Sitemaps

**MikeCronnie** · 28-12-11

Just a quick question for anyone who may have an answer.

I Am using wordpress on my site along with Yoast's SEO plugin. It generates the .xml sitemap as domain/sitemap_index.xml as opposed to just domain/sitemap.xml

These are submitted to Google and Bing and seem to be working correctly, however, when I check those SEO checking websites, it always says I don't have an XML Sitemap... Presumably they are just looking for sitemap.xml with their tool and don't auto-search the variants.

Is this something I should worry about since my current sitemaps are accepted by search engines? I Don't feel it is, I just hate seeing a red X next to it on the report when I know it's there...

Your thoughts and recommendations on this please

**dc000000** · 28-12-11

Originally Posted by MikeCronnie

Is this something I should worry about since my current sitemaps are accepted by search engines?

No it isn't

**MikeCronnie** · 28-12-11

Didn't think so, it just annoys me that these guys haven't adapted their analysis scripts to locate a sitemap properly...... and I can't edit my robots.txt file through wordpress to include a direct path to it which would have been a simple solution, but I suppose this is probably a good thing as it will limit what scrapers and these scripts will find from my site for whatever evil purpose they could use it for... hehehe

**D4N** · 28-12-11

How are you finding Yoast as a plugin? Any problems? Easy to use? I've had a look at it and it looks ideal.

**Fitness Coupons** · 28-12-11

Originally Posted by D4N

How are you finding Yoast as a plugin? Any problems? Easy to use? I've had a look at it and it looks ideal.

I use YOAST, it's perfect for what it does and easy to use. Remember also that the tags field is really important, I get quite a lot of people visiting my blog by typing in certain tags into Google that match up with the tags I put in my blog posts.

**MikeCronnie** · 28-12-11

It's really useful and very easy to use. Still finding new functions and ways of doing things after a few months of using it, and the integrated SEO analysis provided by Linkdex before you even publish your page, is a very useful aid.

I just noticed today that i had been missing out a couple of boxes of SEO that should really improve my ratings once i get all of the pages sorted out. Relearning terminology is what i have had to do alot of, and also get my target keywords more specific to my posts.

With the tags , i do use them and i allow them to be indexed in my XML sitemap, but i don't have them showing on my HTML sitemap page. I Don't allow any of my archive pages to be listed on on either though to prevent it appearing as duplicate content within the site. It's a fine line sometimes with that.

things in general looking up, just wish webgains was back up as i need to see how my balls-up with my php file has affected me :/ Don't think i have had any traffic clicking through from my site as there was an extra " in a bloody php, so none of my outbound affiliate links have been working since the 17th.... Once i get these pages sorted, will be time to sort out links to my site (still not sure what path to take that yet though.....)