My website has fallen off the search engines

  • n e w
    bird
    design
    . com

    hello everyone – i started a local web design company and had everything built originally using standard CSS and i ranked extremely well under most of the targeted search terms.

    now that i have recreated the website using wordpress the site has completely disappeared form the search engines.

    I’m using an SEO plugin called headspace and something just isn’t right. when i view the source code at the address listed above its shows me as having a empty meta description and keyword tag at first then a little ways below you will see that the headspace SEO is then listed – i am thinking that Google is over looking these because of the 2 duplicate blank tags above them. now im might be completely wrong about this so if anyone might have some ideas of how i can fall off the search engines so quickly please let me know – Thanks

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  • Thread Starter newbirddesign

    (@newbirddesign)

    bump

    Michael Torbert

    (@hallsofmontezuma)

    WordPress Virtuoso

    Bumping your posts after only two hours in the middle of the night (US Time) won’t increase visibility (it hadn’t even left the first page yet). It will just take it off the unanswered list of posts that many volunteers go through, decreasing its chances of being answered.

    Have you visited the Headspace forums?

    The reason you have two sets of SEO data is probably because Headspace is adding one set, and your theme is adding the other set. If you’d like to continue to use Headspace, edit your header.php and remove the extra set. Headspace will still automatically add the other one onto the site.

    Also, check options-privacy.php and make sure that you have I would like my blog to be visible to everyone, including search engines (like Google, Sphere, Technorati) and archivers selected.

    Thread Starter newbirddesign

    (@newbirddesign)

    Thanks a lot man I will be more mindful of my bumps – and check both of these options out… if anyone has anymore ideas on this feel free to share – thanks!

    Michael Torbert

    (@hallsofmontezuma)

    WordPress Virtuoso

    Did you do the two things I told you?

    roberthq

    (@roberthqprintsnet)

    How do I find the meta data in the header…I know where the header.php file is, but I’m not sure I see any info there that relates to SEO.

    my header.php <head> info.

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>"  />
<title><?php if (is_home () ) { bloginfo('name'); echo " - "; bloginfo('description');
} elseif (is_category() ) {single_cat_title(); echo " - "; bloginfo('name');
} elseif (is_single() || is_page() ) {single_post_title(); echo " - "; bloginfo('name');
} elseif (is_search() ) {bloginfo('name'); echo " search results: "; echo wp_specialchars($s);
} else { wp_title(''); }?></title>
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" />
<meta name="robots" content="follow, all" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />

    Any help would be great Hallsofmontezuma.

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