Blogpost specific Tags but without showing in post -. possible?

[Heroic_Nonsense (Erwin Leerentveld)]

@Bruno is right - if Google thinks two (or more) pages look similar, it expects you to add the canonical tag to point it to the original page that the others are derived from.

The problem with this is, that most websites use a similar banner, side column and footer. If the content on a page is (above a certain percentage) too similar, Google will think you’re simply copying pages within your site and will only index one of them.

To prevent this, add the following to the HEAD section of your page inspector on each and every page listed by google:

<link rel="canonical" href="YOUR-URL-GOES-HERE" />

…where YOU-URL-GOES-HERE should be the URL to the page where you’re adding this bit of code too, so Google understands that this is a unique page and not a copy of another page on your site. Mind that the URL should be between quotes.

This is where to paste that code in RapidWeaver:

Cheers,
Erwin

[Jonte0 (Johan G)]

Thanks!

How about … Sitemap?

How can I see it? In RW?

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[Heroic_Nonsense (Erwin Leerentveld)]

Without external tooling, RapidWeaver generates a standard sitemap automatically. You can’t view it from within RapidWeaver, but you can see what RapidWeaver generated by going to:

https://yourwebsite.com/sitemap.xml

You can’t modify the sitemap with standard RapidWeaver (other than removing the check mark for ‘Index this page’, which removes the page from the sitemap), but if you really need to, there are tools for that.

What is it that you’d like to change in the sitemap.xml?

Cheers,
Erwin

[Jonte0 (Johan G)]

Thanks you very much!

I don’t want to change anything, just want to see what google sees…
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[Jonte0 (Johan G)]

I get this:

Summary

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

ur lset xm l ns=“http ://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9”></ur lset

That was all…

(had to squash the above line or it was not shown… why cant I embed a picture here?)

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@Jonte0

why cant I embed a picture here?

Because you are a new forum user. When your user status moves up one level, you will be able to post media.

[Jonte0 (Johan G)]

I think I registered first time 2006-06-01 ;-D but you removed me somehow

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[Jonte0 (Johan G)]

OK, the actual content of the file is 4 lines::

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">

</urlset>

It contains 3 pages; a main page which is a Blog, one page Style Text and a Contact Form.

Blog refere to Styled text and Contact page.

Very simple…

Thats it.

But why no Sitemap reflecting this?

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@Jonte0

I think I registered first time 2006-06-01 ;-D but you removed me somehow

Don’t think we were using Discourse (this forum platform) in 2006. Pretty sure it was Vanilla forums, but that long ago…the details are fuzzy.

I can manually bump your level up then, no worries.

You should be able to post screenshots now. Let me know if you have troubles with it.

[Heroic_Nonsense (Erwin Leerentveld)]

Ooh… that’s odd.

Could you check if this checkbox is checked (…) on all pages?

Cheers,
Erwin

[Jonte0 (Johan G)]

I appreciate your support!

Yes, it looks exactly like that in my RW. On an all pages.

But now I took away on the Contact form page… don’t think that is needed really…

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[Heroic_Nonsense (Erwin Leerentveld)]

Hmmm, ok.

Could you do the following?

1. Open your project file in RapidWeaver
2. Click File > Re-Publish All Files

This should recreate the sitemap file - it should then list all the pages where that checkbox from my previous post is checked.

Cheers,
Erwin

[Jonte0 (Johan G)]

No improvement I’m afraid. I did an Export Site and it was the same…

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[Jonte0 (Johan G)]

I’m using this “Google Search Console”… I made a “kind” report of my experiance and just now I see a red bell - checking that gave at hand:

“We are validating the measures for the problems with Indexing of pages for the website persept.se
March 4, 2024
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Indexing of pages
Sent to all relevant property users”

Interesting, but perhaps without sitemap it will not go so well… - and now you have the domain to my creation

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[Jonte0 (Johan G)]

@ dang - why dont I have a sitemap do you think?

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@Jonte0

@ dang - why dont I have a sitemap do you think?

Not sure, can you send your project file to us so we can take a look? There a guide here on how to share your project file. Send to support (at) realmacsoftware (dot) com.

[Jonte0 (Johan G)]

Sent you a message.

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[dang]

Got it.

So your pages aren’t appearing in your Sitemap because you have the box “Show in navigation” deselected. RapidWeaver won’t add the pages to the sitemap.xml file if you have that box deselected.

If you don’t want to show your pages in a navigation menu, you’ll need to manually build the sitemap.xml file and upload it to your server in the root web directory. You can add the pages to your existing sitemap.xml file that you posted in your screenshot a few comments back.

Here’s some documentation for Google on how to build your sitemap.xml file.

If you encounter any troubles let us know.

[Jonte0 (Johan G)]

OK - got it!

Must have been mentioned above and I still couldn’t pick up on it…

But again, my wish for a clean look made me take them away - in such a simple site, there is no need.

I think RW should have an option to still build a sitemap even if one opt out on “navigation buttons” - the relations and logical navigation is still there in terms of links on the site.

I’ll check the linked info - thanks Dan!

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[Jonte0 (Johan G)]

So I thought I found out a good idea and ticked the “Navigation” options and Exported the site and uploaded an edited version of Sitemap.xml.

But soon realised that it will be over written every time I publish a new blog entry :-/

Is there a way around that… ?

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