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Sitemaps and Google Verify - Gary

Gary — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:13:06 +0000

Hi Mike and Marc,

When generating the verification code for Webmaster Tools, you actually need to use the Meta Tag method - you can find this on the 'Alternate methods' tab.

We will be updating our FAQs to make this more clear - sorry for the confusion.

HTH,

Gary

Sitemaps and Google Verify - Marc

Marc — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:05:14 +0000

Hi Gary,

Having the exact same problem as Mike (point 42 above).
I am trying to verify my site on Google's Webmaster Tools service.

Thanks,
Marc

Sitemaps and Google Verify - Marc

Marc — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:05:14 +0000

Hi Gary,

Having the exact same problem as Mike (point 42 above).
I am trying to verify my site on Google's Webmaster Tools service.

Thanks,
Marc

Sitemaps and Google Verify - Gary

Gary — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:51:21 +0100

Hi Mike,

Can you confirm whether you are trying to verify your site for Google's Analytics or Webmaster Tools service?

Thanks,

Gary

Sitemaps and Google Verify - Mike

Mike — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:27:56 +0100

Ive tried adding the meta tag to my website, yet google still is recognising it. When i try to verify the site i just keep getting a message saying 'Verification failed for http://www.mikegraypt.co.uk/ using the HTML file method (less than a minute ago). Your verification file was not found.' And i just get a 'Not Found' message when i click the preview on the verification page. Does anyone know why this might be the case?
Thanks, mike
www.mikegraypt.co.uk

Sitemaps and Google Verify - Gary

Gary — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:41:18 +0100

Hi Pamela,

The Support team have replied to the ticket that you submitted for this.

HTH,

Gary

Sitemaps and Google Verify - pinkikitti

pinkikitti — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:47:56 +0100

i just bought a domain name from moonfruit thinking that i would justy put the website i already have associated with the domain i just bought. i already have a website but i just need to upload the files... what do i do. i have a few sites i built with moonfruit... BUT i have a site that is NOt built with moonfruit but i just want upload the files to my new blank domain i just bought from moonfruit. What do i do!?? Thought that i could just go to gahandi and do it from there but it told me to contact you. THank you Pamela Gordon ***concerned about my new domain www.pamelarouge.com

Sitemaps and Google Verify - web munki

web munki — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 17:35:20 +0000

The sitemap priority has very little impact on indexing and crawl in Google's eyes, its the same with the keyword tag these days, research has shown that leaving the keyword tag out completely has very little if no effect at all with google's indexing, if you want a pages importance to grow and want it in the index fast and with good positioning, i'd think more along the lines of incoming links and also link to it from your homepage with anchor text, I wouldn't lose sleep over the sitemap thing for SEO purposes, submiting a sitemap to Google is a good thing but Google will make its own mind up regarding page importance.

Sitemaps and Google Verify - Walt

Walt — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:18:06 +0000

Hi Duncan,

At present there is no way to modify the time period or priority. It may be something we consider for next year but as you're the first to request this we'll possibly review the SEO tools and panels before making any decisions. Thanks for the input though it certainly is something to investigate.

Walt

Sitemaps and Google Verify - Astormski

Astormski — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 09:49:10 +0000

Hello Moonfruit,
I've recently Google verified a website and added a sitemap.xml to the home page with a hourly frequency update and a 0.5 priority thinking that Google would be able to find this ok.
After reading through this section I understand now that the sitemap is auto generated from the menu page listings where you can hide any pages from the site map by going to the pages menu and unticking the page setting 'include this page in my site map'.
This is a much better solution but is there a way I can update the frequency to an hour and the priority to 0.5?
Please let me know if there is a way to change these settings.
Thanks in advance,
Duncan

Sitemaps and Google Verify - Walt

Walt — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:56:21 +0100

Hi,

While Bing might be a Microsoft product and a replacement for Live Search, it has only 'recently' been unveiled. We will monitor its popularity and look at support for the webmaster tools if the market penetration reaches a suitable adoption level. This is just to ensure our resources are channelled into the right developments. While we have only had a few requests for Bing support, we will watch it's pick-up closely.

Thanks for the request though.

- Walt

Sitemaps and Google Verify - MF SEO

MF SEO — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:55:53 +0100

Hi, could somebody from moonfruit please respond, Bing now have web master tools which work quite well with the ecommerce sites I manage, however this does require a Meta Tag just as google webmaster tools is there any way of adding this tag to MF/Sitemaker sites at the moment?

Thanks in advance

John

Sitemaps and Google Verify - Walt

Walt — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:07:28 +0100

Hi Andy,

I checked the URL you supplied in your post versus what you have on your account and they differ slightly. It may just be a typo in the URL on your post above - an extra 's' but it may be worth just checking what you have registered with Google.

If that checks out OK, can you please submit a ticket and give us more detail on the error message. Was it actually a XX4 error or a 4XX error - there is a difference and any additional info will help. For example a full error description, the list of URLs it applies to and any other details about your site or pages on it will help. As we have no access to your Analytics account, nor control over what Google do, we are running blind to some degree and need your help in establishing the facts so we can resolve this quickly.

Thanks

Sitemaps and Google Verify - Andy

Andy — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:37:06 +0100

I am getting a xx4 HTTP crawl error. What does this mean, and what should I do to correct it. I am still not getting indexed with google which is preventing my web site from operating.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Sitemaps and Google Verify - Barry

Barry — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:04:31 +0000

Hello
I've just set up AdSense for content on my site. I want to do the same for AdSense for search. However, I cant see any feature supporting it. Does this exist?

Thanks
Barry

Sitemaps and Google Verify - Walt

Walt — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:55:47 +0000

Hi Dave,

This was covered in the UPDATE 08/02/08 above. But to reiterate this, we do block specific directories for technical reasons and this will have no impact on your site being crawled. All other pages on your site are free to be indexed by the web crawlers.

UPDATE (08/02/08):

We have now modified the 'robots.txt' file to stop the web crawlers reading our application directories and throwing up 'errors'. However, now that we have blocked these directories you will probably see a report from Google that says: "URL restricted by robots.txt " and listing the same '.../_app/...' directories (as mentioned above). Google themselves recognise that some directories can be restricted for a logical reason and then simply continue crawling your site for valid content and links.

Just to reiterate, seeing a 'restricted' message is not a cause for alarm and this will not affect your site being indexed or impact your page rankings.

Sitemaps and Google Verify - dave

dave — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:21:29 +0000

Hi Folks

I've recived this from Google-any ideas.Thanks and apologies if already covered!
Google was unable to crawl the URL due to a robots.txt restriction. This can happen for a number of reasons. For instance, your robots.txt file might prohibit the Googlebot entirely; it might prohibit access to the directory in which this URL is located; or it might prohibit access to the URL specifically. Often, this is not an error. You may have specifically set up a robots.txt file to prevent us from crawling this URL. If that is the case, there's no need to fix this; we will continue to respect robots.txt for this file.

If a URL redirects to a URL that is blocked by a robots.txt file, the first URL will be reported as being blocked by robots.txt (even if the URL is listed as Allowed in the robots.txt analysis tool).

Sitemaps and Google Verify - Walt

Walt — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:40:50 +0000

Hi Dave,

Go to (Edit > Manage your site >) Admin > Site Information and if you haven't set this up you will see Sign up for Google Webmaster tools. Once signed up you can drop the code block into the field on the Google Webmaster Tools panel and save.

If you get stuck please contact Support and we will send you more details.

Thanks

Sitemaps and Google Verify - dave

dave — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:38:19 +0000

Return to your website and paste the code string into the blank field in the "Webmaster Tools" panel

I cant find the above - aplogies for my presumed stupidity but I just dont see where this would go!

Thanks

Dave

Sitemaps and Google Verify - jems

jems — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:01:55 +0000

I have submitted my sitemap ...with all the information as suggested by you guys ... but when i try to verify it in from webmaster tools in google ... i get a
"We've detected that your verification file returns a status of 404 (Not found) in the header"- message saying verification is "NOT VERIFIED" i have had a number of these.... in the past ... please advise