Sorry I missed that bit out! We moved to Actinic and had to change hosting company too.
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I would recommend submitting your sitemap to google. To do this, register for their webmaster tools. It allows you to upload an xml sitemap with all your pages, tells you when the last crawl was, how any pages were crawled, which search terms your site is coming up under and at what rank. It's pretty nifty. Not sure how to create an xml sitemap? This site will generate one for you for free.
I would also strongly recommend registering for Google Analytics . You just paste the code in your templates before the end of the body tag and you'll get highly detailed stats or your site, including an overlay of each page of your site showing where on the page visitors clicked and where they went to next. Very, very nice. And did I mention it's FREE? I actually paid money for a program that does only half of it. We live and learn...
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Originally posted by ripegiftsI would recommend submitting your sitemap to google. To do this, register for their webmaster tools. It allows you to upload an xml sitemap with all your pages, tells you when the last crawl was, how any pages were crawled, which search terms your site is coming up under and at what rank. It's pretty nifty. Not sure how to create an xml sitemap? This site will generate one for you for free.
I would also strongly recommend registering for Google Analytics . You just paste the code in your templates before the end of the body tag and you'll get highly detailed stats or your site, including an overlay of each page of your site showing where on the page visitors clicked and where they went to next. Very, very nice. And did I mention it's FREE? I actually paid money for a program that does only half of it. We live and learn...
That sounds excellent thank you! Done the sitemap stuff already
Although I thought other posts had suggested that Google Analytics code had actually messed up their page rankings?
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Originally posted by RuralWebTrue, although it is the google sitemap that is causing some sites more problems.
A quick search just revealed people having problems verifying their sites after they had used a custom 404 error page, which we too seem to get. The Google webmaster page suggests using a meta tag in the index page. Can we just add the meta tag into the template or will this cause problems? If we could do this without problems, into which template should the meta tag be added?
Many thanks
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