Archive for the 'Sitemaps' Category

To www or Not To www

One concern amongst new bloggers is whether or not to use the www extension on their site. (i.e. http://www.blogresourcesonline.com or http://blogresourcesonline.com). This is a matter of personal preference and either address will work fine in the blogosphere.
However, consistency is very important. You want your pages to be indexed by the search engines consistently. The [...]

Unforseen Trouble with my Google Sitemap

I successfully submitted my XML sitemap to Google and almost immediately all my stats disappeared. “Not available at this time”. I didn’t notice right away but over a few days my Google traffic went down to zero. I am now in the proverbial Google Sandbox.
I am hoping that this is a temporary blip. Perhaps submitting [...]

Creating a Google Sitemap

After successfully importing my blog from new Blogger to WordPress, I noticed that my new theme, Cutline, had the option to create a page called “Sitemap”. Wonderful! I immediately set this upĀ  and created a page to help readers navigate my site NeenMachine.com.
I also use Google Webmaster Tools. This is a bundle of tools that [...]