Old site indexed, new site not

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Adrianx

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Jun 13, 2010

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• Nov 10, 2014

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Hi, I've a problem... My site was indexed by Google 2 months ago, but my site was not finished, so Google indexed pages that now I don't have in my site.

Have passed more than 1 month since I finished my site and Google stills has my old site indexed, not my new site. I'm using Yoast SEO also.

How can I do to get my new site indexed. I've XML sitemap but I don't want to use Webmaster Tools to add it because I'll add PBN links.

Any ideas? I've just used a ping service but I'm not sure if it will work or not.

Thanks.

 

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ggguuuttt

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• Nov 10, 2014

• #2

You need to get google to crawl your website.

 

SEO Power

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• Nov 10, 2014

• #3

Make sure you aren't blocking Google in your WordPress settings or robots.txt file. Also, use archive.org to find out if your domain has been used and penalised in the past.

 

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JakeTutorials

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Jun 19, 2014

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• Nov 10, 2014

• #4

See how ur pinging goes and then come back because I might have a solution.

 

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Adrianx

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• Nov 11, 2014
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SEO Power said:

Make sure you aren't blocking Google in your WordPress settings or robots.txt file. Also, use archive.org to find out if your domain has been used and penalised in the past.

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Oh my god! I opened my robots.txt file and says this:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

It was blocking the entire site! I never touched that file! and I have all my settings correct...I'm sure it's some kind of Yoast plugin problem lol. Thanks for your answers.

 

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darkblackcat

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Nov 11, 2014

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• Nov 11, 2014

• #6

do 301 redirect from old pages to new pages., using htaccess.

 

avalon1981

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• Nov 11, 2014

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Adrianx said:

Oh my god! I opened my robots.txt file and says this:
Thanks for your answers.

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For quick indexing after you altered your robots file you may create a html "sitemap", put it somwhere on your site and send a link on it with twitter.
But it is better to leave it as it is for now to make it look natural.

 

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blackcoffee7

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Sep 27, 2014

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• Nov 11, 2014

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Indexing is much faster if you have a sitemap.xml on your website.

 

gazmo

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OP, can you specify what other plugins you used on this site?

I've never had such problems with Yoast, could be it but I'm curious what might have caused this.

 

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Adrianx

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• Nov 12, 2014
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I have a sitemap, I also uploaded it to Webmaster tools (I heard that better not to use GWT when using blackhat tactics but I think it doesn't matter), now I need to wait to see what happens.

gazmo said:

OP, can you specify what other plugins you used on this site?

I've never had such problems with Yoast, could be it but I'm curious what might have caused this.

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Some plugins I have are: Wordfence Security, Udraft Plus, WP Super Cache, BWP Minify... maybe the problem is because of Wordfence or WP Super Cache, who knows...lol One thing I remmember is to change Wordpress to not to index my site (because I was doing it and it was not finished) but when I finished, I deactivated that. Maybe is because that...

Regards.