Hi I have recently removed the '.html' from the end of my url's to make them look more professional which was brilliant. However, now when I see my site on Google the old url which includes the '.html' still appears which produces people with an error page as expected. How can I tell Google that I have new url addresses so that people can visit my site again?
thanks!
Best way to remove .html extensions is by adding it in .htaccess file. This way search engines will "understand" it, but you will not seeing the search result immediately, since search engine crawler, will take some time to update.
And make sure to submit your url in google. If you have google webmaster you will be able to see this process and status of your website more clearly.
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I have tons of 404 crawl errors(my old url's).. I deleted them via Google Webmaster tools > remove url tool..
example: www.mysite.com/page1.html
But there are some external source sites which link my old urls on their content pages (ex: www.anothersite.com).. And because of they have my old urls on their pages, my url removal always fails..
What can i do now? i cannot delete these links; i don't know who is these websites owners.. And there are tons of external URLs like this; i cannot delete one by one via pressing button again and again.
Can robots.txt be enough? or what can i do more?
You dont want to use robots.txt for blocking the url(Google does not recommending).
404s are a perfectly normal (and in many ways desirable) part of the web. You will likely never be able to control every link to your site, or resolve every 404 error listed in Webmaster Tools. Instead, check the top-ranking issues, fix those if possible, and then move on.
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2409439?hl=en
My website had a link to my profilepage, profile.html. Later I changed it to ItsMe.html. When I search for the website in the Google, its still showing profile.html. How can I change this to ItsMe.html in the google? In fact I have deleted the profil.html from my website and created the new itsme.html. I dont want to show the profile.html anywhere in google search.
You will have to wait until Google crawls your site again. Once they do that, they will update their index. For a popular, continually updated site that would probably happen several times a day, but for a small personal site that doesn't often change, it will likely be a lot longer.
You can submit a request for them to recrawl your site, but no guarantees it will actually happen any quicker. ;-)
You should also set up a 301 redirect from profile.html to ItsMe.html.
I have made a page in html5 with css3. It works fine on local (I dont use any server, just doubleclick in the index to open it).
I want to put it in google drive. I have load all the documents needed, but when I try to open the html, I can only see the text (I mean, it is not being executing, I can see just the source code).
Any suggestion?
Not available any more, https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2881970?hl=en
Host web pages with Google Drive
Note: This feature will not be available after August 31, 2016.
I highly recommend https://www.heroku.com/ and https://www.netlify.com/
EDIT: As of August 2016 Google Drive can no longer be used to host static web pages, so this solution no longer works.
Create a new folder in Drive and share it as "Public on the web."
Upload your content files to this folder.
Right click on your folder and click on Details.
Copy Hosting URL and paste it on your browser.(e.g. https://googledrive.com/host/0B716ywBKT84AcHZfMWgtNk5aeXM)
It will launch index.html if it exist in your folder other wise list all files in your folder.
I don't think it is necessary to "host" the content using the way from the accepted answer. It is too complicated for a normal user with limited developing skills.
Google actually has provided hosting feature without using Drive SDK/API, what you need is just few clicks. Check this out:
http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2881970
It is the same to the answer of user1557669. However, in step 4, the URL is not correct, it is like:
https://drive.google.com/#folders/...
To get the correct host URL. Right click on the html file (you have to finish 1-3 steps first and put the html in the public shared folder), and select "Details" from the context menu. You will find the hosting URL right close to the bottom of the details panel. It should look like:
https://googledrive.com/host/.../abc.html
Then you can share the link to anyone. Happy sharing.
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While drive allows you to edit plain text and HTML files I don't believe they allow the HTML to actually be displayed. I don't think they want people hosting websites from their drive space.
A lot of the solutions offered here do not seem to work anymore. I'm currently on a chromebook and wanted to view an HTML5 banner. This seems impossible now through Google Drive or other apps (as mentioned in previous comments).
The method I ended up using to view the HTML5 was the following:
Open Google Adwords (create a free account if you dont have one)
Click on Ads in the top panel
Click on "+AD" and choose image ad
Choose "upload an ad"
Drag and drop your zip file into the area
Click on Preview
Voila, you will see your HTML5 banners in their full beauty
There may well an easier way, but this way is pretty good too. Hope it helps and worked well for me.
Create a new folder in Drive and share it as "Public on the web."
Upload your HTML, JS & CSS files to this folder.
Open the HTML file & you will see "Preview" button in the toolbar.
Share the URL that looks like www.googledrive.com/host/... from the preview window and anyone can view your web page.
Found method to see your own html file (from here (scroll down to answer from prac): https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/drive/YY_fou2vo0A)
-- use Get Link to get URL with id=... substring
-- put uc instead of open in URL
I have a webpage that it cannot be accessed through my website.
Say, my website is www.google.com and the webpage that I cannot access using the website is like www.google.com/iamaskingthis/asdasd. This webpage appears on the google results when I type its content, however there is nothing which sends me to that page on my website.
I've already tried analyzing the page source to find its parent location but I can't seem to find it. I want to delete that page, but since I cannot find it, I can't destroy it either.
Thank you
You can use a robots.txt file to prevent search engine bots from visiting a page, and thus not showing search results for it.
For example, you can create a robots.txt file in the root of your website and add the following content to it:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /mysecretpage.html
More details at: http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html
There is no such concept as a 'parent page'. If you mean, by which link Google found the page, plese keep in mind, that it need not be under your control: If I put a link to www.google.com/iamaskingthis/asdasd on a page on my website and thegooglebat crawls it, it will know about it.
To make it short: There is no reliable way of hiding a page on a website. Use authentication, if you want to restrict access.
Google will crawl the page even if the button is gone, as it already has the page stored in it's records. The only way to disallow google crawling to it is either robots.txt or simply deleting it off the server (via FTP or your hostings control panel).
If I have a sitemap_index.xml:
http://www.domain.com/sitemap.xml
2010-09-28
And I change the content or update the page, and then change the lastmod, will I then have to submit it again to the search engines, for example in google webmaster tools (the section where you submit sitemaps)?
Thanks
As long as you've told Google about the sitemap, they'll check it periodically. The more often it changes, the more they'll tend to check it.
If you go to Site configuration | Sitemaps, it'll tell you the last date they downloaded your sitemap.
No. It is however worth taking a look at the sitemaps page on webmaster tools every now and then and seeing if any errors were reported with the sitemap.
#Skilldrick is right!
Also, google states that the results are not effected by the sitemaps anyway. They should only give a guidance to the search spider. He/she will make the final decision!!