If you go to example.com/robots.txt, that will show you the directives for search engine bots. You can also check the meta tags on individual pages to see if they’re being blocked. Best option would be Google Search Console’s URL Inspection Tool. If the URL Inspection tool does not explain why the page is not being … Read more
How do I use Google Custom Search to find and show words based on input characters on the same page in WordPress?
How to stop google from indexing spammed internal search results?
Googling “site:http://dougmolineux.com/wp/” seems to show that you blog is getting indexed and quick check doesn’t find any settings prohibitive to indexing set. Other than latter there isn’t really much that can be done, it’s up to Google how it indexes and serves your site in results.
If you have an actual robots.txt file in the root of your site then WP/plugins will be unable to override it. Its related functionality works with “virtual” file, when actual file doesn’t exist. Otherwise it might be plugin conflict, try one related plugin at a time.
There is an extremely high chance that this article is stoking the paranoia. It’s correct but only in the strictest of senses. In practicality it’s just a fancy name for “when you leak things that aren’t meant to be public, people who saw it might tell you if you ask them”, but specifically Google. Google … Read more
The problem had a very simple cause – the WP privacy settings were set to “hide blog” without me noticing, that’s why the website did not get craweled well by Google.
What’s the most efficient solution when augmenting google custom search results with taxonomies?
The easiest way to see if W3 Total Cache is the cause would be to disable the plugin and see if that fixes the issue. But what you’re seeing is an unfiltered post. Usually, the content of the post is passed through the_content filter, and those shortcodes are replaced. Something in your search results is … Read more
If your university webspace supports PHP and MySQL, you should be able to install WordPress at /~(myusername) (or at /~(myusername)/blog, if you don’t want to create your whole site with WP but use it for a blog, only). Typically you don’t need root access for that. But in any case, you should probably ask your … Read more