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[Anish]

I am having a problem with my SEO for my website. I currently have two websites: Governance360.com and Twigacenter.com – they are both the exact same thing as far as content (the first is my live site, the latter is my dev/test environment). The issue I am having is that my first site does not show up at all in a Google Search where as the second/test site does. I have not done any time of SEO on the second site, but have been using Squirrly for the first site.

I was hoping you might be able to shed some light into why this is happening.

Thank you,
Anish

[Nico]

Hi There,

Thanks for writing in.

We would like to help you however SEO is beyond the scope of our support. It would be best to contact a person who is expert with SEO. I could share some tips for showing your site in Google and that is the only thing I could share to you.

https://www.voog.com/support/guides/seo/getting-your-website-to-appear-in-google-and-bing

BTW, X theme is SEO ready theme and its component is good for google standards.

Hope it helps. Thank you so much for understanding.

[Anish]

Nico,

Thank you for your speedy reply. Do you think there could be an issue with the theme (or a corresponding php file/installation) as to why Google is not indexing the website?

Just to clarify, I’m not looking for any additional SEO help, my issue is with Google not finding the website in a search result – given the X Theme is SEO ready (and given it is working for my dev site).

Thank you!

[Joao]

Hi There

Have you indexed your site in google using google web master tools?

https://www.woorank.com/en/blog/your-site-indexed-in-google

My guess is that if you have two sites that look exactly the same dev and the official google is ignoring the second one, you will be able to index it manually. The best practice would be creating sitemaps and uploading via google websmaster tools.

I recommend you doing a quick research about it is not really complex and there is a few plugins which can help you with generating sitemaps.

http://www.shoutmeloud.com/seo-how-to-index-your-website-within-24-hours-in-search-engine.html

I would also recommend you after you adding your website to Google Analytics so you can control traffic once you do that there is a few nice plugins that will be really useful, my favorite is called Analitify.

Hope that helps,

Joao

[cvanceiac]

If the sites have duplicate content as you say then Google will index the first one you created and treat the second site as a site that is plagiarizing the first site. You should create a Google account for Webmaster tools and check the second site to see if Google has penalized it as they would send a notice of the penalty through Webmaster tools. You may want to consider blocking Googlebot in your robots.txt and do some research on how avoid Google indexing your dev site.

[Anish]

Thank you, Joao and cvanceiac,

I have indexed my site – I will look into the information that both of you provided and check back in if/once I’ve made any progress.

Thank you!

[Nico]

Feel free to let us know how it goes.

Thanks 🙂

[Anish]

Just wanted to give a quick update/ask a follow up question: It looks like I can’t do a Google Fetch because the website I registered was “www.governance360.com” vs “governance360.com”. How would I go about adding the “www” to the domain?

[Rupok]

Hi there,

Thanks for updating. It’s not related to X rather WordPress configuration. Kindly follow this – http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

Hope this helps.

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