Are Your Website Getting Indexed?
If you are in the site flipping business then I’m sure that you want to do the right thing by your customers. So you wouldn’t want to be selling websites that have very little chance of being indexed or ranking well in the search engines.
When I am creating a new website, there is an extra step that I have now added to the process. If I don’t do this step then the website is probably not likely to get indexed so it is important that this step is done.
If you go into the admin area of your Wordpress website and in the left sidebar menu choose ‘Settings’ and then ‘Privacy’ you will see two options.
Option 1: I would like my blog to be visible to everyone, including search engines (like Google, Sphere, Technorati) and archivers.
Option 2: I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors.
Previously option 1 would be the default selection and so you didn’t need to worry about changing this, but for some reason Wordpress are now making option 2 the default selection. So if you don’t change this selection then the website will be blocked by the search engines.
I have no idea why Wordpress are making it so option 2 is default, it seems a bit silly to me but that’s the way it is, so when you are creating a new website you really need to go in and change the selection to option 1 to ensure that the website will get indexed.
Don’t forget to ’save changes’ and then you’re all set to go on with creating your website as normal.
Remember, you really do need to complete this step to do the right thing by your customers. After all, every site flipping customer is a potential future customer if they are happy with your service and their new website then they may come back and purchase from you again.
