XML SiteMap Issues

[cashchampion]

Tweet

Hi Guys,

I have a wordpress site and when it was made the guys used an xml sitemap generator.
The issue I am having is this:
My pages urls are like this: http://www.mydomain.com/Phone-Model. I am actively building links to these urls.
However in the sitemap the urls are all like this: http://www.mydomain/phone-model (with lower case).
Then when I check my indexed pages in google, all the lower-case urls are indexed.
When I check the backlinks for http://www.mydomain.com/Phone-Model I see 30, but when I check for http://www.mydomain/phone-model I see 2, therefore the pages are treated differently.

Any ideas here? If I delete the xml sitemap and start using a new one, will I begin to loose rankings and traffic?

Thanks,
Marc

[Jack Russell]

Since URLs can accept both uppercase and lowercase characters, don't ever, ever allow any uppercase letters in your structure. If you have them now, 301 them to all-lowercase versions to help avoid confusion. If you have a lot of type-in traffic, you might even consider a 301 rule that sends any incorrect capitalization permutation to its rightful home.

[shakir]

Since URLs can accept both uppercase and lowercase characters, don't ever, ever allow any uppercase letters in your structure. If you have them now, 301 them to all-lowercase versions to help avoid confusion. If you have a lot of type-in traffic, you might even consider a 301 rule that sends any incorrect capitalization permutation to its rightful home.

Is the URL is case sensitive. SE itself not case sensitive so how it possible.. I am thinking the bot treat all letter same .... I do not have any issue exp like this so m doubted.. But I read many article also in forums that , in link building mno need to care about letter case

[cashchampion]

Since URLs can accept both uppercase and lowercase characters, don't ever, ever allow any uppercase letters in your structure. If you have them now, 301 them to all-lowercase versions to help avoid confusion. If you have a lot of type-in traffic, you might even consider a 301 rule that sends any incorrect capitalization permutation to its rightful home.

Hi Jack,

Thanks.
I have since tried 3 different 301 plugins for wordpress to redirect the uppoer case urls to the lower case urls, and none of them seem to work.
Do you have any advice on a specific plugin to use?

thanks,
Marc

[Jack Russell]

Hello Marc,

have you tried this one WordPress › Redirection WordPress Plugins ?

[cashchampion]

Hello Marc,

have you tried this one WordPress › Redirection WordPress Plugins ?

Thanks Jack,

Yes I have tried that one, as it looked pretty good.
Basically I activated the plugin, but when I create the 301 redirects, it never saves them. Have you used this plugin before?