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by rfergie 4170 days ago
Have you registered your site with Google webmaster tools (https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/)?

That would be a good first step for seeing if Google are having specific trouble with anything on your site

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I had a similar problem and it turned out that google webmaster tools has an interesting 'feature'.

When you register a domain, say for example: http://www.cnn.com

Does not necessarily register if you have forced your server to use http://cnn.com (without the www. before the domain name).

If you have set up your web server like that, make sure you add the non www. domain to webmaster tools as well. For some strange reason, it seems some subdomains alongside certain settings in the webmaster tools area, will tell google that the two sites are totally different.

I have yes, no mention of any issues from the tools (it even claims to like the sitemap).