Question about Sitemaps...

AzH

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#1 01-15-2008, 05:02 AM

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Question about Sitemaps...

I have the Google sitemap installed on my forum and each morning I get an email report about it. It says:

Google ping: Successful.
Yahoo ping: Successful.
Ask ping: Successful.
Moreover ping: Successful.

Does this mean the sitemap has been submitted to these search engines, or do I need to do it myself?

Thanks.

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#2 01-15-2008, 07:17 AM

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Re: Question about Sitemaps...

That means it has been successfully submitted to the search engines.

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#3 01-15-2008, 07:41 AM

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Re: Question about Sitemaps...

I agree. That's what you want to see.

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#4 01-15-2008, 08:51 AM

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Re: Question about Sitemaps...

Righto, here's another one on a similar subject. I cannot add my forum Lurking Mastermind to googles webmaster section. When I try I get this error message:

We've detected that your 404 (file not found) error page returns a status of 200 (Success) in the header.

This is the information it gives me about it: We've detected that your server returns a status of 200 (found successfully) for pages that don't exist.

But it means nothing to me. Any assistance? I cannot verify the site which means I cannot add my sitemap. :/

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#5 01-15-2008, 10:36 AM

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Re: Question about Sitemaps...

AzH, then you have to use the meta-tag verification method,
to get your site verified in google webmaster tools.

I too faced the same problem.

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AzH

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#6 01-15-2008, 11:19 AM

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Re: Question about Sitemaps...

I tried that option too, tried adding the meta tag to the top of the index.php file (couldn't think where else to go) and that just made everything crash. :s Not much luck, eh? Funny that another forum I have vBSEO on works fine.

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#7 01-15-2008, 05:51 PM

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Re: Question about Sitemaps...

add the meta verification in the header template

You can see that's how we had to do it on vbsetup as well

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#8 01-16-2008, 05:04 AM

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Re: Question about Sitemaps...

Cheers B. I'll try that see if I can get this bugger to work.

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#9 01-16-2008, 08:27 PM

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Re: Question about Sitemaps...

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Cheers B. I'll try that see if I can get this bugger to work.

And make sure you add it to your default skin, or else Google wont find it.

I stuck mine in the headinclude template

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AzH

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#10 01-17-2008, 10:37 AM

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Re: Question about Sitemaps...

Getting this error message:

The verification meta tag is in the wrong location on the page. It must be within the first <HEAD> section of the page.

We look for the meta tag in the page's HEAD section in the page's source. The HEAD section must be before the BODY section of the page. An example of correct placement is shown below.

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Your Title</TITLE>
<META name="verify-v1" content="String_we_ask_for">
</HEAD>
<BODY>

Naturally, being php and not html, I can't find the suggested location in my header template.

Suggestions??

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