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Made a complete back-up

Made a new directory on my workstation called canvas new

Unzipped the new version of canvas into the new directory Canvas New
(note the unzipped files were in a sub directory called Canvas)

Using FileZilla went in and changed the active Canvas theme name to Canvas-1 on my host

Using FileZilla moved from my workstation the Canvas (which held all the unzipped files) directory (which was in in Canvas New)

My site was now using the new version of Canvas

Test the entire site (it worked)

Some notes: I use a child theme for all my modifications, I found (luckily) no conflicts with the plugins

Hope this helps – if something is not clear let me know

I finally solved the problem of the update – it wasn’t that difficult
but it certainly wasn’t my favorite thing to try

i am seeing the same thing – but only occasionally, when it happens I am seeing random text from the front page

SEO is a focused piece of work that requires clear objectives, takes time, and needs all your creativity to accomplish your objectives

Double your traffic? Sounds to good to be true.

Look at Yoast if your running a WP site

as far as I can tell the “physical” xml files – are not there – at least in a traditional sense,

in terms of controlling generation and content of what’s listed in the Yoast xml files
I’ve had quite some luck – I’ve been generally using the Titles + Metas tabs to manage
in general terms the overall content, and the Advanced Tab on products and pages to exclude specific things.

if your not seeing XML sitemaps on the Yoast sitemap tab then generally it would be either an issue with your theme integration of Yoast or the Yoast configurations done

I added yesterday the robots.txt file (which wasn’t there) and re-submitted my site maps (setting many pages to nofollow noindex on the advanced tab),

this morning when I checked there are still some errors which for some reason google has links to pages which are no longer there and are no longer in the site maps (I am not sure why these links remain persistent but they do) and for several listings google seems to ignore the Yoast information and google just puts stuff in from the page in the snippet (like footer information … or worse combines some of the Yoast data with some of the page data giving a totally random text snippet)

other than the above – it would be hard to figure what is going wrong with your sitemaps – I always try to remember when I am frustrated: “Computers are stupid, they do exactly what we tell them to do”

sorry if I offended you

I am running 3.6.1 with Canvas – works just fine so far for me

curious also …

try using one of the sitemaps shown on the page

might be — https://your.site/page-sitemap.xml

if your seeing www then make sure webmaster for your site is defined as www
if your seeing http then make sure webmaster for your site is define as http

I know I am being pedantic here but if we are going to try to figure this out
we need to start at the first step …

ok – first it was doing what I said … when you have text it is apparently generating a new sitemap as this morning I have “fresh” sitemaps.

for your problem – depending on how you have configured Yoast when you look at the XML sitemap you should see a page (the url should be https://your.site/sitemap_index.xml

When you go to webmaster tools – make sure 1st your site is correctly defined …
www – and https:// are not the same …

the first time you submit a site map – you must submit the site map

first step should be to cut and paste the individual sitemap name into submit site map in googlewebmaster … do a test first and it will tell you if they find your sitemap.

In waltzing around google I do find that he is pretty good about replying,
though I am certain he and his team are busier than a one armed paper hanger.

Strange your not getting any google hits … what do you mean by “hits”?

Is your site a new site? On webmaster tools are you indexed with no or low errors?

I didn’t see the comment on the WP Database – perhaps I’ll try to look there but I would be pretty adverse to changing something there.

I also posted something tonight on the use of the advance tabs (noindex nofollow) and when does the XML sitemap regenerate, and a second question on the logout/?_wpnonce and how I can set this to noindex nofollow.

I have not yet asked – but I am also very curious as to why sometimes when I go to SEO XML Sitemap I get a very nice screen showing the sitemaps and other times when I go I get a text string … perhaps the sitemaps are running under some kind of background chron process and you get the text string when it’s running?

As I used the advance tab to noindex several pages … and I still have unchanged XML sitemaps after – and now I have the text string – I will be curious to see if the noindex are gone when I get back to the pretty page showing the xml site maps.

Finally – when I look at webmaster tools – I seem to have a robots.txt – when I look in my directories or on the edit function of Yoast SEO it tells me I have no robots.txt … so I am curious as to how this all works …

kim

hummm … I was doing the same search today …

a question I am curious about also …

no problem … is a great plug in but to make it work with Canvas appears to be a bit of a problem …

thanks though for the thought – unless you know an easy way to get it working with the Canvas theme.

Kim

hey work is good … enjoy