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iMap and the Google Webmaster Tools

If you watched the tutorial on how to use iMap, then you’ll probably going to like this.

This is the second part to the tutorial. It explains how to use iMap in conjunction with the Google Webmaster Tools: how to get a Google Webmaster Tools project, how to verify your site and add a sitemap. All this will ultimately help you to show up on Google.

If you haven’t watched the first tutorial just yet, then go ahead and do that first.

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New GWTA Warnings

Lately I have been getting quite a collection of emails telling and asking for help about warnings that people are receiving in their Google Webmaster Tools Account (GWTA). The warnings first 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.

This is an issue that comes up with the priority settings in iMap. It is quite stupid and I will be bringing out an update to solve this as soon as I can.
The second warning goes like this:

All the URLs in your Sitemap are marked as having dynamic content.
All the URLs in your Sitemap are marked as having dynamic content. Because it is difficult for search engines to crawl and index dynamic content, this may impact your site’s performance in search results. Check your Sitemap to make sure that your site information is correct.

Now, this is something which I cannot control. Dynamic content is basically a normal webpage with some fancy scripts added to it. These scripts grab certain parts of other files and place it into the main page. This causes the actual page to be built up through lots of small and separate script pages. Google doesn’t like that as it only checks the main page, which of course doesn’t fully have the whole content. Bad! This is one of downsides of iWeb which also is the reason why you can’t run sitemap-generators on your site (and get all pages linked).

Though, as the warnings above are just warnings and not errors, they can be ignored for the time being. I will get rid of the first warning by bringing out an update to iMap – but you will just have to live with the second warning. Sorry people! :-|

Google Down?

Google? Hello? After having typed in the Google search field in Safari for the past hours now, with nothing showing up, I am beginning to worry that Google is doing some upgrading of some kind. No visitors from Google have reached my site in the past hours … and I feel horribly isolated without Google! Sounds weird – but now that I think about it, every question that pops into my mind gets googled. Yahoo is there – but come on; Google is my beloved search engine.

Good luck Google! :-D

PS: Am only I experiencing this problem or others as well? I’ve tried reaching Google on several Macs and they all fail … weird. Now that I look at my site, I see that my ads are gone as well – they are Google Adsense.