[Note to the wise: jump to last EDIT] I have a very simple txt sitemap (named sitemap.txt) that looks like this: http://myDomain.com http://myDomain.com/about.html http://myDomain.com/faq.html http://myDomain.com/careers.html When I load it up on webmaster tools I get: Sitemap is HTML - Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Plea...
I am desperate to know why Google webmaster tools AND analytics are registering my home page as a trailing slash?! There are no crawl errors, 401s, search issues, nothing wrong otherwise. My home page is written with a trailing slash and if a visitor does not include the slash, my site will automatically fetch the / and send them to ht...
Hey, I have created a sitemap for my site and it complies with the protocol set by http://www.sitemaps.org/ Google has been told about this sitemap via webmaster tools. It has tracked all the urls within the sitemap (500+ urls) but has only indexed 1 of them. The last time google downloaded the sitemap was on the 21st of Oct 2009. Whe...
Hi all, I am using JBoss Seam on a Jetty web server and am having some issues with the query parameters breaking links when they appear in google searches. The first parameter is one JBoss Seam uses to track conversations, cid or conversationId. This is a minor issue as Google is complaining I am submitting different urls with the sam...
I've submitted sitemap.xml files to google webmaster tools and it says that i has all of the page in total but under "indexed" it says "--"? How long does it take for Google to start indexing? This was a couple of days ago. ...
If I want to implement Ajax and have the back/forward button and also a unique URL for everything fully working, should I use Google Web Toolkit or really simple history? Do they provide both these things? It would be nice if someone with experience from these tools could share your thoughts. EDIT: is there a difference between Google...
There's a way of excluding complete page(s) from google's indexing. But is there a way to specifically exclude certain part(s) of a web page from google's crawling? For example, exclude the side-bar which usually contains unrelated contents? ...
I have changed a structure of my site. I have changed a sitemap file on googleWebmasters. But Google still gives me old information on search. old links. How I can solve this problem? I mean, how to make Google to show new information from site? ...
When you are on the Sitemaps page of Google Webmaster tools (i.e. https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/sitemap-list?hl=en&siteUrl=http://yoursite.com/) you will see something like: Sitemap stats Total URLs: 10 Indexed URLs: 5 Is there a way to access these numbers using an API? ...
I have a maths related site and google created the sitelinks for my site , :) :) google is giving my site some priority and i'm using the google web master tools And there is an option to block any unwanted links from that list... But the sitelinks are not exactly the subcategories of my site. Can we decide what should be our site...
var settings = new RequestSettings("appname", "googleusername", "googlepassword"); var service = new WebmasterToolsRequest(settings); var site = new Sites("http://www.mysite.com", "text/plain"); Sites resultSite = service.AddSite(site); resultSite.VerificationMethod.Type = "htmlpage"; resultSite.SitesEntry.Update(); .Update fails with ...
Hi, we have a website that offers licenses online. I hope this is the right forum for this kind of questions. We have business partners targeting the US market, and we are responsible for all of the rest of the world. We are not allowed to offer licenses to visitors from the US. We therefore want to target all countries with the except...
I'm busy integrating google webmaster tools into my mvc2 project. I downloaded the google Data API SDK here. But i can't figure out how to connect to the api and retrieve information from it. I can't find any assemblies in the SDK i can use in my testproject to connect to the webmaster tools api. If anybody already tried or has informat...
I'm researching a project in which I want to integrate the Google Webmaster Tools Api. I already asked this question before in this topic, but i didn't get a response yet. I've already searched the internet for some good documentation which i already found here but the documentation doesn't supply a download to the API. I have the Googl...
When analyzing my various websites pages with Google Page Speed, I always have the following recommendations: leverage browser caching serve static content from a cookie-less domain I have no idea on how to eliminate or implement these messages. Can this be done: through .htaccess through php code Apache configuration How can t...
I am wondering if I should add the www prefix when I add a website to Google Webmaster Central. Both versions of the website (http://www.website.com and http://website.com) are exactly the same so I am wondering if it makes a difference. ...
Our website gets updated almost everyday. We need to update the sitemap to the google webmasters every time there are new pages added. We have tried using ping_google() along with the required set of arguments and google and it never seem to update the sitemap on webmasters. To log the response, we re-wrote the function and logged the ...
Hi, I'm running a site which allows users to create subdomains. I'd like to submit these user subdomains to search engines via sitemaps. However, according to the sitemaps protocol (and Google Webmaster Tools), a single sitemap can include URLs from a single host only. What is the best approach? At the moment I've the following stru...
I wish to access my Google Webmaster's tools' API via R. I see from here: http://code.google.com/apis/webmastertools/docs/2.0/reference.html That it requires fetching a feed behind https and parsing it. Any suggestions on how to do it? ...
Is there a method of adding websites in bulk to Google Webmaster Tools? My host username and password were hacked and all of my sites were injected with malicious scripts. I've cleaned everything up but the sites were d-listed and no longer show up in google search. I need to request reviews for ~150 sites but first I need to add them ...