Make a Profitable Blog : Modification and Enhancement Part 7 Google Index

November 26th, 2008 by admin

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Profitable blog need to be indexed on the main search engine, google.

I have already installed the plugins to help do this job in almost instantly, the plugins is “Google Sitemap XML”. In this post I will go a bit deeper, so you will get clear picture on doing this easily.

The first things you need to do is download the plugins, to do this, go to http://www.google.com and then type in the search box : google sitemap wordpress, and you will get this :

Ok, after you click the link (the first link, see the picture), this is the google xml sitemap download page :

After you save it on your PC, unzipped it, and then upload it to your server, using FTP software (I use FileZilla, it’s free). I have discuss in my previous post, how to upload files to your server using FTP software.

If your blog is on main domain, then you would like to upload to public_html/wp-content/plugins folder. In our tutorial, since my demotutorial blog is located at http://www.smartmoneymakingwebsite.com/demotutorial (subdomain), so I upload it to public_html/demotutorial/wp-content/plugins folder.

After this, then login to our blog back end (dashboard) and click on plugins. You will see all the plugins you have. If the plugins were already activated, it will reside on the upper side, if it’s not, it will be on the lower side. So, you will see google sitemap XML plugins on the lower side, go ahead click the “activate” link, it will immediately activate this plugins.

Next step, you want to click settings, and you will see “XML-Sitemap” on the upper bar, that is our google sitemap plugins. click that and you will be on this XML – Sitemaps setting page :

In the picture, you can see that the status section is OK. If there are problems, it will be notify and will be written in red. If you have problems, it is easy to solve, just click “learn more” on the problem specified, and you will be guided on how to solve the problems.

One important note on solving the problems if any, you will be given several options to solve it. My recommendation is choose the safest way, dont choose the options that require to change a folder attibute to 777, it mean that the particular folder will be open for anyone to access, and this is not good for our blog security, and dangerous, just in case some hackers find their way to this folder. So chose another options (don’t worry, there’s always another option), to change the attribute of some files to 777. On my previous post, I have mentioned about changing the files attributes. Simply open your FTP software (e.g Filezilla), connect, then browse in the server side, go to the files that we want to change its attribute, right click on it and the change the attribute to 777. That’s it.

On this sitemaps settings, I literally leave everything as default, but if you want, go ahead scroll down, you can choose to notify yahoo as well.

One more note, before indexing, try to write one or two original post, this will help for faster indexing. On our demotutorial, I have made only 2 post, a welcome post (original) and one short post. And this blog getting indexed by google in the matter of minutes. you can see in the picture below :