After figuring out what the problem was regarding this site not coming up in basic searches such as “Ridge Route” and “Santa Clarita Geology”, I am pleased to say that it looks like things are getting slowly back to normal.

The problems seemed to stem from “robots.txt” blocking search engines from indexing this site. I am not sure how or why that happened, as it wouldn’t be something I’d do, at least not on purpose. I corrected that and went back to Google Webmaster Tools to see what I could do. I used to have the site on there, but had been removed for some reason. After adding it back in and forcing a reindexing, I found a few more errors, which have since been corrected.

The meta keyword and description data also needed to be updated as WordPress deleted the information from my site, which it does whenever there is an update to WordPress itself. Modifying these has helped put the site out there a bit more.

I’ll stay more vigilant in my site monitoring to make sure this sort of problem doesn’t happen again. At least now I know what the issue is and can correct it. Thank you all for continued support for this site.