| Hashbangs, HTTPS, and Pending Sitemap Questions | Todd H. Lynch | 5/16/12 1:00 PM | I have two questions: 1) I am working on getting the site https://www.stlbeacon.org submitted to Google News. The site uses both hashbangs and forces users to HTTPS because the whole site functions as a single page application with integrated donati |
| Re: Hashbangs, HTTPS, and Pending Sitemap Questions | bobbygunn | 5/17/12 4:21 PM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: Hashbangs, HTTPS, and Pending Sitemap Questions | bobbygunn | 5/17/12 4:24 PM | Todd, The first thing i wold ask is if you are specifically using the "User-agent: Googlebot-news" to pass the news bot to the http instead of https? I know it sounds simple but that may do the trick. Could you post the link of your sitemap for me? |
| Re: Hashbangs, HTTPS, and Pending Sitemap Questions | Todd H. Lynch | 5/17/12 5:00 PM | I just added the "Googlebot-news" entry to the array and re-submitted. I also made the search case-insensitive. function is_bot(){ $botlist = array("Teoma", "alexa", "froogle", "Gigabot", "inktomi", "looksmart", "URL_Spider_SQL", "Firefly", "Nation |
| Re: Hashbangs, HTTPS, and Pending Sitemap Questions | Todd H. Lynch | 5/18/12 6:03 AM | And here is the sitemap: http://www.stlbeacon.org/tools/news_sitemap?v=4 Note that when a non-bot hits an article page on the site it redirects the user to https AND /#!/, but there is logic that does not redirect bots. Todd |
| Re: Hashbangs, HTTPS, and Pending Sitemap Questions | Todd H. Lynch | 5/18/12 6:37 AM | I had submitted the sitemap three times with different query strings. Now 2 of them have a status of "-" and one of them is still pending. There are only 30 items in the news sitemap, so I would think that once Google started it could be done in min |
| Re: Hashbangs, HTTPS, and Pending Sitemap Questions | bobbygunn | 5/18/12 2:26 PM | Todd, Sometimes there is a delay in webmaster tools. The best way to keep checking is by a site:sitename search in http://news.google.com. This is directly related to gNews not being able to crawl https pages. Give that news bot call a day or two and see w |
| Re: Hashbangs, HTTPS, and Pending Sitemap Questions | Todd H. Lynch | 5/21/12 7:36 AM | FROM GOOGLE NEWS ======================================= Hi Todd, Google News does not crawl sites using HTTP Secure at this time. If this functionality is removed, then we can crawl and index your site's articles. Regards, The Google News Team M |
| Re: Hashbangs, HTTPS, and Pending Sitemap Questions | bobbygunn | 5/21/12 2:08 PM | Todd, What this is saying is that the redirect is not working like it should. Maybe someone with a more programming related background could help you on that end. I asked a friendto look at your details you had posted before about your redirect. He |
| Re: Hashbangs, HTTPS, and Pending Sitemap Questions | Todd H. Lynch | 5/21/12 2:42 PM | Hi Todd, As our crawler currently encounters your News sitemap, it is under HTTPS. If you can change this, specifically for your sitemap, it should improve crawling and indexing, while preserving the security of your user data. |
| Re: Hashbangs, HTTPS, and Pending Sitemap Questions | Todd H. Lynch | 5/21/12 2:43 PM | MY RESPONSE TO GOOGLE============================= Ah. That is because I submitted the URL to the webmaster tools for the HTTPS site. I have another webmaster tools setup for the HTTP version. You can see that the sitemap works with either URL: ht |
| Re: Hashbangs, HTTPS, and Pending Sitemap Questions | bobbygunn | 5/21/12 9:29 PM | Todd, You can add both the www version of your site in the same webmaster tools account as you have now for the http site. Add it and verify it and submit the sitemaps there. See if it takes it. If it doesn't i will flag this for Team to take a look |
| Re: Hashbangs, HTTPS, and Pending Sitemap Questions | Todd H. Lynch | 5/22/12 7:34 AM | Thanks. I now have webmaster tools set up for both HTTP and HTTPS and I submitted the sitemap to the HTTP account. It currently says the following: #SitemapTypeProcessedIssuesItemsSubmittedIndexed1/sitemap.xmlSitemapMay 21, 2012-Web12,1586,9202/to |
| Re: Hashbangs, HTTPS, and Pending Sitemap Questions | Todd H. Lynch | 5/22/12 9:14 AM | We appear to be in google news, thanks for your help. |
| Re: Hashbangs, HTTPS, and Pending Sitemap Questions | bobbygunn | 5/22/12 2:16 PM | Looks like it accepted it so just wait and see if it starts indexing. It can take a day or two sometimes. |
| Re: Hashbangs, HTTPS, and Pending Sitemap Questions | bobbygunn | 5/23/12 2:40 PM | Yes, i see you are getting indexed now. If you could send me an email with the redirect protocol you used i would be greatful so i can add it to my files on this matter. You can get my email through my profile pic or you can just post it here. |