SmugMug Search Engine Optimization

GlassDarkly

Don't know how many of you have a use for this, but I just saw it ans thought it might be useful for someone:
http://photographers-seo.com/2009/09/15/smugmug-seo-tips/

Irrok

That is a great article. I have been putting i to good use with great results... here is a great tool I stumbled across that goes hand in hand with SEO http://seoforums.org/seo-tools/ Good luck to all who try and optimize their site...

-Best

OnFirePhotography

I have had my smug mug site for quite a few months now, but my site still hasnt been crawled by google or been indexed.

My site is http://www.onfirephotography.com , if you look at the source, im sure all the meta details and keywords are fine.

Ive been getting back links from various sites. What else can i do?

Andy

You can submit your sitemap in google webmaster tools and also specifically ask google to crawl you. Have you done that yet?

OnFirePhotography

yep, have google webmaster.

Have asked it to crawl and in the sitemaps it has red 'X's under status

Andy

OnFirePhotography wrote: »

yep, have google webmaster.

Have asked it to crawl and in the sitemaps it has red 'X's under status<img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/headscratch.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >

So you can submit your sitemaps or wait for google to get them from us.


you can get theurls from your site:

<sitemapindex xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/siteindex.xsd"&gt;
−
<sitemap>
−
<loc>
http://www.onfirephotography.com/sitemap-base.xml.gz
</loc>
<lastmod>2010-07-30T07:12:25Z</lastmod>
</sitemap>
−
<sitemap>
−
<loc>
http://www.onfirephotography.com/sitemap-galleries.xml.gz
</loc>
<lastmod>2010-07-30T07:12:30Z</lastmod>
</sitemap>
−
<sitemap>
−
<loc>
http://www.onfirephotography.com/sitemap-images.xml.gz
</loc>
<lastmod>2010-07-30T07:12:34Z</lastmod>
</sitemap>
</sitemapindex>

OnFirePhotography

How did you get those? where do i find them and what do i do with them?

Ive done sitemaps before for my other site that i wrote in css and it didnt involve any of this

Andy

OnFirePhotography wrote: »

How did you get those? where do i find them and what do i do with them?

Ive done sitemaps before for my other site that i wrote in css and it didnt involve any of this

http://www.onfirephotography.com/sitemap-index.xml

it contains the gzipped sitemap links you want to feed google, if you don't want to let our automated system handle it for you.

OnFirePhotography

ok cheers

OnFirePhotography

ok ive put them into google webmaster , the base and galleries.xml have a nice green tick but the images.xml is a red cross?

LichtenHansen

Sitemap-files - How often are they updated?
It is superb with the new sitemap-files.

However, I deleted some keywords more than a week ago, and the sitemap files are still not updated.

Do I have to do something special to update my sitemap, or it is a known bug?

My Sitemap file is http://lichtenhansen.smugmug.com/sitemap-base.xml

Keep up the good work.

Andy

LichtenHansen wrote: »

It is superb with the new sitemap-files.

However, I deleted some keywords more than a week ago, and the sitemap files are still not updated.

Do I have to do something special to update my sitemap, or it is a known bug?

My Sitemap file is http://lichtenhansen.smugmug.com/sitemap-base.xml

Keep up the good work.

You can feed Google a new sitemap via your webmaster tools, or wait for google to recrawl and re-get our sitemap. We've no control over how fast they do that. But you can input a new sitemap anytime you like.

LichtenHansen

Sitemap not updated

Andy wrote: »

You can feed Google a new sitemap via your webmaster tools, or wait for google to recrawl and re-get our sitemap. We've no control over how fast they do that. But you can input a new sitemap anytime you like.

I know, that I can re-summit my sitemap file anytime, but my sitemap file is not updated.
My question is: How do I update my sitemap file to reflect my actual site?
I deleted and added some keywords more than a week ago, but these changes are not in my sitemap: http://lichtenhansen.smugmug.com/sitemap-base.xml

OnFirePhotography

the sitemap-images.xml.gz still has a red cross next to it in webmaster tools, is this because something is wrong with it , or do i have to wait for google to crawl again or something?

Andy

OnFirePhotography wrote: »

the sitemap-images.xml.gz still has a red cross next to it in webmaster tools, is this because something is wrong with it , or do i have to wait for google to crawl again or something?

You can wait, or simply manually resubmit it in Google webmaster tools

http://www.onfirephotography.com/sitemap-images.xml.gz

OnFirePhotography

ive tried that, it says under status -

URL not allowed
This url is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location.

Andy

OnFirePhotography wrote: »

ive tried that, it says under status -

URL not allowed
This url is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location.

Are you doing it -exactly- like this?

OnFirePhotography

im getting this

Andy

OnFirePhotography wrote: »

im getting this

I'm specifically asking if you did as my screengrab shows

OnFirePhotography

yes, i added the sitemap as your screen grab shows, i click submit, a little clock appears then turns to a cross.

pilotdave

Same problem here, Andy. As you know, the file size of the sitemap exceeds Google's limits.

Dave

Andy

pilotdave wrote: »

Same problem here, Andy. As you know, the file size of the sitemap exceeds Google's limits.

Dave

We're looking into this with google.

OnFirePhotography

Any update on this?

Andy

OnFirePhotography wrote: »

Any update on this?

Not yet, when we have one, we'll give it. Thanks.

LichtenHansen

LichtenHansen wrote: »

I know, that I can re-summit my sitemap file anytime, but my sitemap file is not updated.
My question is: How do I update my sitemap file to reflect my actual site?
I deleted and added some keywords more than a week ago, but these changes are not in my sitemap: http://lichtenhansen.smugmug.com/sitemap-base.xml

3 weeks have passed since I updated my keywords. sitemap-base.xml still not updated.
Any SM update on this?

Andy

LichtenHansen wrote: »

3 weeks have passed since I updated my keywords. sitemap-base.xml still not updated.
Any SM update on this?

We don't control it - but you can submit the sitemap-base.xml file manually in webmaster controls if you wish.

LichtenHansen

Andy wrote: »

We don't control it - but you can submit the sitemap-base.xml file manually in webmaster controls if you wish.

Andy, please take a look at my sitemap file: http://lichtenhansen.smugmug.com/sitemap-base.xml
I deleted the keywords adeliae, adelie, adelie penguin, adult, agressive etc. more than 3 weeks ago. Those keywords are still present in the sitemap file.

rainforest1155

LichtenHansen wrote: »

Andy, please take a look at my sitemap file: http://lichtenhansen.smugmug.com/sitemap-base.xml
I deleted the keywords adeliae, adelie, adelie penguin, adult, agressive etc. more than 3 weeks ago. Those keywords are still present in the sitemap file.

If you take a look at your sitemap-index file, you can see when the sitemap was last updated:
http://lichtenhansen.smugmug.com/sitemap-index.xml
It'll take more time and there's no timeline for when sitemaps are updated. Our system updates them as fast as possible without causing any negative effect from search engines for submitting too many sitemaps too fast. Thanks for your patience and understanding.

Sebastian

LichtenHansen

rainforest1155 wrote: »

If you take a look at your sitemap-index file, you can see when the sitemap was last updated:
http://lichtenhansen.smugmug.com/sitemap-index.xml
It'll take more time and there's no timeline for when sitemaps are updated. Our system updates them as fast as possible without causing any negative effect from search engines for submitting too many sitemaps too fast. Thanks for your patience and understanding.

Sebastian

Thanks a lot for an honest answer.

However, this is a rather bad solution.

The idea of a sitemap is to tell Google which of your pages are important.
Most of the URL’s in my sitemap files no longer exists.
I suggest that you update the sitemap files much more often (real time or at least daily)

Submitting a sitemap is only relevant, if your sitemap files are updated in real time and want the latest changes indexed ASAP by Google.
Google download my sitemap files about once every week (without being submitted)
You could easily drop the submitting with the current sitemap update rate.

fabthi

Hi
I'd like to send my sitemap to Google too (www.imaginevenice.com) but , please bear with my ignorance, where should I find it? I looked in my source page but couldn't find it, or, at least, I probably don't know where to look at between all those lines of text

Andy

fabthi wrote: »

Hi
I'd like to send my sitemap to Google too (www.imaginevenice.com) but , please bear with my ignorance, where should I find it? I looked in my source page but couldn't find it, or, at least, I probably don't know where to look at between all those lines of text

http://www.imaginevenice.com/sitemap-index.xml contains all of your sitemaps.