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I have a year old WP site that showed up on Google, but wasn't indexing all pages. I submitted the .xml sitemap via https://www.google.com/ping?sitemap="ur
by eth0up 3y ago
I have a year old WP site that showed up on Google, but wasn't indexing all pages. I submitted the .xml sitemap via
https://www.google.com/ping?sitemap="url"
But that didn't seem fully effective. I then succumbed to uploading a verification file to the root directory (requires Google account) and resubmitted an inddx request. Within 12 hours a Google search of
Site:"my url"
yielded all pages. I'm terribly rusty with websites, hence my use of WordPress and willingness to taint my root directory with Google files. I do notice that exact, relevant queries in quotes still show no results for some content. Much to relearn.
- franze 3y agowas the sitemap.xml located in the root of the domain? https://www.google.com/ping?sitemap= https://www.google.com/ping?sitemap= only works if there is a previous root reference (i.e. via robots.txt or via GSC submit) of the sitemap.xml right issue, as from the original spec a sitemap can only submit URLs of the same or lower URL hierachy to Google. or there is a root reference to the sitemap.xml
- eth0up 3y agoI don't remember the initial loc. It's now in the root dir as mentioned. However, I'm still not pleased with the results, but perhaps it takes time. I'm sure backlink or two wouldn't hurt.