Submitting Sitemap to Google

Hi everyone, I just watched a lynda.com video which said to submit a sitemap to Google, all you needed to do was add sitemap.xml after the web address (in the appropriate box, within Google Webmaster Tools, in add a sitemap screen) and Google would be able to find it. When I did that, I got an error saying Google couldn't find it.
I've done the websites in question in Muse and they are hosted through Business Catalyst.
Is there another way to do that?
Thank you,
Annette

Both the sites are over an year old by creation date. Earlier in those days, site admins could easily disable the sitemap from their admin panel. The option is still there but is not directly accessible so that the user doesn't disable the option by mistake. For all new sites you create in BC now, sitemap.xml is enabled by default (and with the disable option hidden) so its quite unlikely that you would make this mistake.

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Does anyone know what's happening here?
Thanks!
Alan

Have you upgraded your BC site and added your domain to the site as well? Please refer this two part tutorial here: http://www.adobekb.com/launching_pt01.html and http://www.adobekb.com/launching_pt02.html
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Good morning,
I am having an issue when trying to submit a sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools - It is coming back with the error 'Network unreachable: robots.txt unreachableWe were unable to crawl your Sitemap because we found a robots.txt file at the root of your site but were unable to download it. Please ensure that it is accessible or remove it completely.'
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Hi Tom, sorry for the delay
I found some known issue for these errors, according to google webmaster tools
This can happen when Googlebot encounters a time-out or other network related issue when requesting a file from your site, and thus is forced to abandon the request. This can be caused by one or more of the following:
Excessive page load times due to dynamic pages taking too long to respond
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The hosting server is blocking Google's web-crawler
A DNS configuration issue.
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Submitting Sitemaps

My site was made in Muse and is hosted with Business Catalyst. I now want to submit a sitemap to Google using the Google webmaster tools. I can create a sitemap using third party tools like XML Sitemaps Generator. But now I'm supposed to upload the file to the "root directory." How do I do this with this scenario when I am publishing directly from muse?

Hello SarahSchwartz,
You can login to your admin console of your site, for example you own domain.com, then you need to go to domain.com/admin and log in with your ID & password. Then you can click on the "Help & Support" link on the top right corner and in the opening page scroll to the bottom where you will find the "FTP Configuration" settings.
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I'm sorry, I mistakenly formerly entered this topic as a post on a previously answered question regarding Google Keywords. I have more questions on this topic.
I have two questions:
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URLs not followed
When we tested a sample of the URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some URLs were not accessible to Googlebot because they contained too many redirects. Please change the URLs in your Sitemap that redirect and replace them with the destination URL (the redirect target). All valid URLs will still be submitted.
2. How do I refresh my iweb sitemap?
I'm a genuine newbie, and don't know anything about html.
Thanks for any help.

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http://www.mirroroftheuniverse.com/Contact.html
http://www.mirroroftheuniverse.com/Buy.html
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Some of the links on the "Buy" page are there because these sites link to mine and the site owners have requested a link to theirs. This particular product is listed on 60+ sites so I can't possibly put them all in although, in a perfect world, I would take the time to do so!
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Both "http://web.me.com/username/" & "http://web.me.com/username/websitename/" link to the "Enter" Pg. of my website. If you refer back to my first reply to you on this post (the Rage Support Suggestion), I submitted the 2nd URL (above) to Google Webmaster Tools and this time was able to verify it, and access a Dashboard. But when I entered the this 2nd URL into the Sitemap entry field, same results: "404 not found." Days ago I suggested to the Rage Support guy that MobileMe Support told me "they blocked spiders" and basically discouraged its users from being involved with Google's Tools. The Rage guy assured me I was "confused & mistaken, that most of their Sitemap Automator users were with MobileMe," he then offered to solve the problem if I sent my Google Login info. I didn't write back.
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"Can anyone help me with submitting my site to google.
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Hey there,
I had to edit your post because it was being flagged as spam by the system.
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i see there are some extensions available for creating google
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> is it xml and Sitemap 9.0 compliant.
>
> i see there are some extensions available for creating
google sitemap
> files,
> but is that necessary?
>
> if not, what kind of sitemap file is created with
dreamweaver's built in
> tools?
>
> thanks in advance,
>
>
>

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Google Indexing problem

I really need some help - I created this site in DW:
www.napatouristguide.com.
I submitted it to google, verified it, added a sitemap, and
waited a week so far. It shows that it found 15 urls in the
sitemap, and indexed 4. However, the only way you can find the site
in google is if you google the actual url. If you do any keywords,
including the title of the site, it comes back with nothing. (If
you do this you might see my original test pages which I posted
under another site I do, www.localwally.com).
Today, I accessed google webmaster tools and it show 31 404
errors. Many of the links are old links with old urls (I changed
them a few days ago based on the recommendation of a google faq to
not use "_" to separate words). However, some of the rejected pages
are actual live pages, such as my index page. When you click on the
"linked from" data, it shows it came from the sitemap. I originally
thought it did this because I changed the sitemap, but the
index.html file did not change names, nor a number of others which
also showed as 404.
Additionally, someone else on the google forum is telling me
that when he types in www.napatouristguide.com he gets a blank
page! When I do it, I get the actual page.
Could someone please help me figure out what I need to do? I
realize this is a DW forum, but I am hoping someone out there takes
pity on me since it took me 15 months to learn DW and write this
site and now it feels like I am totally lost.
Gary

Hello,
I had no trouble seeing the page or the links.
Take a look at:
http://whois.domaintools.com/napatouristguide.com
If you expand the "SEO Text Browser" window, you'll see how
Google sees your
page.
The content looks good.
I do see 1 H1 tag that matches keywords in the Title and page
content, which
is good, but there are no other H2, H3, etc.
"The Best Hotels, etc" text could be in an H2 tag, the
keyword there being
Napa.
The words within these tags should be relevant" and don't
"Overdo it". For
example, using Napa in every single one.
In the often secret world of what helps rank, it also doesn't
hurt to add
ALT tags with a description to your images and titles to your
menu links.
IMHO, one of the keys to SEO is the number of relevant sites
that link to
yours.
This is believed to be a very large factor in ranking.
Stay away from sites devoted to simply linking to sites.
These aren't relevant and you might even get penalized for
this.
You can look in Google's webmaster tools to see sites that
link to yours.
Also, on the Google home page, you can search for
link:napatouristguide.com.
I did that and it showed no sites with links to yours.
If that's the case, or Google just hasn't spidered sites
linked to yours
yet, that's likely the reason you aren't showing up in the
first "x" amount
of search results.
Also, you need to consider how many sites out there use Napa
as a keyword.
The more "unique" your keywords, the smaller the competition
in the search
results.
Napa Guide and Napa have millions of competing sites, and
it's not just Napa
Valley..it's Napa Auto Parts and so on.
You might consider using Napa Valley and even California in
the title
instead of just Napa.
Use Napa Valley in your page content and not just Napa.
You can use Google's adword program to generate a list of
keywords that are
indexed for other sites using Napa, and get a better idea of
what works and
what sites there are that are unrelated to Napa Valley using
keywords
similar to yours. You don't need to buy ads, you can just set
it up.
As far as the Sitemap.xml, yours looks OK.
You should definitely resubmit it, once you've tested all the
links in it.
Sometimes it's a few hours, other times it's days or longer
to show it's
been crawled.
I have a a few sites with good positioning that only have
half the links in
the sitemap indexed, 600 of 1000 links in one example.
I don't think that's uncommon, and it even states in Webtools
that it's not
an error if links in the sitemap are not indexed.
You only have a few links though, so I would think the
majority would be
linked.
I would say the biggest thing to focus on right now is to get
you site
linked to from other relevant sites.
Relevant meaning tourism sites, wine tasting, Napa Valley
local sites, etc.
The way the link to your site is defined on the other site is
important.
-"Click Here"- as a link to your site isn't worth much to the
search engine.
-Click here for a great "Napa Tourism Guide"-, where Napa
Tourism Guide is
the link, is worth something.
You want to use your keywords in the link.
Image links are definitely not worth much.
Hope this helps.
Take care,
Tim
"garynng" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
>I really need some help - I created this site in DW:
>www.napatouristguide.com.
>
> I submitted it to google, verified it, added a sitemap,
and waited a week
> so
> far. It shows that it found 15 urls in the sitemap, and
indexed 4.
> However,
> the only way you can find the site in google is if you
google the actual
> url.
> If you do any keywords, including the title of the site,
it comes back
> with
> nothing. (If you do this you might see my original test
pages which I
> posted
> under another site I do, www.localwally.com).
>
> Today, I accessed google webmaster tools and it show 31
404 errors. Many
> of
> the links are old links with old urls (I changed them a
few days ago based
> on
> the recommendation of a google faq to not use "_" to
separate words).
> However,
> some of the rejected pages are actual live pages, such
as my index page.
> When
> you click on the "linked from" data, it shows it came
from the sitemap. I
> originally thought it did this because I changed the
sitemap, but the
> index.html file did not change names, nor a number of
others which also
> showed
> as 404.
>
> Additionally, someone else on the google forum is
telling me that when he
> types in www.napatouristguide.com he gets a blank page!
When I do it, I
> get
> the actual page.
>
> Could someone please help me figure out what I need to
do? I realize this
> is
> a DW forum, but I am hoping someone out there takes pity
on me since it
> took me
> 15 months to learn DW and write this site and now it
feels like I am
> totally
> lost.
>
> Gary
>

How to do a sitemap

Hey guys, i was reading online that submitting a sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools is a good idea. But how do i go about doing so? Help is appreciated, thanks

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<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
</url>
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<loc>http://oldtoad.net/Demo_2/Widget-MMeQT.html</loc>
<lastmod>2012-02-16T18:32:31+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
</url>
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<lastmod>2012-02-16T18:32:08+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://oldtoad.net/Demo_2/Widgets-UTube.html</loc>
<lastmod>2012-02-16T18:33:10+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://oldtoad.net/Demo_2/Widget-Window.html</loc>
<lastmod>2012-02-16T18:32:49+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://oldtoad.net/Demo_2/Widget-QTMovie.html</loc>
<lastmod>2012-02-16T18:32:35+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
</url>
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<lastmod>2012-02-16T18:32:46+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
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<lastmod>2012-02-16T18:31:58+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
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<loc>http://oldtoad.net/Demo_2/More-Audio.html</loc>
<lastmod>2012-02-16T18:32:14+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
</url>
<url>
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<lastmod>2012-02-16T18:31:56+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://oldtoad.net/Demo_2/DateText.html</loc>
<lastmod>2012-02-16T18:31:41+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://oldtoad.net/Demo_2/Reunion.html</loc>
<lastmod>2012-02-16T18:32:16+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://oldtoad.net/Demo_2/Embedsite.html</loc>
<lastmod>2012-02-16T18:31:46+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://oldtoad.net/Demo_2/Embedsite2.html</loc>
<lastmod>2012-02-16T18:31:47+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://oldtoad.net/Demo_2/Keynote.html</loc>
<lastmod>2012-02-16T18:32:11+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://oldtoad.net/Demo_2/RTJ.html</loc>
<lastmod>2012-02-13T23:28:45+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
</url>
</urlset>

IWeb and Google

Dear iWebbers,
I have published a new site made in iWeb on my personal domain. Now Google doesn't seem to find my site anymore. I would very much appreciate any tips or solutions.
Thanks, Jeroen

It looks like your website is called Site_2 in iWeb so the sitemap.xml should go inside the folder of that name and its URL will be...
http://web.mac.com/joegramm/Site_2/sitemap.xml
You would be better to name your site JoeGramm or Joe_Gramm or Joe.Gramm.
Once you have submitted your sitemap to Google and had it verified, the spiders then crawl your text - they can't look at photos! You need to put your keywords like Joe Gramm, Upholstery etc in the text on your pages.
As far as I know the masking stops Google but you'll find that out for sure if you try to them to verify using that URL.
I use the application Google Sitemap Automator to create sitemaps.
I just read your latest post while writing this.

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