Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Trouble Submitting website to Google using Xml Sitemap

Has you may have seen that we have been working really hard in the past few weeks to get our SEO Company website Redonads.com live and completed.

With the Redon Ads website we had taken a different approach to SEO, we used REP / Robots.txt to lock out search engines while still building links to SEO Blog and other mediums. We achieved considerable success as you may know with the homepage getting a pagerank of 3.0

Keeping the momentum going I wanted the completed sections of the site to start getting indexed and accordingly test the results achieved. I generated an XML Sitemap as I firmly that the best way to get a site indexed / cached by Google is by submitting an xml sitemap to Google.



But then Google Webmaster Tool won't co-operate, cause you can't submit a sitemap with pages that are blocked using REP (We HAD used REP to lock Search Engines from the entire website).

But Wait a minute! We also changed the Robots.txt file to unlock the completed pages, but Google Webmaster Tools won't give me an option to let them know that and then except my sitemap.

Labels: REP, robots exclusion protocol, robots txt, submit website to google, xml sitemap

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