I checked today using site:mysite keywords and not one of my listings are showing up for any search terms, they do show up later under the website name but nothing as a search term.
If any one knows of where to find the latest seo guide that would be great.
But for now I found a few problems
1. site xml exporting in http not https (found a fix in forum questions) EDIT / BIG ERROR HERE > when you do this any existing listing that are listed in all viewers in your admin panel disappear and you are unable to view any of them to edit make changes or anything, they simply disappear? maybe this step is not required ?
EDIT: from tests so for this does not look like it will make much impact but still undecided on this
2. my xml is full of unused hidden and non active categories ? I have read some things in posts but they are old posts, so not sure if they apply to 4.5.2 ? so how do I get rid of these ?
EDIT: yes get rid of crap in your xml
3. I managed to read about adding information to the htaccess file if you uploaded xml, so I checked this, It seems that it has added the bottom 3 rows of data to the file automatically ? but they are there. But the first part of the update says to find
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.html)$ [NC]
with
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.html|\.xml|\.txt)$ [NC]
Now on looking none of these options are in the htaccess file at all, both are missing / non existent ? so my question is, should it be in there and if so where should it be ? and is this causing none of my listing to be listed with google or are there other problems I need to be aware of ?
thanks
Pete
\/ EDIT: flynax have not updated not and new versions do not need worry about this as it is already taken care of
Install the plugin
Replace the string in .htaccess file:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.html)$ [NC]
with
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.html|\.xml|\.txt)$ [NC]
Add a new rule to the bottom of .htaccess file:
#Google and Yahoo sitemap
RewriteRule ^sitemap([0-9]*)?.xml$ /plugins/sitemap/sitemap.php?search=google&number=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^yahoo-sitemap.txt$ /plugins/sitemap/sitemap.php?search=yahoo [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^urllist.txt$ /plugins/sitemap/sitemap.php?search=urllist [QSA,L]
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