SpaceDogDeveloper

What I normally do is wrap the shortcode in a <div> or a <span> in the HTML editor, give it a specific ID and use CSS inheritance to override the offending styles.

That’s an X-Robots tag, which is typically sent via server HTTP headers. Its likely that its in your htaccess file, and not in a plugin.

“noindex, nofollow” doesn’t prevent Google from fetching or crawling a page. It is still there for all to see… including search engines. What it does do is signal to a search engine “don’t include this page in your index or follow links on this page”.

Just reread your post and realized I missed the point ??

Check the source of the page and see if there is another plugin somewhere that might be adding a second noindex, nofollow… you might want to check your wordpress settings under “Privacy” to make sure your site isn’t set to be hidden from search.

Did you setup a Facebook application as per: https://wpvideo.tv/wordpress-blog-posts-auto-feed-facebook-fan-page/wordpress/682/ ?

404 errors in GWT don’t necessarily need to “have existed” for them to show up. Its entirely possible there is a link pointing to these pages from either your site, or someone else’s site. Check the source in webmaster tools (the “linked from” tab).

Could’ve been anything really. Updated theme files, subversion rollback, syntax error in the CSS… couldn’t say really.

The sidebar things you are seeing are the default sidebar.php widgets. Depending on your theme, you should be able to add new widgets under Appearance -> Widgets in the wordpress administration.

In a theme, a sidebar is usually called with the get_sidebar() function (or the dynamic sidebar if statement). In the code you have in the pastebin, it looks like you’re trying to call a “sidebar left” and “sidebar right”, but I can’t see if you’ve registered your sidebars in the functions.php file, or if you created a sidebar-left.php and sidebar-right.php file.

As for the head tag.. I’d likely need to see your current source to figure that one out.

First off, according to the pastebin code your header.php file is missing the closing </head> tag, might be related to your issue, might not.

Secondly, when you relative link a file as you are here:<link rel="stylesheet" href="wp-content/themes/cacnr/css/flexslider.css" type="text/css"> it will look for the file relative to the directory you are at.. for example, a file linked without an opening trailing slash (href=”file.css”) it will look for that file relative to the URL you are on (www.example.com/im-in-this-folder/file.css). If the file doesn’t exist there, it will 404.

in the case of “wp-content/themes/cacnr/css/flexslider.css”, it will only find the CSS file on the root of the domain “example.com/wp-content/themes/cacnr/css/flexslider.css” but will 404 when you go elsewhere “example.com/subpage/wp-content/themes/cacnr/css/flexslider.css” <- not found.

You are right to use the template_url function to get the template URL, which appears to be, in your case, “/wp-content/themes/cacnr”. That is the url the function will echo, so if you have a folder inside your theme folder called “css” with a file inside it called flexslider.css, then you would write it as follows:

href="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/css/flexslider.css"

you can use this to access any folder in your theme.. lets say you have an images folder with a picture.jpg inside:

<img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/picture.jpg" />

I highly recommend installing the Firebug browser plugin if you haven’t. It will save you tonnes of time figuring out hair-pulling problems!

You’ll probably want to move the <?php twentyten_posted_on(); ?> inside the <h1> tag before the <a> tag and manually add a pipe:

<h1 class="entry-title"><?php twentyten_posted_on(); ?> | <a href…

You’ll also need to use CSS to re-style the content (unless you add a span or something to add the “entry-meta” class back in.

h1 tags are heading tags and the browser clears all content to the left/right by default.

The cache for your site states your site was last crawled by Google on June 4th, and the source shows there was no title tag then, which leads me to believe you just configured the plugin recently.

The first lesson you need to learn about SEO is patience. It does not happen overnight. Wait for your site to be crawled and reindexed …although, judging by your site’s content, I would not expect miracles. It looks spamtastic.

Your footer is overlapping the content of the page.

add “clear: both;” to the #footer code in your CSS file and your content will reappear.

@rai@acuariopro.com I am discussing the robots meta tag directive, not the robots.txt file. There is a difference between the two.

See https://www.robotstxt.org/

And yes, the robots meta directive is created with the Yoast plugin and there are many options to adjust them.

The link canonical tag is an indicator to search engines as to which url is the “preferred version” of a page. I couldn’t explain it better than Google already has here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394

Assuming you’re using Apache, it it the apache 404 page you’re seeing or the wordpress one? Does your .htaccess file have the wordpress rewrite conditions?

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

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