sam_h Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 A quick question about the submission of sitemaps. I have several wordpress blogs associated to with my domain. One wordpress plugin allows you to submit a sitemap for that particular blog to google. So i have a sitemap plugin installed and active on each blog, and I also have a sitemap on my main homepage that links to all of the blogs (this main sitemap I have added to my google webmasters account). I would have thought that the main sitemap would show all of the blogs and all of the links to the content in each blog (a lot of content all in all!) However it doesn't seem to be showing that at all....in fact, the only stats about my site and the sitemap for the whole thing is that I have 92 errors (which from what I can work out don't actually exist at all. The errors show that many pages on my site don't actually exist, where I know full well that they do!) This is beginning to confuse me a little and was wondering if anyone had any ideas as to why I seem to be having problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyMorgan Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 I wouldn't sweat it. From what I've seen, there is no advantage or disadvantage to using multiple sitemaps. If you have different sources generating the sitemaps, then split them up. It doesn't matter how many pages you submit, its very likely they won't all be spidered at once anyway. I've submitted sites with thousands of pages in their sitemap, and google only indexed 30-40 of them. Google includes pages at it's own pace, and you just have to accept it. As far as the errors don't sweat the false 404s. They'll usually be corrected on the next crawl or two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam_h Posted September 25, 2008 Author Share Posted September 25, 2008 thanks for the reply....has certainly put my mind at ease! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam_h Posted September 27, 2008 Author Share Posted September 27, 2008 hi again! just slightly concerned jeremy regarding the false 404's...the number has now gone up from 92 to 256 within the last couple of crawls. According to my webmaster account all the errors are missing a / between the directory and the date in my URL eg. example.com/directory2008/06/posttitle , instead of example.com/directory/2008/06/postitle In response to this, I have downloaded and looked through my sitemap (and looked at every URL!) and nothing seems to be wrong! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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