Website not being indexed by Google

[Mr. Brightside]

I've had the domain http://www.piggott.me.uk since 2004 now I think and have run various blogs and other things on it in the past, all of which were indexed by Google and could easily be found. For the last year or two the site was basically empty except for http://fahstat.piggott.me.uk . About three months ago now I started up a blog on the site, initially located at http://www.piggott.me.uk/blog with a page at http://www.piggott.me.uk that linked to http://www.piggott.me.uk/blog and http://fahstat.piggott.me.uk .

After a few weeks I noticed that while http://www.piggott.me.uk was being indexed fine by Google, http://www.piggott.me.uk/blog was not coming up in results at all (i.e. searching for site:www.piggott.me.uk/blog comes up with nothing).

In order to try and make my blog locatable via Google and knowing that the root of the site - http://www.piggott.me.uk - was being indexed fine, I decided to put the blog at both URLs by adding this rewrite rule to the root of the site:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^piggott.me.uk$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.piggott.me.uk$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.piggott\.me\.uk\/blog" [R=302,L]

I left it a couple of weeks to let Google crawl it. Now if I do a search even for site:www.piggott.me.uk I get nothing referring to my blog at either location, just a load of results for my http://fahstat.piggott.me.uk application.

Can anyone help with this? It would seem that Google doesn't like my blog but I can't see why. Can anyone help work out why, and what I can do to make it like it?

Cheers,
Mr. Brightside

 

[daz]

In your Wordpress settings, have you selected "allow my website to be indexed by search engines"?

Such a simple one but it's off by default

Your robots.txt looks OK... but I would try removing it to see what happens.

 

[Mr. Brightside]

This is not just fail. This is epic fail. I had it set to not be indexed. I really should have checked that.

Thanks daz! Will check it again in a few weeks and hopefully it will be nicely indexed!