Submitting a sitemap

[aidan1980]

I know, I know, seems just 1 thing after another right now. Submitted my sitemap fine but had to create a 2nd file as for some reason the first didn't work, said 'couldn't fetch'. 2nd sitemap worked fine but noticed it hasn't been crawled for nearly a month. Just created another hxxxs://free-bets.uk.com/sitemap2.xml and again, couldn't fetch. I use the same xml generator for all my site and never have an issue. Any ideas?

 

[Solve My Problem]

The URL/sitemap is showing OK.

Who are you hosting with? I ran a mobile test and Google was unable to access a lot of your images (which I can), that would indicate an issue with the site blocking requests.

In terms of the sitemap I wouldn't worry too much, Google will find your pages, you don't have many, although you are highly unlikely to rank anywhere without a lot of proper SEO work.

I would be more worried about why it's generally not accessing your site.

I ran the test again and it failed on other images so it's a hosting issue.

 

[aidan1980]

i've been trying to get new pages found by google for nearly a month now and they aren't even being discovered, using the submit tool.
hosting with tsohost and all is the same as all my other sites with no issues at all

 

[finleydesign]

Ignore the warnings, deleted the second feed, stick with the one, if the URL is correct it will come back and find it, ignore these initial warnings, it always tend to say it can't fetch it

 

[aidan1980]

got an error now, saying general http error

http error 404

 

[finleydesign]

got an error now, saying general http error

http error 404

Nope the original URL is fine and working, just enter that link in webmaster and leave it, it will pick it up

 

[aidan1980]

if it says it can't be read how will just leaving it sort the problem?

 

[finleydesign]

if it says it can't be read how will just leaving it sort the problem?

Feeds can often fail to fetch initially, we just leave them and it will pick it up within a few hours or next day, just make sure the URL is set ok and leave it

 

[aidan1980]

Feeds can often fail to fetch initially, we just leave them and it will pick it up within a few hours or next day, just make sure the URL is set ok and leave it

yeah but it's not been read for nearly a month, despite updating over that period

 

[fisicx]

i've been trying to get new pages found by google for nearly a month now and they aren't even being discovered, using the submit tool.
hosting with tsohost and all is the same as all my other sites with no issues at all

Then problem is not the sitemap, it’s your website. If google can’t follow links to the pages a sitemap isn’t going to make it any better.

 

[aidan1980]

Then problem is not the sitemap, it’s your website. If google can’t follow links to the pages a sitemap isn’t going to make it any better.

there's no errors on the site and nothing blocking access

 

[fisicx]

In which case it’s google not seeing any reason to reindex the site.

Which page is google ignoring?

 

[aidan1980]

In which case it’s google not seeing any reason to reindex the site.

Which page is google ignoring?

all the blog ones but they've been moved this week, stsbet and sporting index, basically anything added after 22nd july when google last read the sitemap

 

[finleydesign]

there's no errors on the site and nothing blocking access

You already have 40 pages indexed on Google

 

[fisicx]

Google is indexing your posts. I can find loads of them. Even those posted today.

 

[aidan1980]

Google is indexing your posts. I can find loads of them. Even those posted today.

I can't, todays 1, just searched the first paragraph, nothing, same with other pages

 

[aidan1980]

although it does seem to have found 60 pages in the last few minutes even if it has only discovered them

 

[UKSBD]

Try fetching and submitting some of your pages rather than the sitemap

Google might not have crawled them since you added the blog section and doesn't even know the blog section exists yet

 

[fisicx]

I can't, todays 1, just searched the first paragraph, nothing, same with other pages

Search for the url.

The posts are indexed, google just doesn’t think they are worthy of ranking.

 

[aidan1980]

Search for the url.

The posts are indexed, google just doesn’t think they are worthy of ranking.

that is because i also submitted an indexing request to inspect the sitemap url to make sure it could actually crawl the page, the pages themselves haven't been crawled. it isn't a quality issue, my site ranks for competitive terms

 

[UKSBD]

the link to the blog section was probably added after Google last crawled your pages

do a site: search then leave a space and add the word blog

then do a site: search leave a space and add -blog

site search isn't accurate but it gives you an idea, the link to the blog must have been added after 11 Aug

Fetch and submit a few pages and it might then find them

 

[fisicx]

Not sure what else you want google to do. The posts have been indexed, I can find them by searching the post title and a sentence in the opening paragraph. The problem is it’s not your site. They are attributed to freesupertips.

 

[aidan1980]

Not sure what else you want google to do. The posts have been indexed, I can find them by searching the post title and a sentence in the opening paragraph. The problem is it’s not your site. They are attributed to freesupertips.

can you link to what you are seeing please as im not seeing any of this. again, google haven't crawled those pages. they discovered the urls, 2 totally different things

 

[fisicx]

can you link to what you are seeing please as im not seeing any of this. again, google haven't crawled those pages. they discovered the urls, 2 totally different things

Sorry, I didn't realise Google was indexing freesupertips and not your posts. The reason could simply be because your posts look spun (same structure, same format, similar content).

Maybe Google doesn't see any value in indexing your blog posts.

 

[aidan1980]

Sorry, I didn't realise Google was indexing freesupertips and not your posts. The reason could simply be because your posts look spun (same structure, same format, similar content).

Maybe Google doesn't see any value in indexing your blog posts.

they aren't spun, I wrote most myself. as I keep saying, the pages haven't been crawled, the urls found but not crawled

 

[aidan1980]

and those posts they've made on there are not even close to being anything like mine

 

[fisicx]

and those posts they've made on there are not even close to being anything like mine

Google thinks they are. A search for your URL returns the freesupertips post. Your post doesn't even appear to have been fetched. This suggests it's been blocked or Google is no longer indexing the site.

 

[aidan1980]

Google thinks they are. A search for your URL returns the freesupertips post. Your post doesn't even appear to have been fetched. This suggests it's been blocked or Google is no longer indexing the site.

no it doesn't think that at all, it's the closest due to the keywords being in my urls. google is indexing my site, it is still indexing my site. what it has failed to do is crawl any new content, hence the sitemap query in the first place

 

[fisicx]

Yes, but as I said, the sitemap isn't going to fix the problem. If Google was indexing the site those posts would be appearing in the SERPS. Sitemaps don't ensure new content is indexed, all they do is flag up that new content exists. When does your Google webmaster account say the site was last indexed?

 

[aidan1980]

the sitemap would have found the new content, that is the problem, homepage was crawled a few days back with some other established pages but not new.

 

[Aleksander_Gramm]

the sitemap would have found the new content, that is the problem, homepage was crawled a few days back with some other established pages but not new.

The sitemap isn't the problem.
I've noticed Google doesn't like new content now. Google crawls a content but doesn't add to its index because the content is not unique. Also Google doesn't like gambling and betting niches. I know the SEO agency that specialized in the search optimization of these niches and I know some nuances.
I agree with @fisicx it is all about the quality of your site (the quality in Google's definition and we all have no clue what Google means " the quality of a website").