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I’ve not made a single post for how many days? One, two, three, four, I don’t exactly remember. In those days, I’d been busy writing an article for my other blog which basically just anything about the Filipino world. You see I own the blogosphere.com.ph domain and hopefully, I will forever.  And in those days too, I’ve been finding out why none of my blogs are showing up in Google search results. There are some links that are appearing but they don’t get directly to the sites themselves; they are just syndicated content from my sites. I’m still lucky that I knew how to take advantage of social bookmarking.

I went to the Google Webmasters site and figured out why, why, why? I just realized that all my domains are under one folder which is public_html which is the root folder of my one particular domain. So the other domain’s path would be like public_html/blogaddict.info or public_html/blogosphere.com.ph, etc.  Too bad though that I already submitted for google crawling that domain which as the public_html/ folder. Everytime I updated my other sites the one which is being recognized by google to be updating is the main domain. If you are knowledged of Google’s policy about duplicated content, you’ll get what happens to the others–they are penalized by google for duplicated content so they wouldn’t be showing up. The only idea I could think is to place a robots.txt on the main folder that disallows any search engine to crawl its content.

I checked on the result the next day. Although Google did not crawl the contents of public_html, it still did not crawl the other sites.  I realized that I might have chosen during wordpress installation to disallow search engine from crawling them. Wordpress automatically creates a virtual noindex to all links robots.txt. The solution I came up with was to create robots files which do the otherwise and xml sitemaps. I hope these step will work. Check out blogaddict.info’s robots.txt and sitemap.xml

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