Have you filled out the “alt” tags properly. The chances of being indexed are less if the tag is not included. Additionally, the file name for the image should not be “quor7b.jpg” unless it’s a photo of a Quor7b. The file name should also reflect the image (e.g. rose.jpg).
WordPress responds to requests to a robots.txt with dynamic content if such a file does not exist. That’s one way how the settings from wp-admin/options-privacy.php are used. I recommend to create a static robots.txt, just to make sure no plugin is getting in your way. Sample robots.txt User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin Disallow: /wp-admin Disallow: /wp-includes … Read more
The WP in their URLs is not related to WordPress, it’s just a shorthand for WebPage. These types all have the type WebPageElement as parent. In my opinion, using WebPageElement or one of its sub-types (like WPHeader etc.) is pointless for general web pages (there are some special cases and non-HTML contexts where it might … Read more
Check that wp-includes is excluded for index in robots.txt User-agent: * Disallow: /wp-admin/ Disallow: /wp-includes/
There are a couple of plugins that provide this functionality: Google Custom Search Plugin Google Ajax Search
You could try the Google CSE plugin. I’ve tried both the plugins you mentioned above, but I couldn’t get them to work in the way I wanted, so I settled with the Google CSE plugin, and I’m rather happy with how it works. It actually serves the results from your Google Custom Search Engine via … Read more
I’m sure you’ve googled ‘khabarnaak’ – it’s a Pakistani talk show. It’s more likely to be an automated scraper trying to find content rather than an attack. The request does not look like it has been crafted for a WordPress site. Two ways to stop it are: Block the IPs making the request. Add ‘Deny … Read more
It can be extended but not easily as the search searches just in the DB and shortcodes usually do some calculations in order to produce the final HTML. To use the Google Custom Search you just need to get the code and add it to the site as a widget or part of the theme’s … Read more
You should set rel alternate hreflangs on both sites – <link rel=”alternate” href=”http://example.com.au” hreflang=”en-au” />on example.com and <link rel=”alternate” href=”http://example.com” hreflang=”en-us” /> on example.com.au then you sholud set targeting site content to a specific country (geotargeting) in Google search console for – example.com – United States, for abc.com.au you don’t need to do anythong because … Read more
I just ran a test on my hosted dev site. I ran the following: echo ‘<pre>’; global $wpdb; print_r($wpdb); print_r($GLOBALS); echo ‘</pre>’; There was no ‘wp_query’, ‘[q]’, or ‘search’ variables to be found. Note that I was not able to search this through a search engine as it’s not web accessible. Just to give you … Read more