How to Remove Search Engine Optimization Blocks From a Website

Visitors who link to sites from search engine response pages have a general idea of why that particular link was given. It has something to do with the keyword phase entered into the search bar, and more than other websites, the links provided fulfilled the qualifications better than others. When a website never gets listed, or has been waiting too long to get searched by the major search engines, maybe you have to remove what’s blocking the search engines from indexing the information, or include important code that’s keeping that great website from view of the world.

Things You'll Need

• Web host
• Access to file manager (password)
• Able to write HTML (or use of an editor to alter the HTML code of a webpage)
• Webpages
• Access Records (Stats)
• FTP Access (For websites hosted on private, paid servers)

Instructions

1. Access the website host through the admin panel of the website host. Find the website files and folders which contain all the code for the website. Locate the index file which contains the code for the website’s home page. Starting with this page first ensures you that the most important information will be indexed first if the search engines come to index during the upgrade.

2. Choose to modify the file using an editor like FrontPage, open the index file and view the page in its HTML code version. By doing this, you have access to the code which the search engines will follow or not follow to the information contained within the webpage. Located on the page level of code you may find a phase like “No Index” or “No Follow,” this code blocks your content from being searched. It effectively deflects the search engine’s text robots to come and collect information about the site. Instead of “No Index” and “No Follow,” remove the “No” and proceed. This code now allows for indexing by search engines, but this may not be what’s blocking you entirely.

3. Remove all “No Follow,” “No Snippet,” “No Archive,” “No Index” phases that you may find listed in code between the different page levels, and save the file. Upload the new index file. Remember that if new versions don’t override the original version at the web host level, you will have gone back and delete the original index page so that the new index is the only index available. For the remaining pages, they should override when a new version is saved and uploaded.

4. Complete the index block removal, but this is just the beginning. Now that you have started, be sure that the web pages include all the favorite codes that search engines love to index. As an example, be sure to alt tag every photo with a keyword phrase included. Qualify your Meta tags and content authors in the heading of each web page. With these Meta tag descriptors, you can boost your ratings by placing only the best keywords and phrases, saturated at the proper amounts.