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.
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I have an old site I am just about well enough (broken arm + cancer) to start working on again and I have already moved it to another server OVH and added an SSL/TLS certificate to it.
However in Chrome when I visit any page on the site, especially https://www.strictly-software.com/plugins/order.asp it shows either (don't know why refreshes would change it but they do sometimes) the insecure sign with the red line through the https:// part of the URL in the address bar or an information circle.
In Firefox however I get a secure lock sign. It maybe some add-on I have used like a popup blocker or something but I am at a loss to find out what is causing these insecure signs to appear when I need locks, especially on the order page
This morning I spent hours going through loads of JavaScript and CSS (background:http://blah.jpg) etc and changing it so it is local and cannot be changed remotely as well as making any http references into src="//" or href="//" etc.
I thought it must be one of the images on the "add this" pop up but cannot see anything in their code. Then I thought the Twitter scroller might be showing images from http destinations but Twitter wraps them all in their own URL format.
Does anyone know from looking at the generated source code what is making the page insecure?
Surely there should be a list somewhere in the browser that shows what content isn't secure and offers you to load or not load it? I know the information icon lets you load or not lot Flash, images or JavaScript but do you know of how I can find out what content isn't secure on these pages without asking visitors?
Thanks in advance.
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.
The google indexed one of my pages, even there are no (I mean NONE) links to that page from anywhere (its a secret project and only 3 peopels know about it), but if I try to google its title, its in the results clearly indexed.
Does somebody know they did it? My theory is Google Chrome input when you go to the page, it just saves it to DB and crawls it.
Are there some pages talking about that? I tried to google it, but did not find anything.
Thanks.
For all you who know, in Google Webmaster Tools one can submit a sitemap or **sitemap_inde**x file and then google will fetch it and crawl the website when it "has time to".
I have searched for this but can't find an answer anywhere...
In the interface of webmaster tools, there is a section for "sitemaps" which lists all sitemaps submitted to google.
On the right of these sitemap names, there is a column saying something like "webadresses in webindex".
This have always shown 0 for all sitemaps.
I am guessing this means nr of pages indexed in the Sitemap.
My Q is, why is this showing 0 all the time? And is this actually the nr of pages indexed by google?
FYI, I have a very good and SE friendly website.
However, you should know it has only been a week that I have submitted the sitemaps.
Any ideas?
Well, sometimes it can take some time, unfortunatly it's quite random.
It happened to me once that, giving 5 different sitemap for 5 different websites at the same time, 4 was done in a week and 1 in a month...
Anyway,
in your sitemap, did you put <changefreq>monthly</changefreq> for the main page ?
on the "sitemaps" page, click on the sitemap you sent and watch the url of the site map (ie: Sitemap : http://www.mydomain.com/sitemap.xml) and see if there's any typo.
Finally, did you try to hit the "resent" link on that page ?
I have had some experience of the sitemapping process. Some software programs that create the XML sitemap will deliver XML that will get 'stuck'.
Have you tried creating the simplest sitemap possible for your site by hand and submitting that?
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!!