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1. OrientalRugs
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   In previous wordpress blogs we've run, we have posted an entry and noticed google indexes in a fairly timely manner. These have either been self hosted, isolated blogs, or hosted through wordpress.

   Recently, we attached a wordpress blog to our website domain in the directory "blog". We've noticed that indexing has not happened for individual posts, just the home page. We also got an error on our blog feed from a google bot:

   (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)

   We double checked all settings which would otherwise inhibit spiders to crawl.

   We also attempted to submit two sitemaps to google webmaster tools. One for the website, and another for the blog. The one for the blog was rejected.

   What are suggestions on having a website and blog on the same server. We have seen this done successfully, although do not understand what issues may be causing the failed crawl attempt, submission of webmastertools sitemap, and other.

2. OrientalRugs
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   website is this rug site and this is the rug blog

3. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   you could install the site map plugin for wordpress - it has the option to include static pages from root - also never seen google reject it
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/

   your feed has one problem that google doesn't like

4. OrientalRugs
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks for the attention re feed issue. This we resorted, the link was excellent and well appreciated.

   Regarding the dual sitemap of our rug site and rug blog, we integrated both together using the XML sitemap generator plugin in wordpress, manually added those links from out original website into blog sitemap. It's an easy copy paste. We then then rewrote the destination of the wordpress sitemap with all URLs to automatically update our root directory sitemap.

   Thanks~!

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