Comments on: Googlebot Wasn’t Finding My Robots.txt File

By: bradblog

bradblog — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:39:02 +0000

Welcome to the blog cardiogirl!

I’d highly recommend the third party tracking software called, “Statcounter”… There has been no downtime for me and it works like a charm!

One piece of code, and it records everything that loads it. It is simply amazing what people can do with code.

I use both on my blog however, just incase one doesn’t work for a while!

By: cardiogirl

cardiogirl — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:40:31 +0000

Howdy! I found you through Nice2All’s blog review.

I’ve had some trouble with Google Analytics lately because I changed my theme and placing the code in my new file proved very frustrating.

I know. They tell you. They want you to put it before the end body text section.

And I did. And like a petulant child it changed by body text and then it took four of five days to see that it was installed. And even so it’s not tracking anything. GRR!

So I ended up putting the old code from the old template somewhere else above the end body text section and it stopped messing with my body text mojo and finally verified that it was working. Only there have been no visits for the last week.

Which cannot be true because I am receiving comments and Sitemeter is tracking visits, so I’m not extremely happy with Google right now. It is possible that using the old code from the old theme — even though my account number was correct — was a problem.

So I used the new code just today, thanks to finding this post, and I’ll see if anything starts tracking in the next couple of days.

Other than that, things are going great with Google Analytics.

By: Joan

Joan — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:53:56 +0000

I generate a sitemap, and I believe it does make a diference. Make sure you set it to update daily.Joan's last blog post..A Robust Free SEO Keyword Research Tool

By: Armen Shirvanian

Armen Shirvanian — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:06:16 +0000

I had not heard of a problem like this, and will now have a better idea if it occurs. I did read some material about editing or improving the usage of one's robot.txt file, and the writer of that information said that it led to better results by Google.Armen Shirvanian's last blog post..Quality Builds On Itself

By: Icon

Icon — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:36:32 +0000

You’re right Brad. That google sitemap plugin is a must-have tool for website to get google crawl the site structure better.

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By: bradblog

bradblog — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:41:32 +0000

Hi Master Of SEO..

I’d say having a sitemap is pretty important. It allows google to find your site better, without having the googlebot to find it. See this plugin:

http://www.arnebrachhold.de/redir/sitemap-home/

For generating a sitemap that instantly updates whenever you post something.

By: mastersofseo

mastersofseo — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:24:33 +0000

How important would you say having a site map is, in google webmaster tools? Because I’d done one before but there was an error, but then I didn’t think it was worth figuring out what was wrong. Does that help alot to have it? Thanks for the help.

Jonathan Muller
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