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Problems With Google Webmaster! Please help!

DustinG

Published on August 4, 2015

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So, I've come across a problem that I can't seem to figure out on my own. You know, the kind of problem you try forever to fix yourself but finally throw your hands up and say "I need help!".

Well, here it is. About a week ago I received this email from the Google Search Console Team:

So, that being said I went to my Webmaster search console to see what was up and follow the directions given in the email. Here's what I found:

The "www.kirbysmarketing.com" thumbnail is the most up to date version of my site. The "kirbysmarketing.com" thumbnail has not been updated since my last post a couple weeks ago.

Now, following the steps in the email, I "fetch as google". And this is what I get:

And when I click on the row to see the details I get this:

I don't know anything about code so I don't even know what to look for in terms of mistakes. If you need the code to help me figure this out I'll pm it all to you. Please let me know.

Anyways, I submitted to index multiple times in the last week. And it hasn't made any sort of difference,

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Ok, to me it seemed like this all went fine and as usual. I think there might be something in the code causing the problem, but I don't even know what to look for.

Anyways, I assumed this worked fine so I continued with step 2 of the email, which was to update my robots.txt file. First I tested it and got these results:

So, everything seems to be fine with this. Just to make sure I checked out All-In-One SEO to make sure the robots.txt matches up, and it does. Here it is from All-In-One in my WP dashboard:

Because everything seemed to be fine and lining up between the two, I submitted the new (nothing changed from before) robots.txt to Google, but when I rerun the tester multiple days later, it still says the robots.txt file is from Wednesday, July 29 (one day after I received the first email from Google.

I really am stuck and have no idea what to do. My traffic has been next to nothing, as you can see from this graph of my traffic over the last two weeks:

I have had three visitors from Google since July 29, the rest is all direct or referral traffic. So, obviously something is wrong.

Please help!

Here is some other information. I have not installed any new plugins in the last month. I don't even think I have even updated any plugins in the last two weeks. So, I don't think that has had anything to do with this (although it may have, I don't know).

Please let me know if there is any other information you need to help me figure this out. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. I am really stuck and have no idea what to do to get my rankings back in Google.

I have no idea what I'm looking for in the CSS or Javascript code on my site. So, if that is where the problem is I REALLY need help.

If you made it this far and have any advice or things I can do, or just know what I need to do, please, please, please let me know!

Thanks again,

Dustin

P.S. Here are the resources Webmaster is blocking:

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