How To Maximize Your Findability (Search Engine Stuff)

Andy

affdigphotos wrote: »

Warning or Error

Then if you click on the sitemap it gives you a list of the problems

Need to see a sample of the problem - ok? I already see the 'lasmod' error, do you see others? Thanks!

jasonscottphoto

Galleries xml:



Images xml:

Turbo V6 Camaro

same here

one fix is

lasmod>2010-07-29T12:22:31Z/lasmod

should be lastmod

seems the "t" was forgot kinda funny !! someone is not going to live that down I know becuase its somthing i would do lol

Invalid XML tag
This tag was not recognized. Please fix it and resubmit.
Parent tag: image
Tag: keyword
Problem detected on: Jul 29, 2010

seem tage should read "image" vise "keyword" ?

Andy

We fixed the lasmod typo and the other error as well. All should be well, going forward! Let us know of any problems.

jasonscottphoto

What happened to ones for the images and the galleries?

Andy

affdigphotos wrote: »

What happened to ones for the images and the galleries?

I'm sure they'll appear again. Wait for google

jasonscottphoto

Andy wrote: »

I'm sure they'll appear again. Wait for google

Google finds that stuff right away in webmaster tools if you refresh. They don't seem to be in the sitemap itself anymore scratch

Andy

affdigphotos wrote: »

Google finds that stuff right away in webmaster tools if you refresh. They don't seem to be in the sitemap itself anymore scratch

Look in here http://www.jasonscottphoto.com/sitemap-base.xml

jasonscottphoto

Andy wrote: »

Look in here http://www.jasonscottphoto.com/sitemap-base.xml

OK, but before you had separate xml files for the galleries and images. Are those gone now?

Andy

affdigphotos wrote: »

OK, but before you had separate xml files for the galleries and images. Are those gone now?

We made some changes so all is well. Watch your tools and let us know if you see any errors. Thanks.

jasonscottphoto

Andy wrote: »

We made some changes so all is well. Watch your tools and let us know if you see any errors. Thanks.

Looks like the images xml is using username.smugmug.com addresses and google doesn't like that. It wants the url for the image to match the custom domain, otherwise it says it is not allowed in the sitemap for your url.

Lou Gonzalez

Andy wrote: »

In fact, YES! :smo We just added them, this week. We needed a way to let Google, Bing, and other search engines know what pages to crawl on your sites. So now we build, store, and submit sitemaps for each of you. The 'WorldSearchable' user setting determines whether we make and serve sitemaps at all. And album (Public, Password, WorldSearchable, HideOwner) and Image (Status, Hidden) determine whether certain pages show up in the sitemaps.

In other words, you need to to nothing to make them work, we just obey your current searchability settings <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/clap.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >

Chris, your sitemap would look like this:

http://www.chrishumphreys.net/sitemap-index.xml
(view in a modern browser)

If you're not Chris, stick /sitemap-index.xml after your site URL <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/deal.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >

In that index file you can see (and inspect if you like) the other sitemap URLs that we feed the search engines.

Thanks for everyone's patience on this

Hi Andy,

I entered http://photos.lifesharephoto.com/sitemap-index.xml into Webmaster Tools. I get a red X. When I click on it I get the following information:

<table class="grid" id="children"><tbody><tr class="first even"><td class="leftmost null">sit<wbr>ema<wbr>p-b<wbr>ase<wbr>.xm<wbr>l
</td> <td class=" null"></td> <td class=" null">Sitemap</td> <td class=" null">Jul 30, 2010</td> <td class=" number">1,023</td> <td class="rightmost number">392</td> </tr> <tr class="odd"> <td class="leftmost null"><script type="text/javascript"> wmt.common.display.url.writeUrlElement( document, "sitemap-galleries.xml"); </script>sit<wbr>ema<wbr>p-g<wbr>all<wbr>eri<wbr>es.<wbr>xml
</td> <td class=" null"></td> <td class=" null">Sitemap</td> <td class=" null">Jul 30, 2010</td> <td class=" number">32,131</td> <td class="rightmost number">1,197</td> </tr> <tr class="even"> <td class="leftmost null"><script type="text/javascript"> wmt.common.display.url.writeUrlElement( document, "sitemap-images.xml"); </script>sit<wbr>ema<wbr>p-i<wbr>mag<wbr>es.<wbr>xml
</td> <td class=" null"></td> <td class=" null">--</td> <td class=" null">Jul 30, 2010</td> <td class=" number">--</td> <td class="rightmost number">--</td></tr></tbody></table>

Looks like base and galleries work but not images. When I click on the sitemap-images.xml, I get the following errors.

<table class="grid" id="problems"><thead><tr><th class="header">Line</th> <th class="header">Status</th> <th class="header rightmost">Details</th></tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr class="first even"> <td class="leftmost null"></td> <td class=" null">-</td> <td class=" null">Sitemap file size error
Your Sitemap exceeds the maximum file size limit. Please create multiple Sitemaps containing fewer URLs to meet the file size limit.</td> <td class="rightmost null">Problem detected on: Jul 30, 2010
</td> </tr> <tr class="odd"> <td class="leftmost null"></td> <td class=" null">2</td> <td class=" null">Sitemap is HTML
Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap format instead.</td> <td class="rightmost null">Tag: html
Problem detected on: Jul 30, 2010
</td></tr></tbody></table>
Any ideas on how to fix this?

Andy

Affdig and Lou - both of these issues have been fixed. Google will pick them up, or you can manually tell Google to go get the Sitemap index file - your call.

Thanks!

Turbo V6 Camaro

mine is still wrong, it must bee the only the custom domain i guess (i just resubmitted it about 5 minutes ago and this is what i got )

URL not allowed
This url is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location. URL: <script type="text/javascript"> wmt.common.display.url.writeUrlElement( document, "http://wideshutphotography.smugmug.com/Belleville-Family-Sportsplex/Soccer/LittleTykes/0000000/654690322_RtU3T-M-1.jpg", "http://wideshutphotography.smugmug.com/Belleville-Family-Sportsplex/Soccer/LittleTykes/0000000/654690322_RtU3T-M-1.jpg"); </script>htt<wbr>p:/<wbr>/wi<wbr>des<wbr>hut<wbr>pho<wbr>tog<wbr>rap<wbr>hy.<wbr>smu<wbr>gmu<wbr>g.c<wbr>om/<wbr>Bel<wbr>lev<wbr>ill<wbr>e-F<wbr>ami<wbr>ly-<wbr>Spo<wbr>rts<wbr>ple<wbr>x/S<wbr>occ<wbr>er/<wbr>Lit<wbr>tle<wbr>Tyk<wbr>es/<wbr>000<wbr>000<wbr>0/6<wbr>546<wbr>903<wbr>22_<wbr>RtU<wbr>3T-<wbr>M-1<wbr>.jp<wbr>g

Problem detected on: Jul 30, 2010

jasonscottphoto

Mine is working fine now

Edit:

If you previously submitted http://www.jasonscottphoto.com/sitemap-images.xml now it is http://www.jasonscottphoto.com/sitemap-images.xml.gz instead.

Same with the others. http://www.jasonscottphoto.com/sitemap-index.xml now points to

http://www.jasonscottphoto.com/sitemap-galleries.xml.gz

and

http://www.jasonscottphoto.com/sitemap-base.xml.gz

Google webmaster tools seems happy with these on my site. And I didn't have to submit anything - it found them itself.

Turbo V6 Camaro

my image site-map is still broke i can email the file of the errors to support if that would help?

basically they all wideshutphotography.smugmug.com that's the error

rsquared

I'm right there with Andrew (Turbo V6 Camaro) ... Google doesn't like the images file because they all point to the rsquared.smugmug.com address instead of rsquaredphotography.com

Andy

If you're seeing an error, standby, Google just needs to re-crawl thanks.

rsquared

Andy wrote: »

If you're seeing an error, standby, Google just needs to re-crawl thanks.

I'm still seeing a problem with http://www.rsquaredphotography.com/sitemap-images.xml

The image:landing_page_loc lines points to http://www.rsquaredphotography.com/ but the loc lines still point to http://rsquared.smugmug.com/

And it's not that Google hasn't re-indexed, you can go straight to the xml and see for yourself. (I mean that for anyone having the problem... Just go look at yourdomain.com/sitemap-images.xml)

Lou Gonzalez

rsquared wrote: »

I'm still seeing a problem with http://www.rsquaredphotography.com/sitemap-images.xml

The image:landing_page_loc lines points to http://www.rsquaredphotography.com/ but the loc lines still point to http://rsquared.smugmug.com/

And it's not that Google hasn't re-indexed, you can go straight to the xml and see for yourself. (I mean that for anyone having the problem... Just go look at yourdomain.com/sitemap-images.xml)

I'm still seeing problems with sit<wbr>ema<wbr>p-i<wbr>mag<wbr>es.<wbr>xml

I submitted it on 7/30 and webmaster tools says Google checked it yesterday. So re-indexing didn't work. I'm still getting the following errors.

<table class="grid" id="problems"><tbody><tr class="first even"><td class="leftmost null"></td> <td class=" null">-</td> <td class=" null">Sitemap file size error
Your Sitemap exceeds the maximum file size limit. Please create multiple Sitemaps containing fewer URLs to meet the file size limit.</td> <td class="rightmost null">Problem detected on: Aug 3, 2010
</td></tr></tbody></table>

Any other suggestions???<wbr>

Andy

Lou Gonzalez wrote: »

Any other suggestions??

Yes, wait for Google.

http://photos.lifesharephoto.com/sitemap-index.xml

clearly points at

http://photos.lifesharephoto.com/sitemap-images.xml.gz

which google will parse.

Andy

rsquared wrote: »

I'm still seeing a problem with http://www.rsquaredphotography.com/sitemap-images.xml

The image:landing_page_loc lines points to http://www.rsquaredphotography.com/ but the loc lines still point to http://rsquared.smugmug.com/

And it's not that Google hasn't re-indexed, you can go straight to the xml and see for yourself. (I mean that for anyone having the problem... Just go look at yourdomain.com/sitemap-images.xml)

Our team says that Google still has to do their thing with your site - please wait for them it will right itself.

Turbo V6 Camaro

Andy wrote: »

Our team says that Google still has to do their thing with your site - please wait for them it will right itself.

i deleted mine from Google and submitted it manually and i'm still get the errors in my last post

rsquared

Andy wrote: »

Our team says that Google still has to do their thing with your site - please wait for them it will right itself.

Except that I can (and have) resubmit my site to Google, and it still gets the error. Plus I can go and view the sitemap-images.xml on my own and see that all the image location tags point to my rsquared.smugmug.com domain. All the other sitemaps (-base and -galleries) point to www.rsquaredphotography.com.

I don't understand what you guys thing Google still has to do with my site. The xml you are generating seems to be pointing back to the wrong domain.

Andy

rsquared wrote: »

Except that I can (and have) resubmit my site to Google, and it still gets the error. Plus I can go and view the sitemap-images.xml on my own and see that all the image location tags point to my rsquared.smugmug.com domain. All the other sitemaps (-base and -galleries) point to www.rsquaredphotography.com.

I don't understand what you guys thing Google still has to do with my site. The xml you are generating seems to be pointing back to the wrong domain.

And we'll update that - it just takes some time (we have a lot of customers!) .

Thanks.

jachang

Andy wrote: »

And we'll update that - it just takes some time (we have a lot of customers!) .

Thanks.

I'm getting the same errors on sitemap-images.xml.gz

Everything is pointing to jeanachang.smugmug.com instead of my custom domain. I know you said to others that these things will be corrected, but I just wasn't sure if those of us with the problem had to notify you that we're having the problem in order for you to know about it and fix it.:D

Thanks.

Jean

gbrookshaw

Hi Andy,

How often (roughly) does SmugMug update the contents of the sitemap-images.xml and sitemap-galleries.xml files?

Or is it something we can initiate? (mine are out of date)

(sorry if I've missed this info earlier in thread!)

Thanks

smilenj

Hello -

I manage the SMUG in San Francisco and am looking for a rock star SEO speaker. If you know anyone, please forward me their contact info.

Thanks.

Joey

Chris H

Andy wrote: »

In fact, YES! :smo We just added them, this week. We needed a way to let Google, Bing, and other search engines know what pages to crawl on your sites. So now we build, store, and submit sitemaps for each of you. The 'WorldSearchable' user setting determines whether we make and serve sitemaps at all. And album (Public, Password, WorldSearchable, HideOwner) and Image (Status, Hidden) determine whether certain pages show up in the sitemaps.

In other words, you need to to nothing to make them work, we just obey your current searchability settings

Chris, your sitemap would look like this:

http://www.chrishumphreys.net/sitemap-index.xml
(view in a modern browser)

If you're not Chris, stick /sitemap-index.xml after your site URL

In that index file you can see (and inspect if you like) the other sitemap URLs that we feed the search engines.

Thanks for everyone's patience on this

Yay!

gecko0

Hi-

I'm setting up my GA and GTools...I just added the sitemap entry and it errors due to the URLs (hundreds of URL errors):

<TABLE id=problems class=grid><THEAD><TR><TH class=header>Line</TH><TH class=header>Status</TH><TH class="header rightmost">Details</TH></TR></THEAD><TBODY><TR class="first even"><TD class="leftmost null"></TD><TD class=" null">4</TD><TD class=" null">URL not allowed
This url is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location.</TD><TD class="rightmost null">URL: <SCRIPT type=text/javascript> wmt.common.display.url.writeUrlElement( document, "http://brian-photos.smugmug.com/Art/Pratt-Clay-Studio/10939261_rCWQW/1/764180289_SCzjz", "http://brian-photos.smugmug.com/Art/Pratt-Clay-Studio/10939261_rCWQW/1/764180289_SCzjz"); </SCRIPT>htt<WBR>p:/<WBR>/br<WBR>ian<WBR>-ph<WBR>oto<WBR>s.s<WBR>mug<WBR>mug<WBR>.co<WBR>m/<WBR><WBR><WBR><WBR><WBR><WBR><WBR><WBR><WBR><WBR><WBR><WBR><WBR><WBR><WBR><WBR><WBR><WBR>

Problem detected on: Aug 8, 2010
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

The URL is using my old site name (brian-photos), which was updated to "www.dynamicapertures.com" last week. The sitemap entry I used was:

http://www.dynamicapertures.com/sitemap-base.xml

Is there anything I need to do, or is the "brian-photos" something that SmugMug can cleanup on the backend for me?

Thanks!