Jim,
I’ve got the three types of sitemaps loaded but I don’t see Google search ratios changing. "Numbers after + are successful hits on "robots.txt" files" , and over the last couple of weeks my numbers for Googlebots look like this: 82+13, 90+14, 95+16, 103+17. Google’s last crawl was on the 16th. How long does it take for the Googlebots to take advantage of the google sitemap? My MSN bots aren’t doing to good either: 114+68, 118+73, 141+76, 147+79. What sitemap does MSN use? Yahoobots are at 100%.
Thanks,
Roger
Jim,
It hasn’t got any better. For Google I have 106+17, 120+19, 130+20.
For MSN I got 148+80, 154+87, 155+89. I don’t see what I could have done wrong.
Roger
Hello Roger,
I’ve been plugging away at the new design for AuditMyPc.com and finally have most of it completed, so I have a little time now.
I am surprised that you have not seen increased activity, at least with the Googlebot. Google accepted your sitemap, correct? Are you using Google’s tracking tool / service? Are they reporting any errors?
Regards,
Jim.
Jim,
For April first my Googlebot numbers were 9 tried and only 2 succeeded. You know the only error I have at my Google webmasters account is that ice-fishing thing you wrote as an exmple. How can Google pick that up. G.webmasters is not awstats.
Roger
Hi Roger,
I have your email but don’t feel comfortable logging into your G Account. I would rather walk you through the process than log in – but I appreciate the trust!
The ice-fishing was a link on this forum, and fortunately, the google bot spiders this forum daily, so if your link is here, then it the bot will find it and try to follow.
I believe I removed that link (you can check our posts to see and if I didn’t, I’ll remove it.).
It does not hurt you in any way whatsoever – the whole purpose was to demonstrate that just because it appears in your log files does not mean it’s a problem on your end.
There are a TON of sites out there that do nothing but scrape content of posts, and perhaps this is what happened when we had that link live? Did it have a referrer attached to the error?
I’m trying to wrap up posts today – I created a new broadband test for webmasters and visitors alike and just finished it yesterday. A email will go out to those on the notifications list today if all goes well. (take a look and test it out if you get time).
Google should have spidered your site by now, but it may still be some time before they appear in search results.
Regards,
Jim.