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Hey guys,

Hope this training was helpful - please let me know if you have any questions.

Oh, that after about 2 more minutes the status of the sitemap in Google Search Console changed to Success.

Paul

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siamjerry Premium
Hi Paul, I was referred to this video, but got very confused. WA said I had a wrong video setting in my all in one SEO, xml sitemap. It did not say daily/weekly or anything. I changed it to daily, but saw nothing changing.
I do not understand that wen having all in one SEO, including the sitemap feature, suddenly things do not work anymore (my site clicks are going down constantly). And why are they referring to your training? What am I missing here? Thanks for your attention.
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PaulWatson Premium Plus
Hey Georg, apologies as I only just saw this. I am not sure in the context you were referred to this video however if it for the video sitemap then this is what that covers.

It is not designed for All in one SEO issues in general though.

I know this was 4 months ago but did you get you problems sorted? If not, let me know

Paul
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siamjerry Premium
Thank Paul,

I guess it was cleared a little bit later when they told me I had no sitemap.xml. I am sure I had one before but must have lost it along the way, 2-3 years ago. How this is possible I do not know. After I re-inserted the sitemap the clicks were slowly picking up. Back to 1100 a month now, whilst I had 2700 before. I was wondering that if you insert a sitemap, you sort of start from scratch again?
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PaulWatson Premium Plus
No, I think you just need to get your SEO plug in to re create it and it picks everything up. but I have heard of them severely reducing traffic if they drop off

If your site is anything like mine, I would guess that an update of either the plug in or wordpress or the theme messed it up.

I did a theme update the other month and lost all of my Google adsense settings. Took three weeks for it to recover properly

Paul
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siamjerry Premium
I think my SEO plugin is ok, since I recently updated it with the aid of some training video. I also recently updated my theme to Generate Press without any difficulties. Sorry, to hear about yours.
I also installed Kraken for better site speeds and took care of each of my 200 articles to have not too long paragraphs. This was all before the sitemap issue, so I fetched all 200 pages in 20 times to Google for indexing.

I did not need to fetch after I inserted the sitemap, it would happen automatically within two days after publishing. The last few weeks, however, Google does not index my blogs anymore and I do not know why.
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PaulWatson Premium Plus
That seems to happen with Google - I had a run about 2 months ago where I could not get them to index for love nor money. I even sent a message to site support to see if there was anything missing from my site.

Analytics still showed good traffic so I am not sure what the story was. I ask it to fetch whenever i update or add internal links etc. Sometimes indexes immediately and sometimes takes days or weeks.

It appears we are all at the whim of the Google machine I am afraid.
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Dave07 Premium
Hi Paul
Excellent video! May I ask what software you are using to create it?

The fact that you are using videos that aren't even your own to get posts ranking higher is fantastic. I'll definitely be looking into upgrading all in one seo to use a video sitemap - unless I can find a suitable free option.

Thanks
Dave
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Dave07 Premium
Just following up - I don't see any free options for creating a video xml sitemap (apart from one plugin that hasn't been updated for 7 years). In fact there is very little information anywhere about creating video sitemaps!

Do you use the All in one plugin to create your regular xml sitemap too (the WA training advises us to use Google XML sitemaps plugin)
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PaulWatson Premium Plus
Hi Dave, for the video instructions I use Snagit - It doesn't have the editing functionality (such as camera pic on page) of some of the others but I like that I can flip between the webcam and screen with a single press.

As for video sitemap, to be honest, I didn't do any research into any free options. I know Yoast SEO has the same option but not sure if it is available in the free version of that or not. Sorry. But yes I use All-in-one SEO for all sitemaps (it came with the program and works so have never looked elsewhere). Note that All-in-One creates the sitemap but it still has to be added to Google Search Console.

Hope this answers your questions

Paul
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JeffreyBrown Premium Plus
Great training, Paul! thanks for sharing this!

Jeff
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PaulWatson Premium Plus
Thanks Jeff
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JeffreyBrown Premium Plus
You're welcome! I hope you all are safe!

Jeff
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