[Plugin: WordPress SEO by Yoast] Will Google, et al, find sitemap.xml in ../wp-content/uploads/wpseo

  • Resolved fromtheranks

    (@fromtheranks)


    13 years, 8 months ago

    I’m switching to WordPress SEO 0.2.3.2 after quite some time with various versions of HeadSpace2 (the latest, 3.6.28 seems to be dead as a viable plugin due to no support since June 2010) and with Google XML Sitemaps (which still works).

    The first obvious change is that I have no control over where sitemap.xml goes. It is now generated into ../wp-content/uploads/wpseo which is a long ways from root where the “old” one was stored.

    Will Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc., find it down under the ../wpseo folder? Or do I have to make a change somewhere?

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  • Thread Starter fromtheranks

    (@fromtheranks)

    I’ll be darned. I don’t know exactly how it does it (at least not yet) but after finishing the upgrade to WP3.1.1 on https://www.fromtheranks.com I updated pages and posts to ensure the SEO portion was correct, went to the Google Webmaster tools and … I’ll be darned if Google didn’t find the sitemap.xml file without any prompting or redirecting on my part … even though it was “buried” in the ../wp-content/uploads/wpseo folder.

    Thank you Yoost for a great plugin!

    @fromtheranks could you please tell me if Google already indexed your sitemap and how long did it took?
    Did you create a robots.txt file? For me, in Webmasters Tools, when using fetch as a googlebot I receive a message that Googlebot is blocked by robots.txt.
    I don’t have a real robots.txt created and I allow search engines to crawl my site from Settings/Privacy.

    Thank you!

    Thread Starter fromtheranks

    (@fromtheranks)

    avantime,

    Hi. Sorry for the late response but got tied up at work. No, I did not create a robots.txt file; never had one as far as I know (or a need for one).

    Via Google Webmaster tools, I resubmitted my site on 4/17 after all the changes and it took them a couple of days to scan it (on 4/19). The only problems were a couple of missing/erroneous images. Other than that …

    As a side-bar, when I clicked on the “See Sitemap” link that link came back right away with a display of my new sitemap.xml file so I was pretty sure then that Google would find it.

    Hope this helps.

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