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4:17 pm
April 8, 2011
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The Wall Street Chalkboard (Jeff)
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As a couple of you know, I've had my fair share of indexing/site maps problems. I am not quite sure if I understand the google webmaster site map section. There is a check mark next to my sitemap, but it says there are 52 urls submitted and 22 in web index. What does this mean? Does this show that it's working properly?
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5:20 pm
April 8, 2011
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JT_McGee
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Hm…I'm starting to think it might just be your sitemap that is crazy.
Compare this: http://wallstreetchalkboard.co…..itemap.xml
To this: http://moneymamba.com/sitemap.xml
I'm using this: http://4visions.nl/en/wordpres…..emap-feed/
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8:23 pm
April 8, 2011
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The Wall Street Chalkboard (Jeff)
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Do you think its because I use godaddy hosting, and create the sitemaps through their website? Do you recommend what you use?
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8:41 pm
April 8, 2011
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics
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XML sitemap feed JT recommended is a good one. Most of us use Google XML Sitemap plugin
http://wordpress.org/extend/pl…..generator/
If you have problem with one, use the other one. Both of them pretty much do the same thing…
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8:47 pm
April 8, 2011
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics
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Also, I just checked your sitemap, all your permalinks are of this form
http://wallstreetchalkboard.com/?p=124
You are missing out on a valuable SEO field. Change your permalink to
http://wallstreetchalkboard.com/date or category or just nothing]/[post title]
You can do that by
1) Installing a redirection plugin like Dean's Permalinks Migration
2) Changing the setting->permalinks setting pick one that includes title, some people say dates are bad and recommend http://url/title structure.
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9:12 pm
April 8, 2011
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The Wall Street Chalkboard (Jeff)
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics said:
Also, I just checked your sitemap, all your permalinks are of this form
http://wallstreetchalkboard.com/?p=124
You are missing out on a valuable SEO field. Change your permalink to
http://wallstreetchalkboard.com/date or category or just nothing]/[post title]
You can do that by
1) Installing a redirection plugin like Dean's Permalinks Migration
2) Changing the setting->permalinks setting pick one that includes title, some people say dates are bad and recommend http://url/title structure.
what would I set the old permalink structure as? /?p=123/ <— is that right?
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3:30 am
April 9, 2011
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Buy Like Buffett
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That's your old structure. The new one should either be date category name or just category and name. I prefer category and name.
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8:47 am
April 9, 2011
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Sustainable PF
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I've read you don't want to put the date in the URL as Google can then determine your content is old when it gets old.
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9:22 am
April 9, 2011
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics
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I think you have the default one selected in the permalink setting?
 
Change that to custom Structure
If you want category/posttitle , enter this - /%category%/%postname%/ But if you use multiple categories for each post, this is not a good one.
You could have /%post_id%/%postname%/ instead. That would give a unique identifier for easier crawling and have the title of your post as well.
Or you could just have /%postname%/ That is what a lot of people have.
Anything with the %postname% is better than the default.
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9:33 am
April 9, 2011
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics
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Sustainable PF said:
I've read you don't want to put the date in the URL as Google can then determine your content is old when it gets old.
SPF, another argument against just having the title is, it will easier for the crawler to work on a folder structure, find all the posts in 2009, then 12, then title… that is faster than searching 1000s of posts using just title, esp. if you have a similar title. I have not seen any concrete evidence about the speed (the crawler speed is generally super fast). But for the programmer in me, it makes sense, so I have kept the dates so far. But it is too long and there is also a talk that long urls are a disadvantage for SEO. I don't want to think too much about these, so I checked GRS, TSD and FMF… all of them had dates, if it is working for them, I decided it should work for me as well…If it doesn't I could always change later…
But it is personal preference.
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3:48 pm
April 9, 2011
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I would prefer Google to see my title name even if they do know it is old. Since I've changed mine, my Google traffic has gone up massively!
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3:58 pm
April 9, 2011
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics
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Derek, SPF is talking about the dates in the url. Title should def. be there whatever else (category, date, post id) is there or not in my opinion.
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