I saw that damn settings and that’s it.
And I can still see some bloggers don’t know it.
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You highlighted a very important point. I think word press should enable access to google bot and yahoo’s slurp. block should be on spam bots and not on authentic organic search engines. interesting article.
Oh my god, this expains why 2 of my sites were doing so badly lol. I’ll get it fixed asap, thanks.