Is Google blocking my blog?

This is you right?

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awww.jkenny.co.uk

https://www.google.com/search?q=James+Kenny+Photography

If you really want to know what Google is doing, register with Google Webmaster Tools.

Hi, yes that is me- I know that the rest of my site shows up fine- but not the blog… Searching for site:www.jkenny.co.uk shows up every part of my sire other than the /blog/ directory. This is the problem.

I have a webmaster tools account and have uploaded sitemaps for my site and blog a long time ago.

Is google showing any errors?

As in crawl errors? No, well none to do with the blog anyways… Is there somewhere else I would see any errors?

Yes, the crawl errors for one ??

But also, do you have any internal pages pointing to /blog?

You can even go so far as to add https://www.jkenny.co.uk/blog/feed/ as an XML sitemap to get it searched ??

Just try to check your privacy settings…
Settings > Privacy

sometimes we don’t know it is set to block search engines.

Just checked the privacy settings, and all is fine there… There are also lots of internal text links to the blog as well as a lot of external links.

I currently have the following sitemaps on webmaster tools:

/blog/post-sitemap.xml
/blog/category-sitemap.xml
/blog/page-sitemap.xml

As well as the normal sitemap in the main website root directory. These have been on webmaster tools for over a month… How do I add a /blog/feed/ xml sitemap?

If you have the post-sitemap.xml stuff, you don’t need it.

ahh okay… Well any other ideas?

I remember reading somewhere that google can sometimes hold it against blogs if it appears that there is duplicate content- and that there is something you can do to make sure your blog isn’t making the same page more than once or something… Have you heard of any thing like that before?

there is nothing to speculate about – from the header of your blog link:

<title>Northampton Photography Studio - James Kenny Photography - Blog</title>
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 3.1.3" />
	<meta name="template" content="Suffusion 3.7.8" />
	<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />

	<meta name="author" content="James Kenny Photography" />
	<meta name="copyright" content="Copyright (c) 2011" />

seeing it in the combination with the other meta tags, it could be from the theme or theme options.

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />

Heh. Yes, that WOULD do it.

Thank you!!
Sorry to be a pain, but how do I change that and what should be in it’s place?

Sorry to be a pain, but how do I change that and what should be in it’s place?

it seems to me that this is something you have to find and change in the (overwhelmingly complex) theme options of the theme.

All sorted now thank you!

Hey James, How did you sort this out?