Comments on: Successful Blogging Tips #06

By: kher Cheng Guan

kher Cheng Guan — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:31:35 +0000

I’m stuck at Step 2: After selected “Add General Site Web”, I typed in “atom.xml/” in the box provided. And this is the remark I got:
“The Sitemap must be located at http://so-stylo.blogspot.com/. To add a Sitemap at http://so-stylo.blogspot.com/atom.xml/, first add that site to your account and then click the Add a Sitemap link beside it.”

What should I do now?

By: Paolo

Paolo — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:10:26 +0000

Hi Garry,

Followed both your posts on and Meta Titles and Description and Site Map. The only thing is i have had a error 404 message saying can not index url as robots are restricting it.When i look at my Html code there is nothing written about robots, is there anything i can do to get google to index my blogpage

Regards

Paolo

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By: Erin

Erin — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:52:44 +0000

Ok, I just made a comment to thank-you but it didn’t show up (or I just didn’t do it right).
Anyway, thank-you for taking the time to do a step by step instruction (along with screenshots) on how to add metatags to get a blog verified with Google.
I appreciate it.
Erin
http://www.sharingmytwocents.com

By: K-IntheHouse

K-IntheHouse — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:43:52 +0000

Do you generate your sitemap with the “www” or without it? Also, do you set the preference in Webmaster tools for the preferred domain?
Paths don't match We've detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that includes the www prefix (for instance, http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml). However, the URLs listed inside your Sitemap don't use the www prefix (for instance, http://example.com/myfile.htm).
Thanks to Kyle, I do have the Permalink Redirect plugin installed in Wordpress and I might have to take a closer look at it and see if I need any of the setting changed in there.

By: Garry Conn

Garry Conn — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:40:23 +0000

What are some of the errors you are getting?

By: K-IntheHouse

K-IntheHouse — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:21:44 +0000

Thanks Garry!

By: K-IntheHouse

K-IntheHouse — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:20:55 +0000

I am at 80% now. Still have a few kinks to work out. Okay.. may be you can help me out a little with this!
I added a sitemap at http://www.shankrila.com/sitemap.xml (manually with the Google Sitemaps plugin) and uploaded it to Webmaster tools. I made the preferred domain as http://www.shankrila.com instead of shankrila.com. Or is it better to have it the other way around?
Google is finding some errors as the sitemaps file has some of the posts indexed as shankrila.com. I’m just learning how to work this magic.