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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: What to do AFTER activate REDIRECTION PLUGIN (have many 404's)OK, I just went into WP Dashboard to BWS Plugins and chose the option below to following:
“The sitemap file is already exists. If you want to change it for a new sitemap file check the necessary box below. In other case all actions will be performed over an existing file.”
“I want to create new sitemap file”
“I want to add sitemap file path in robots.txt”After I clicked these two option boxes above, it asked to save changes to Google Webmaster account so I guess I’ll see if it corrects sitemap as I understand it now has sent an updated one to Google… hopefully it works!
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: What to do AFTER activate REDIRECTION PLUGIN (have many 404's)OK, thanks for the help again s_ha_dum…. Makes sense and good point.
I am still a bit of a newb with this stuff so I really don’t know how to figure out the ‘why’ of causing it to be invalid. I have a thought… can I simply deactivate the BWPSitmap Plugin and reactivate it? Or Deactivate it then install the other Sitemap plugin “Google XML Sitemap Plugin”?
My thinking is that if I undo the bad one and reinstall with a good one, it should be correct?
If this is stupid thinking on my part, how can I find out what is causing so I can fix?
Thanks
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: What to do AFTER activate REDIRECTION PLUGIN (have many 404's)I just came from Webmaster tools and before I resumbitted, it gave the following message:
“We were unable to read your Sitemap. It may contain an entry we are unable to recognize. Please validate your Sitemap before resubmitting.” and it says it detected this on June 15th. If I go ahead and resubmit a new sitemap, do I need to “validate” it as it states or do anything in WP? Currently my plugin (BWPSitemap) submits it automatically and since updating to pretty URLs, I haven’t changed anything with that sitemap plugin. Do I need to before hitting Google’s “Resubmit or Add/Test Sitemap” button?Thanks so much for all your help!
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: What to do AFTER activate REDIRECTION PLUGIN (have many 404's)Thanks so much for the response!
So if my blog pages load ok when on the site, does that mean that google can find them or do I need to submit another sitemap? Currently I’m using “BWP Google XML Sitemaps” plugin. Does this automatically update my sitemap to Google or do I need to go into G. Webmasters to update so Google can find these new URLs/Permalinks?
Thanks!!