I have a little issue concerning the sitemap of a website.
The website is : http://parmemarin.com.
If I go on http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ and try to generate a sitemap for my website I end up with only one link in my sitemap which is _inc/conditions.php
There is no index.php or other of my links (index.php?page=...)
Can someone help me on this one ?
Thanks
Well, that could be a problem with xml-sitemaps.com, it could be a problem with your site, or it could be a combination of both. I don't know that service, so I can't tell how it really works and what it does.
Skimming through your markup, I noticed that you linked to some URLs without encoding the ampersand. & (if used for parameters) should be & if you link it in HTML.
I wonder: Why don't you build your sitemap yourself? You are the only one who knows for sure which pages exist on your site. Collect all your URLs and put them in a file, like http://www.sitemaps.org/ describes.
thanks, for your answer.
I had totally forgot to delete the meta : no index, no follow ... That clearly didn't helped :)
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I have generated a sitemap from online generators, it seems to be working and even i tested it on old google search console sitemap testor and it works. but when i submit it in both versions it just displays error message.
This is a known bug. See this Google support answer.
In my case, it's the sitemap that had a syntax error.
You should open sitemaps in Firefox, it will tell you if you have a syntax error.
Your sitemap domain address might have changed. If it is wordpress use yoast plugin, where search console will automatically consider sitemap.xml
I had the same problem and the solution was very simple, just put the full path to your sitemap.
Where the console asks 'add new sitemap', instead of writing /sitemap.xml, write the full path, such as https://example.com/sitemap.xml.
That should fix the problem.
Using the yoast SEO plugin which built out 10 sitemaps, the index got red the first time and only one of the sub-sitemaps did. I manually visited the other sitemaps (likely they took to long to respond I thought) and deleted the sitemap on google search console and re-uploaded. All were read that time.
I had this issue and it was because I didn't set the content-type to application/xml
This sitemap validator notified me of the issue: https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/validate-xml-sitemap.html
Enter the full URL of your sitemap, e.g., https://example.com/sitemap.xml. Also, ensure your sitemap name does not include numbers and symbols.
A contact of ours would like to repost our blog content on their website but I’ve always been told not to do this as it would be seen as duplicate content by google and hurt our SEO and drive traffic away. Is this correct?
It is indeed bad practice. Google is good at picking up who posted the article first and who has the duplicate content. If your contact is ok with it they can add a canonical tag pointing to the page that they took the content from that will make clear to google that they do not want rankings from doing so and that the original content is at your page.
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I have a wiki website. Many spammers using it for seo. They are adding spam-posts with a link to an external website. Is there way to make sure they won't get benefit of it? My thought is adding a text file like robots.txt to inform the search engine "don't consider external website links for search results". I don't want to prevent spammers from creating posts for the sake of advertisements :)
Add rel="nofollow" to the links when you output them on your site.
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=96569
They will still spam your site with links, so you'll need to monitor as well.
I read about canonical tags in HTML and from what I understood it is used to help search engines to realize which is the original content. I have articles in my recently created blog, which I have pasted in certain other popular websites. In those websites I gave back a link to my original blog post with the canonical tag. But yet my blog page is not visible in search engines (other websites do show my article). Before I had pasted onto other websites, my articles were indexed on google and could be seen on the 1st page. So I guess, there is no problem on my SEO part.
Can someone please suggest a method where my original blog gets higher preference for the content?
You can use cross domain canonical tags.
So if you have duplicated content on other domains you can use the canonical tag on those pages pointing back to the original page on your site.
This a great way to deal with syndicated content; of course you would need code level access on these other websites so you can implement the canonical tag.
More info below
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/12/handling-legitimate-cross-domain.html
Don't just copy paste your articles on every place on the internet, that will not do you any good. After writing a good article go to other sites and write something else about your articles like what your article is about, how it is helpful to someone, something like that so that people and websites come to your website to read your article. For this you don't need "canonical"
If you copy paste articles to other websites, it will only create duplicate content issues and will only harm your SEO efforts.
No, it is not required for your Blog section to do canonical issue.
Canonical means Google displays same pages with different URL.
The first thing is not submitting your article in different websites I will not give you any benefit in your ranking. If you write a good and quality content you should post in only one website if you post in different sited google will consider as a duplicate content. So it's better for you you can share your approved blog link in social media sites and also do social bookmarking, microblogging. And after you don't need canonical tag.
As #moobot said you can indeed use a cross-domain canonical tag to let Google know about the original source of the content. How exactly are you adding the canonical on other domains?
The canonical link should be in the head section of the html code. If you're adding it yourself somewhere in the body tag that's not going to do you any good.
Check out this article for some other common mistakes with the canonical tag
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.nl/2013/04/5-common-mistakes-with-relcanonical.html
#metadice mentioned that copying your content all over the web isn't good for your SEO and i agree completely. If you do this for some extra backlinks or something i would recommend you to stop doing this.
Hope my answer will help someone who has this same question.
I am trying to have forum title in the url so for eg, my forum title "grass is green" shows ups in the url as www.myforum/forum/grass-is-green.php and not www.myforum/forum/viewforum.php?f=5
I have tried doing the changes given here http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=1053375 but the changes are not reflected and the url stills appears as before
Please help me out .. thanks in advance
The mod you linked to doesn't affect the URL, it looks up the title and changes a link's text in a post. What you are looking for is a SEO mod that rewrites / redirects URLs. A quick look through the phpBB site and I see a couple, but they seem to have issues. These types of mods can also break if a topic gets renamed. The original "...&t=250" link would work, but the ".../old_topic_name/" would break.
To quote one of the phpBB Support team members: "We do not recommend any SEO mods. There is no real reason to mess with the URLs like that. The search engines index them fine as-is."
Hope that helps!