: A relatively new blog seems to be getting very poor Google indexing I have a new blog that is 2 months old. In the first few weeks, it was getting indexed nicely and my GoogleWebmaster reports

@Jennifer507

When I was working on WordPress sites, I always used this free plugin to track things.

If you built the site yourself, it's definitely possible you've got errors with the way you've laid out the site. Otherwise, it could be a number of other factors. You'll need some kind of analytical tool to track down the problem.

It could be url structure, could be your sitemap is out of date, could be you're overusing terms or tags. Slow site speed is definitely a killer, though. That's what you need to work out. It might be that you've got some errors in your layout files or plugins not playing well together.

There's a lot of possibilities, but fixing the speed issue should get you a long way.

Keep in mind, there have also been a lot of major algorithm updates lately, too, so that could be part of it. If your site's doing anything that make Penguin or Hummingbird unhappy, that could be another part of the problem. Hope that helps a bit.

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@Eichhorn148

The website seems pretty slow. Here it needs 20+ seconds to load completely. Google does not like slow websites

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