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I have changed my theme and layout of my website. Google still sees the old website layout. I have submitted a sitemap.xml successfully and I do not have any crawl errors. M
How can I force google search console to update my web site?
I have changed my theme and layout of my website. Google still sees the old website layout. I have submitted a sitemap.xml successfully and I do not have any crawl errors. M
Hello,
You have your search console open - you select the site you want to upload - the you select "crawling" - then sitemaps - and you just click the button download all.
At that point, google will start (re-start) downloading the whole sitemap^...
It is normal that it takes more than a week...
Mine is ongoing for at least 7 days and still 30% to do.
And my other site was done in 5 days...
It depends...
Grtz,
Bert
Thanks Bert. I looked at this closer. I have 7 pages. It has been 17 days since I submitted my site map. It took one week to Index 4 but the other 3 have not been indexed and it has been another 10 days.
My other website only took 4 days. I also did not make any changes to the first site. I have the feeling that letting Google know about your site if you change it might be detrimental.
I rank on the first page of Bing and Yahoo by searching for the title of my web site. I am not even in the top 120 sites on Google.
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I have watched every video/lesson on excluding IP addresses via a custom or predefined filter for Google Analytics. I have created both. My traffic reporting still shows my so
It sounds to me like you are just trying to get the Google analytics code into your site. This is considerably different than excluding an IP address inside Google analytics. When you exclude an IP address in GA, that means that the analytics will not recognize any visits from that IP address. If you often visit your site, which most of us do, excluding this from the traffic counts can be a good idea.
The Initial problem was excluding my IP. I was getting traffic after pasting the code into my header.php but my IP was showing up. I did not setup the SEO plugin with the tracking code the first time. I saw training on both options (either one or both). I had to setup both and then create a exclude filter for it to work. Maybe that is the correct way but we have conflicting training on this point.
I just wanted to follow up on this. It was driving me crazy so I uninstalled the GA plugin and deleted my website property in GA. I know most people do not have that luxury since you would lose all of your stats.
This time I setup my Google Tracking ID in the All in one SEO plugin -> Google Analytics ID. It still did not track so I pasted the code from inside GA on my new website property into my header.php file right before the </head> tag. I then created my exclude filter and it began working immediately and tracking visits.
There are multiple trainings on this inside WA (one talking about the SEO plugin field and one talking about the header.php file) but apparently I needed to add both of the options above for it to work.
It didn't work for me either so I ended up having to install a Chrome extension and it worked, You can find it here. https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
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Why does exclude ip address filter not work in ga?
I have watched every video/lesson on excluding IP addresses via a custom or predefined filter for Google Analytics. I have created both. My traffic reporting still shows my so
It sounds to me like you are just trying to get the Google analytics code into your site. This is considerably different than excluding an IP address inside Google analytics. When you exclude an IP address in GA, that means that the analytics will not recognize any visits from that IP address. If you often visit your site, which most of us do, excluding this from the traffic counts can be a good idea.
The Initial problem was excluding my IP. I was getting traffic after pasting the code into my header.php but my IP was showing up. I did not setup the SEO plugin with the tracking code the first time. I saw training on both options (either one or both). I had to setup both and then create a exclude filter for it to work. Maybe that is the correct way but we have conflicting training on this point.
I just wanted to follow up on this. It was driving me crazy so I uninstalled the GA plugin and deleted my website property in GA. I know most people do not have that luxury since you would lose all of your stats.
This time I setup my Google Tracking ID in the All in one SEO plugin -> Google Analytics ID. It still did not track so I pasted the code from inside GA on my new website property into my header.php file right before the </head> tag. I then created my exclude filter and it began working immediately and tracking visits.
There are multiple trainings on this inside WA (one talking about the SEO plugin field and one talking about the header.php file) but apparently I needed to add both of the options above for it to work.
It didn't work for me either so I ended up having to install a Chrome extension and it worked, You can find it here. https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
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Hello,
You have your search console open - you select the site you want to upload - the you select "crawling" - then sitemaps - and you just click the button download all.
At that point, google will start (re-start) downloading the whole sitemap^...
It is normal that it takes more than a week...
Mine is ongoing for at least 7 days and still 30% to do.
And my other site was done in 5 days...
It depends...
Grtz,
Bert
Thanks Bert. I looked at this closer. I have 7 pages. It has been 17 days since I submitted my site map. It took one week to Index 4 but the other 3 have not been indexed and it has been another 10 days.
My other website only took 4 days. I also did not make any changes to the first site. I have the feeling that letting Google know about your site if you change it might be detrimental.
I rank on the first page of Bing and Yahoo by searching for the title of my web site. I am not even in the top 120 sites on Google.