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**NormanRouxel** · 19-Mar-2006, 02:41 PM

I am sure that there are fundamental errors within the coding and the way the site has been set up that is causing these problems...

Are you qualified to make such an absolute statement?

There's nothing wrong with your site Navigation.

All your pages contain a link to the Site Map and that page contains a link to all the product pages.

This means that there is nothing preventing search engines from finding all your product pages.

I can also see a sensible title, and well defined meta Keyword and Description tags.

In all, it seems like your site is competently put together.

One area that seems somewhat overdone is the huge number of hard-coded links you have to your product pages. Everything after Quicklinks to Branded Products seems a bit too much.

**Charles Bastari** · 19-Mar-2006, 03:08 PM

Have you uploaded a sitemap to Google? Not your sitemap from your site, but an xml file for G to crawl in your root directory.

If not, you might try downloading this free software to create the file.
http://johannesmueller.com/gs/

Then register on Google SiteMaps. They've got their own sitemap generator, but it's too complicated. The free software does it all. After the xml file is created you can upload it via FTP from the program or use your own FTP program and just drag it over into the root directory.

Also, you must create an empty file that they want in your root directory to confirm to the crawlers that your are the registrant. You will be given a unique name for the file when you register. The G crawlers will be looking for that empty, named file before they will crawl your sitemap.
https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login?hl=en

It worked for me. G has indexed more pages than I have pages. About 15,000 in less than five weeks. But having pages indexed doesn't mean anything unless you're getting ranking AND ORDERS.

c

PS I'm envious of your link popularity. How'd you do it?

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**RuralWeb** · 19-Mar-2006, 04:54 PM

Having spent 2 hours on the phone with you only last week discussing your site you should know exactly where the problems lie. I am surprised that you are starting another thread on exactly the same subject as your last one - you will get the same answers! You never came back to me for a follow up after our last conversation.

**leehack** · 19-Mar-2006, 05:33 PM

Did you advise things he couldnt be bothered to do, so now he's seeing if theres something a bit easier?

**hobuk** · 20-Mar-2006, 07:45 AM

Google is doing the same to me and another i know of, in the space of 50 minutes we lost over 300 pages, it seems that the results can differ depending on what time you do the search, It seems that the mighty G has not finnished what they started in December, trouble is how many people have to go out of business before they sort it!!

One thing that does make me wonder - how can a page rank 5 site have less back links than a page rank 2 if links are so important, to how your site is treated by G surely the sites with a greater number of backlinks should fair better and be indexed properly?

Regards
Lee

**RuralWeb** · 20-Mar-2006, 08:35 AM

how can a page rank 5 site have less back links than a page rank 2 if links are so important, to how your site is treated by G surely the sites with a greater number of backlinks should fair better and be indexed properly?

Its not only the number of backlinks that count towards page rank but the page rank of the pages on the sites that link to you. So you you can end up with the situation above ie the page rank 5 site has less links but they are higher "quality" links.

**Rocky** · 29-Mar-2006, 05:03 PM

Google Sitemap and Gsitecrawler Software Update

Just an update to Charles' post above re: Gsitecrawler software and changes to Google Sitemap schema.

Thanks for tip. Gsitecrawler is first class and easy to use although auto FTP doesn't work - no bother to manually FTP to site server.

However, it seems from 26 March Google Sitemaps require additional header code that needs to be manually edited into the Gsitecrawler .xml file. In addition to the standard header <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
[included in Gsite file]
Google Sitemap now requires:
<urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84">
<url>
....
</url>
</urlset> [end of sitemap file]

Also, after several attempts found that masked comments in file made by Gsitecrawler and any reference to 'Projects' in file should be deleted for Google to accept your sitemap.xml file.

Hope this will help others avoid 'Unsupported format' errors which are hitting previously OK sitemaps since Google changes.

http://www.georgiajewellery.co.uk

**wjcampbe** · 29-Mar-2006, 06:07 PM

Paul,

Have not encountered your errors and added a new sitemap just this week. In fact, I verified it today (thanks for the reminder). I use the automated FTP and ping on four sites - are you using the generate menu option and then following through? Do you have 1.06 v251?

**Rocky** · 29-Mar-2006, 09:44 PM

Gsitecrawler and Google Sitemap

Bill

Yes, I'm using 1.06 v251 but only played with it for two days so clearly I've missed something.

At least my sitemap has been verified (yeah!), but my robots.txt file has gone from verified to 'Not Found' - Google working on this apparently.

What a game...

Paul

**Duncan Rounding** · 30-Mar-2006, 07:21 AM

Originally posted by Charles Bastari

PS I'm envious of your link popularity. How'd you do it?

If you use Adwords with content seach enabled some robots list your ad on other sites as a link back - thus boosting the so-called link popularity. When we were using content search our link popularity went up and stayed that way for about 2 months after stopping it. It made no difference to sales however.

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