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Jon236
4th April 2010, 08:18
Morning Guys, happy Easter!
I submitted a video sitemap to google via the webmaster tools earlier this week, and have been waiting ages for it to index the url. Webmaster tools says it still hasn't indexed the URL, but my video now shows up on google. Are the webmaster tools prone to not updating properly or has the video just been indexed by itself without the sitemap?
Any thoughts? I'm just intrigued really as to if it's appeared by accident, or by my actions.
Cheers,
Jon
zigojacko
4th April 2010, 09:02
Webmaster Tools can take hours to update yes.
If you have linked to the content contained in your video sitemap on your website, then likelihood is Google has just indexed without the use of your sitemap anyway.
Providing the video content is definitely indexed now, you should see your Webmaster Tools reflect that in the next 48 hours.
Happy Easter!
Jon236
4th April 2010, 14:13
Great answer, thanks Zigojacko :)
solopa
5th April 2010, 16:39
can take a few days to crawl and index your site.
zigojacko
5th April 2010, 16:56
can take a few days to crawl and index your site.
What are you even replying to? That doesn't even answer the OP's original question.
Are you sure you're in London and not just one of these other new UKBF members from far east who are just replying one line nonsense to every post within one click of a button reach to you???
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/4585/salopa.jpg
There is a matter of seconds/minutes before each of your posts, you aren't even reading the threads... :mad:
http://yfrog.com/2osalopaj
Jon236
5th April 2010, 17:07
The same thought crossed my mind Zigo. Not sure what he/she is hoping to achieve with forum spam.
saxondale
5th April 2010, 18:08
The same thought crossed my mind Zigo. Not sure what he/she is hoping to achieve with forum spam.
will be a link to somewhere ...............
Webtistic
5th April 2010, 18:25
Clueless spammers who have no idea about effective link building in today's search engine climate.
They still think that spamming links in forums is worth the vast amount of time they spend on it (and the vast amount of everybody elses time it wastes!).
Effective link building has moved on, but these jokers haven't.
Gives all link builders a bad name.
Rant over :)