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Free SEO Tool Detects Problems in Blog

I had a problem with one of my experimental black hat blogs.

It was over three weeks old and I had submitted the sitemap to Google using Webmaster Tools, but no pages were appearing in the Google index when I did the site:yourdomainname.com.au command.

Something was wrong.

I then stumbled over a useful SEO Crawler tool at https://robhammond.co/tools/seo-crawler

What is does is check the pages on your site up to 350 maximum – probably enough for most people to manage.

There’s several page metrics it checks, including:

  • Page title
  • HTTP status code
  • Details of redirect chains
  • Meta robots details
  • Followed external links & total links on-page
  • rel=canonical URLs
  • Any automatically detected SEO issues

You can also save the data down to a spreadsheet file for further analysis.

Ah Ha ! … instantly I saw the problem, all the pages were marked noindex,follow which tells Google to follow the links on the pages, but do not put the pages in the search results.

I then logged into the black hat blog and checked the reading settings in the WordPress Dashboard.

Sure enough this WordPress site was set to: Discourage search engines from indexing this site

I then deselected that option, saved the settings and headed back to the SEO Crawler to test again. All fixed.

Within a week all the pages were now in the Google index.

Head on over to https://robhammond.co/tools/seo-crawler and give it a try..

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