When I changed this to my Yahoo! email address, it worked!

Thanks!

Thanks for your input. I have included a note about this in the post. My settings only required my Yahoo! ID…

Are you using Outlook 2007?

It honestly does not appear that you have done anything terribly wrong here, but I would fix as many of the validation errors as possible. I am assuming you meant robots.txt not robot.txt as the latter is not correct.

You mention “crossposted” content. I’m not sure what you are trying to accomplish or mean by this, but Google will definitely penalize you for duplicate content. I don’t know how weighted this would be across sites like in your case.

If you block search engines from indexing your wp-content folder, your image uploads will be omitted. I can see where this might penalize you if a spider goes looking for something and then stops because of this. You might try opening up all restrictions in robots.txt or temporarily renaming it to see if therein lies the problem…

Did you create/upload a Google site map (XML format)? In case you weren’t aware, there is a great plugin for WordPress that does just this – automatically. It’s called Google XML Sitemaps and the link is here.

I wouldn’t be surprised to find that changing and updating your permalinks causes Google to lose its index of you. It may just take some plain old-fashioned time.

Judging by your site’s html source code, you have a Google Webmaster Tools validation META tag in there. I would look closely at the Google Webmaster Tools info…

Also, it would be great to know what you find out on this and post it to share with others…

-Dan

My recently new wordpress site is not indexing correctly. Im not sure if this is because I have recently changed the permalink format and Google needs time to recrawl it (I have submitted both the main site page and blog URLS), or if it is related to my SEO ultimate setup or errors in the site.

Submitting the site to the validator gave 25 errors. This surprised me as I purchased the theme. However, a lot of these look fairly harmless..
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.deviouscreations.co.uk&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

I have also set up my robot.txt file using SEO Ultimate’s File Editor override as:

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /wp-admin
Disallow: /wp-includes
Disallow: /wp-content
Disallow: /t/

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Allow: /

User-agent: Adsbot-Google
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile
Allow: /

However, my new posts never show up. Instead, the same posts that are crossposted to my live journal show up instead! So you get the cross posts, not the originals.

What have I done wrong??