Comment by Tom on Fix 403 errors in Google Webmaster Tools
If you are willing to share your website address, maybe we could take a look? Make sure you don't have some funky server code requiring specific headers (Accept-Language), cookies etc.
View ArticleComment by Tom on Google webmaster tools reports "Network Unreachable" for...
Your webhost could lookup IPs to see if Googlebot: googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/09/…
View ArticleComment by Tom on Google search does not show sub-pages from my website
What's your website address? I could try take a look if any problem sticks out and catch my eye
View ArticleComment by Tom on When does Google Webmaster Tools re-evaluate re-submitted...
I think your problem is solved if you don't see any warnings/errors
View ArticleComment by Tom on mod_rewrite problems - redirect subdomain to different domain
They are completely ignored. I have removed all other redirects/rewrite stuff from the .htaccess file.
View ArticleComment by Tom on Trade off: Lower the number of URLs in sitemap from 43k to...
Many here seem to assume the script has access to the database. On the other hand, if it has to actually crawl all pages, it may purposely default to throttle down amount of pages/second...
View ArticleComment by Tom on Trade off: Lower the number of URLs in sitemap from 43k to...
Under all circumstances, a solution could still be to split the site-scan into multiple smaller projects, updating e.g. one sitemap file every day.
View ArticleComment by Tom on Could changing the download link and screenshots based on...
Windows screenshot + windows download is shown. (Only when Mac is positively identified through ua detection are mac download link + screenshot shown)
View ArticleComment by Tom on Could changing the download link and screenshots based on...
Another problem is showing the screenshot. Would look weird in tabs I think. However, I understand that it could be a possible solution by simply changing the default selected tab through e.g. JS code....
View ArticleComment by Tom on How do you get a permanent link for Vimeo hosted videos for...
Upvoting. The situation is I am helping one generate a video sitemap of a website using Vimeo. In all my pas experiments #1 is temporary/expires. #2 not satisfactory or a least ideal for video...
View ArticleAnswer by Tom for & in sitemap links, are they correct?
You can also convince yourself by checking this sitemaps and ampersands articleofficial XML sitemaps protocol pageYou can't really argue against the official xml sitemaps protocol page :)
View ArticleAnswer by Tom for How to create a good sitemap for dynamic website
You could consider A1 Sitemap Generator. It will calculate priority values based on internal linking. (Worth a try maybe. Otherwise just ignore the priority value.)
View ArticleAnswer by Tom for Yahoo sitemap validation
(Bit late but here goes)Yahoo (or BING now) supports XML sitemaps protocol, but not the Google image sitemaps extension
View ArticleAnswer by Tom for Broken URL Finder?
You could also try A1 Website Analyzer (Windows tool, but can run in VMWare/Fusion under Mac) It can tell you of all URL references site-wide (e.g. which pages link to a 404 URL + usually also line...
View ArticleAnswer by Tom for What are some client-side sitemap generators?
You could consider trying A1 Sitemap Generator. Just make sure to uncheck "simplified easy mode". Then you can control the crawler with the output and analysis filters handling URLs matching with...
View ArticleAnswer by Tom for XML Sitemaps, what should they link to?
@TomFor a forum I would make sure to filter off (both in analysis and output filters) e.g. user profile pages and similar. Only include real discussion topics/pages.@GauravThe max URLs per XML sitemap...
View ArticleAnswer by Tom for How to inform Google that a site is back up
If owner hasn't changed midway through, I think there's a good chance it will bounce back. Register it in Google Webmaster Tools. Add some fresh links to it etc. It will probably take some days or...
View ArticleAnswer by Tom for Google doesn't index a subdomain. What can be the problem...
Have you checked the site with a link checker? (xenu, a1 website analyzer or whatever. At least a1wa obeys nofollow, noindex and robots.txt - not 100% sure about xenu)
View ArticleAnswer by Tom for Website Design; SEO Dilemma
Are you sure you can't not use CSS styles for some headers? Maybe with background image? And add some real visible text as well? If you tweak the design a little? There must be some place in your...
View ArticleAnswer by Tom for Resetting Google's data for the website
Are you 100% sure it's necessary? Bad repuation requires you did some outright nasty black hat seo and spam'ish stuff, and not just poor design, adding/removing pages etc.Most likely, all problems with...
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