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Sitemaps and Seo Plugin

Hello i have a simple question about the google sitemaps and seo plugin:

How will Google find all the sitemaps? for the main blog its easy, i can go to google webmaster tools and input the url for my main sitemap.xml mydomain.com/sitemap.xml.

however how will google find all other registered blog´s sitemaps?

as i see it generates one sitemap for each blog:

myblog.mydomain.com/sitemap.xml

i should not have to input all sitemaps into google webmaster tools?

is there something im missing?

Regards Roger

Tue, 19 May 2009 12:37:20
  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    How will Google find all the sitemaps?

    That’s for the clients to register although sitemap.xml is the default. If you want, you can also add in a link somewhere on the blog (hooking into the wp_meta hook which displays in the meta portion of the sidebar may be a good idea.) or add it into your robots.txt file.

  • terrence
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    Hi Quick Question. I understand that this plugin submits all of the blogs sitemaps to google. To the best of my knowledge if I want to track the analytics of each of the blogs I must manually add them to my google webmaster account. How do I do this so that all the blogs on the domain are included in the analytics?

    Thanks,

    Terrence

  • terrence
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    Hi Andrew I tried the link to the Google Analytics Plugin and it appears to be broken. What I’m trying to do is get all of my blogs to index with Google. I want to be able to track them in Google Webmaster Tools. I have submitted the main sitemap that is automatically generated by your seo plugin and I’m getting warnings in Google Webmaster Tools and only one URL is being indexed. The warning is as follows.All the URLs in your Sitemap have the same priority.

    All the URLs in your Sitemap are set to the same priority (not the default priority). Priority indicates the importance of a particular URL relative to other URLs on your site, and doesn’t impact your site’s performance in search results. If all URLs have the same priority, Google can’t tell which are more important.

  • terrence
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    Continued from previous post: Andrew I have tried your Google Analytics Plugin. However it is indicated that you need to add the following in Bold To the Tracking Code within each page of your main domain and all blogs in your subdomain. Your Google Analytics Plugin options only allow you to put this code Ex: UA-XXXXX-2

    There is no where to add this additional script in order to track your blogs sitewide.

    Any suggestions you have to accomplish this would be great.

    Thanks,

    Terrence

    <script type="text/javascript">

    var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl.&quot; : "http://www.&quot:wink:;

    document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src=’" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js’ type=’text/javascript’%3E%3C/script%3E":wink:);

    </script>

    <script type="text/javascript">

    try{

    var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-xxxxxx-x":wink:;

    pageTracker._setDomainName(".example.com":wink:;

    pageTracker._trackPageview();

    } catch(err) {}

    </script>

  • Andrew
    • Champion of Loops

    Hiya,

    All the URLs in your Sitemap are set to the same priority (not the default priority). Priority indicates the importance of a particular URL relative to other URLs on your site, and doesn’t impact your site’s performance in search results. If all URLs have the same priority, Google can’t tell which are more important.

    This is one of the reasons the plugin is called "simple sitemaps". There are more advanced sitemap plugins out there if you need all the bells and whistles.

    There is no where to add this additional script in order to track your blogs sitewide.

    There’s a GA box on the Site Admin > Options page that allows you to enter a tracker code that will be used on all blogs.

    Thanks,

    Andrew