Comments on: Google Sitemaps - Essential

By: Anurag

Anurag — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:17:17 +0000

I feel very glad to read such a interesting and useful post for bloggers. I hope this will bring my blog to index in google seach engine.

Thank You, very much.

By: Chris Lodge

Chris Lodge — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:40:09 +0000

Hi JHS, I take it you mean the actual redirection plugin, not the sitemaps one?

My 404 logs is also pages long and I think a lot of that is due to access requests for images etc: eg my log contains loads of 404’s for my favicon (even though it’s there) so these can be happily picked up using the global redirect to your home page.

I would only bother with a specific 301 redirection if/when you delete a post ore replace it with a different one.

HTH

By: JHS

JHS — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:43:42 +0000

This Redirection plug-in is wonderful, but very powerful. Too powerful for a non-techy like myself.

I set the options to automatically redirect .
I started blogging on Blogger (what a mistake) in 2005, then switched to WordPress a couple of months ago. My 404 log goes on for pages and pages. Do I have to manually set up a redirect for everything listed there, too? Won’t the one redirect set via the options take care of it?

I find this all very confusing!

Thanks for any clarification you can provide.

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By: Chris Lodge

Chris Lodge — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:52:08 +0000

I’m afraid you can’t follow these instructions for Blogger Curmudgeon.

You need my Blogger instructions here.

By: The Curmudgeon

The Curmudgeon — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:20:16 +0000

OK, Chris, just for grins I looked at this. Generated a site map. Downloaded it. It’s sitting on my Desktop now, wondering why it’s here.

So am I.

I’m supposed to upload it to the public_html folder of my site… which would be… what? Where? How?