Impact of Wordpress theme on search engine results
A few days ago I have switched the theme of this blog from freicurv to WP-Polaroid and since then the visits on my blog (not very many visitors anyway) went down to zero yesterday.
I hope this switch to a new theme did not impact my search engine results that much and it is just a temporary issue. Especially for the Icybox 4220 I had quite good positions.
UPDATE I: Of course the theme has an impact on the visits, at least if you have the google analytics code hard coded into your theme... 
I guess the problem was, that I did not have the Google Analytics tracking code on the page anymore. We will see what tomorrow brings.
UPDATE II: The installation of the Wordpress Plugin for Google Analytics didn't help either. There is something wrong with that WP-Polaroid theme when it comes to web analytics. None of the tools that I was testing was working anymore, so I switched back to freicurv for now. It's too late to figure out what is wrong with the theme.
Google penalty because of excluding the bot temporary by robots.txt?
One of my websites was mistakenly excluded from crawling by a wrong entry in the robots.txt. When I noticed the drop in visits it was already too late. The search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc.) had removed the website already from their index.
I have changed the robots.txt immediately, but until now the website is not back in the index. I have checked in Googles Webmaster Tools and everything seems to be OK. I know it can take a while until you show up in the index, but from my experience it never takes that long.
Therefore I was wondering whether Google might have some penalty for websites which did not allow their bot to access the website. Maybe that it takes simply far longer until it can be reincluded? Did someone make the same experience? Any answers?
Wordpress Plugin: Don’t index my feed
Maybe you saw my post about my problem to exclude the feed from the search result pages. To avoid duplicate content I wanted to exclude the feeds from the content, so they can not draw any attention from the actual blog post. Finally I found out why Google had denied my request and fixed that problem (I had made a mistake in the robots.txt). But there was an additional problem: what about the comment feeds?