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  • Beth 2 posts 72 karma points
    Dec 04, 2017 @ 08:22
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    SEO question

    Hi,

    I've noticed that when I search for my website in google, it simply reads 'No information is available for this page'

    Could you please advise where in umbraco I can input information for this?

    Thanks

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  • Steve Morgan 1278 posts 4216 karma points c-trib
    Dec 04, 2017 @ 12:37
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    It sounds like you have a robots.txt or perhaps a noindex flag on the page blocking Google from seeing it.

    https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7489871?hl=en

    If you're stuck DM me the URL and I'll take a quick look for you.

    HTH

    Steve

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  • Beth 2 posts 72 karma points
    Dec 04, 2017 @ 14:02
    Beth
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    Hi Steve,

    Thanks for getting back in touch.

    The website is here, if you wouldn't mind having a look for me?

    Thanks in advance!

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  • Ben Palmer 166 posts 811 karma points c-trib
    Dec 04, 2017 @ 14:08
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    Hi Beth,

    Steve nailed it, your robots.txt file is disallowing all crawlers at: http://howsbusiness.org/robots.txt

    User-agent: *
Disallow: /

    You should change this to something like (as a starter, you may want to read up on robots.txt best practices):

    User-agent: *
Disallow: /aspnet_client/
Disallow: /bin/
Disallow: /config/
Disallow: /css/
Disallow: /data/
Disallow: /install/
Disallow: /masterpages/
Disallow: /python/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /umbraco/
Disallow: /umbraco_client/
Disallow: /usercontrols/
Disallow: /xslt/

    You can also read a little more about robots.txt.

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  • Steve Morgan 1278 posts 4216 karma points c-trib
    Dec 04, 2017 @ 15:14
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    Personally I would just set it to (note how the '/' is now missing).

    User-agent: *
Disallow:

    I tend not to put too much info in my robots.txt as it shows what the site is running (I hide the /Umbraco folder in a different way if you're concerned about security).

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