Site doesn't appear in google search

you need to check your robot.txt file.
and check the code inside that file,that is my robot.txt file not let serach engine to crawl your website. so checkout that file in your hosting root directory (where you have install wordpress).

Probably a silly question, but have you maybe blocked search engines to index your site in the WP settings under Settings > Reading ?

Just verified, haven’t enabled the setting you talked about.

Verified the robots.txt (like site.com/robots.txt), and it looks like this:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/

Kindly suggest.

Have you tried searching the full URL of one of the posts with the issue? Does that come up?

Hi Andrew, thanks for the response.

Its quite strange. The very first post of the site shows up when I search the complete URL.

However no other posts come up.

I verified the SEO Yoast settings for every post, and it as below:
Meta Robots Index: Default of post type, currently: index
Meta Robots Follow: Follow

Am I checking the right settings or is there any other setting that needs to be verified?

Can you link a post with the issue, as an example?

Sure, the site is https://www.womanspice.com

A sample post is this: https://womanspice.com/chambor-silver-shadow-compact-powder-review/

Even on entering the URL in google it doesn’t show up, though URLs associated with the tags of this post come up.

There doesn’t appear to be anything wrong with the code. Maybe this is a Google issue.
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/34441?hl=en
Have you tried Google’s forums: https://groups.google.com ?

Hi Andrew,

This problem is arise when search engine visibility is disable from Settings > Reading -> Search Engine Visibility or wrong cpde in robot.txt file.

Now ,Your site is is appearing in google search

Thanks Sushil, can you help us understand what’s wrong in the robots.txt file: https://www.womanspice.com/robots.txt ?

Your robots.txt is fine.

Your sitemaps aren’t fine.

Thanks WebPrezence, can you help us understand why the sitemaps aren’t fine?

Guys, just an update. The posts don’t appear on google search.

The links that appear are those of tags and pages.

Posts aren’t appearing.

(a) The sitemaps aren’t fine because something, probably your settings >> general is mixed up (WordPress address has a www and your Site URL doesn’t, or vice-versa; they don’t match), and the SEO plugin WordPress SEO isn’t configured properly. If you believe it’s configured properly, uninstall it, delete the files, and reinstall it.

(b) You don’t just make a website and see it blossom on Google. I have an entire corporation dedicated to this; if it was just as easy as adding an SEO plugin, there wouldn’t be a need for people like me.

An SEO plugin adds meta data to your site — specifically, a meta description and a meta title. There’s debate as to whether or not it’s even beneficial to have a meta description (force one on Google), or whether to let Google choose what snippets they want, when they want.

So search marketing is much more than adding a plugin. With some clients, I don’t even want an SEO plugin.

There are two aspects to search marketing: (1) on-page SEO, and (2) off-page SEO.

On-page SEO — getting your content in rife with key phrases, meta data, H1 titles, etc., is about 10% of your overall SEO.

The bulk of your SEO campaign is off-page SEO … doing things that aren’t even on your website. This includes “going social” — having social media outlets, but too many make the mistake of thinking “going social” is all you have to do, and you’re done.

Most importantly, you’ll have to develop a Google Webmasters account, add your site, submit your sitemap, and ask Google to fetch your site.

Within 24 hours, I’m sure the Googlebot will index your site. You’ll also want to do the same with Bing Webmaster Tools.

Then, list yourself in directories; develop a solid link-building and networking strategy. Market yourself; write pages and posts with good content and ensure they’re visited.