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Sitemaps and Google Verify - Anjelina

Anjelina — Wed, 14 May 2008 23:25:02 +0100

Hi! I am indeed getting message: "This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below." for my sitemap.xml. I am not panicking, but since it is displayed on my site, I'd prefer it to have the same style as the rest of my site. It is Wordpress Semiologic Pro custom theme. Is there any way I can achieve it?
Thanks,
Anjelina

Sitemaps and Google Verify - Patsy

Patsy — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:24:01 +0000

unfortunately, I do have <meta name etc as my site name now - anyone know how to remove it?!

Cheers

Sitemaps and Google Verify - Roland

Roland — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:03:07 +0000

SORRY! just saw this advice from John:
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On Wednesday, February 6 2008, 11:38 by JohnMu
Great job on making verification with our Webmaster Tools pain-free for the webmaster!

I just wanted to add a small comment regarding verifying a site for multiple owners: you will need to keep the verification code on your site for all users. We periodically re-confirm the status of all sites so if for instance you decide to buy a site from someone else, they will not have full access to the Webmaster Tools for that site when you remove their code.
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So I guess this means one should not have a line like this in their code:

Roland

Sitemaps and Google Verify - Roland

Roland — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:32:37 +0000

On On Thursday, January 17 2008, 22:49 by Eirik said "
The meta verify code is only checked once when you click verify on the Webmaster Tools page. If you have multiple domains, just repeat the process with each domain."

About "The meta verify code is only checked once "

Can one remove the verify line once Google has verifed it and accepted the site?

Or must it stay for as long as one uses the Google analytics?

Thanks

Roland

Sitemaps and Google Verify - Walt

Walt — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:49:25 +0000

Hi Daniele,

Verify and sitemap are two entirely different features. One is solely offered by Google, the other allows all search engines to more accurately define your site pages (although Google does make good use of this).

There are two ways to make use of sitemap. You can submit a file to Google or we can auto-generate one for you. We chose the latter as it enables other search engines to index your site, and not just Google.

You do not and should not be supplying Google with any files relating to sitemap. This is probably why you are getting an error. Although just in case I have misunderstood I'll highlight the steps required for enabling sitemaps:

Login to Google Webmaster Tools
Visit the Dashboard where you will see your website list
Beside your site click Add under the Sitemap column
In Choose Type, select 'Add General Web Sitemap'
In the field provided just add '/sitemap.xml' to the end of your web address
Save (Add...)

As for page ranking, while sitemap will improve the process, it not the be-all-and-end-all. Before we introduced sitemap at Christmas time last year we had many customers who for years, consistently ranked at number one in their category by using simple SEO procedures.

In a nutshell Daniele, we look after sitemap automatically for you so you don't need to supply Google with any files. Your page ranking can be improved by simple steps that have been outlined in other articles on this blog. Please just have a read of those articles and try some or all of the recommendations and you should see an improvement in the ranking of your site.

I hope that helps.

Walt

Sitemaps and Google Verify - JohnMu

JohnMu — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:38:43 +0000

Great job on making verification with our Webmaster Tools pain-free for the webmaster!

Sitemaps and Google Verify - daniele

daniele — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:19:52 +0000

hello, i want to ask why after verified my website on google webmaster tools, and check the sitemap informations, google tell me that they coldnt find my site map, andthis shows:
(General HTTP error: 404 not found
We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit),
please help me as becouse of this problem google still didnt give me a pagerank.
thanks

Sitemaps and Google Verify - Walt

Walt — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:45:18 +0000

Hi Matt,

Have you managed to correct the Google Verify problem yet? If not can you submit a query to Support so that we can log your site name and we can investigate for you.

Thanks

Sitemaps and Google Verify - Matt

Matt — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:06:15 +0000

Hi guys,

I need to resubmit my site to google because my (dipstick) friend added lots of keywords in white on a white background as a favour! Now, Google have removed me. Anyway, Google said they will invite me back once i have verified the site. However, copying/pasting the code string places the tag Google are looking for in a different part of the page, so it says I haven't done it. Any help would be appreciated.

Sitemaps and Google Verify - Eirik

Eirik — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:49:25 +0000

The meta verify code is only checked once when you click verify on the Webmaster Tools page. If you have multiple domains, just repeat the process with each domain.

Sitemaps and Google Verify - Ian Morris

Ian Morris — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:25:04 +0000

Hey Joe
Would just like to point one thing out...... With the google verify, it will only allow you to put 1 address in... The point im gettin at is if you have more than 1 domain name, like me i have 4, i want to be able to put all 4 of my domains on google, which it will then generate me a code per domain, so basically im asking could you edit the feature and allow sitemaker to accept more than 1 verify code.
Hope you understand what i mean. Thanks - keep up the good work!

Sitemaps and Google Verify - joe

joe — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:01:44 +0000

Hi Nick,

There are two places to set meta tags, either on the 'site information' panel in Admin, or on the 'page settings tab'. If you set them on the site information panel, these become the default tags for all of your pages, unless further tags have been set on the page settings panel, in which case these take priority. So the answer is that you can set tags on each page, but also set a default for any page without its specific tags. I hope that helps,

Joe

Sitemaps and Google Verify - Nick

Nick — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:50:20 +0000

Do the Meta tags link to the site in general or do you set different tags for each page??

Sitemaps and Google Verify - Cloth Diaper Canada

Cloth Diaper Canada — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:18:00 +0000

Thanks for listening guys. This type of moving forward is good for everyone. There is more to this than meets the eye. Excellent Job... now to verify 10+ sites....

Jeff

Sitemaps and Google Verify - joe

joe — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:17:11 +0000

Hi criptor,

This site map is really for search engines, not for navigation, so it's not indended to be viewed by your visitors. Thanks,

Joe

Sitemaps and Google Verify - criptor9

criptor9 — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:12:32 +0000

where can people see our sitemap?