This has been bugging me for a while - what exactly does it mean when you look at the google webmaster page after submitting a site map and lists the number of urls in the web index?
It’s stupid, I know, and I expect that now I have finally managed to upload my sitemap without it being rejected it will find more stuff and that number will go up. But it says only 1 url in the web index and has for a while. I’ve been wondering if there is another problem.
It seems there is a specific problem with one of my links. It just doesn’t follow it. I checked and there’s no script there or nofollow.
At first I thought moving its position on the page might help. The page was being tinkered with and is a mess of commented out stuff so I know sometimes that can trip you up (something wasn’t commented out properly). Moving it up the page didn’t help, and it looks as though maybe submitting the sitemap again was also a red herring.
The next thing that I thought of was that the first link on my page goes to a google map … could google just be getting as far as that first link and vanishing away never to return? Or is that crazy thinking? I know people say the position of things on a page is important, but if it’s that important this really is something to be aware of. If it’s true I wonder why I didn’t know.
There are other possibilities but I just thought I’d throw that one out there and see if it’s at all based on reality. Interested to know what anyone else thinks.
EDIT: I already know google has in fact got lots of my pages on its search results and it does in fact know of more than one page. It seems to find another link further down the page - or it did - but it could be finding that on another site and coming in from there. The two links are very similar and both link to my blog - but one to a page and the other to a list of posts. It’s the one with the list of posts that seems to be invisible to googlebot.
first of all provide the link to your sitemap for more info. secondly don’t worry if you have just submitted your sitemap it takes days for indexing pages of your site. And all of your pages might not be even indexed. To know more about how many page is indexed use
“site:www.yourdomain.co”
It’s at http://thecybertramp.com/sitemap/Sitemap.xml
I know there is a ton of stuff wrong with the sitemap and the site in general, it’s something I’m tinkering with here.
I just have this mental image of the googlebot walking in through the front door of my site and leaving again through a window (the google map). Perhaps it will sort itself out in a few days. At the moment I’m more concerned with getting it to “see” my blog than the finer details.
I think I should also put 301 redirects on old pages that are now extinct. They are still there, but no longer linked from anywhere. I suppose that might stop google noticing all the new stuff. If I stick all the old stuff in the blog and redirect any incoming traffic to the blog it might help.
I’m not used to WordPress and the my site is just a big sandbox really. I’ve only recently “revealed” the blog part at all. I probably don’t do myself any favours because I’m always scrapping designs and content, I used to rank well for some terms and then vanished. Now I know that I at least should have put a 301 redirect on any pages that I “took down”. At least with google’s tools I can see who has linked to my stuff and make sure they keep their links …
First of All make the change in permalink structure to more user friendly urls :
Example Change : yourdomainname.com/blog/?p=32&cpage=1 to yourdomainname.com/blog/neuroweb or something like that.
SEO TIP :Both SE & Users like url with a meaningful name. try to use your keyword in these urls.If you are using Wordpress go to settings and in the permalink tab choose custom and put this %postname%. It will do you the trick
Second : Change the priorities of the most important pages to 1.0
Third : Change the <changefreq> to daily for the time being as it is a new site. Later on you can change back to weekly of monthly as desired.
Don’t have orphan pages in your sites. If those old pages still get traffics and are useful just add them in you site. Use a 301 for the useless ones.
Have a structured text linking as a site navigation inside the pages and always have your homepage 1 link away from each of the main pages. It helps users to find pages more easily and bots love a structured navigation.
excellent advice. I was aware I needed to do most things on your list but it’s all quite confusing for a newbie. As I said I’m essentially tinkering with it at odd moments, there’s so much stuff I need to do to it …
A list like that really helps as next time I go in for an edit I’ll have a list to work through quickly that someone else thinks is a good idea, if you see what I mean. Saves a lot of head-scratching and dithering.
Thanks.
Oh and PS I was worried by the warning in WordPress not to use %postname% and %categoryname% without all that date rubbish because of the database size. But I’m sure it’s not really something a small site needs to worry about.
If you want to generate proper sitemap file than use only xmlsitemap-generator tool only.
Bcoz this tool generate only working & live links, did not generate broken links.
If your all links are working properly than Google will doing index your all pages within 1week.