Googlebot is blocked from http://www.ladangharta.com/
I have recently registered a site LadangHarta.com and after 3 days of putting some content, it is still not indexed yet. In my previous experience, all my sites are indexed almost immediately after the first post. This is particularly embarrassing as the main highlight of this site is for SEO training.
Checked into Google webmaster tools / Google sitemaps and see this message:
“Googlebot is blocked from http://www.ladangharta.com/”
It also says:
Text of http://www.ladangharta.com/robots.txt
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Sitemap: http://www.ladangharta.com/sitemap.xml.gz
So I thought simple fix will be to open robots.txt and change the line
Disallow: /
to
Disallow:
But the problem is, there is no robots.txt in my public_html directory.
My next guess is the XML Sitemap plugin.
The nearest thing about robots.txt from the plugin settings is this
Nothing about “block search engines” or something similar.
Finally found it in Settings -> Privacy
Make sure to choose “I would like my blog to be visible to everyone, including search engines (like Google, Sphere, Technorati) and archivers”
Not sure why the installation has such setting. This can be bad for wordpress’ unofficial status of “most seo friendly blog engine”. Another wordpress blog that I installed recently also has same setting. Both are installed from Fantastico, WordPress version 2.8.4 which is then upgraded via one-click-upgrade.
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