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I have the same question. Is this not the best place to ask?

I’m trying to do the same thing panhead, only I do want to have links in the columns.

I want to have a page that lists one column of links to external blog posts about my subject matter, and another with links to external forum threads about it.

I have a similar need. I want to create a “thank you for your payment” page that is not listed on the sidebar for obvious reasons.

Well I’ve become very frustrated that my site isn’t showing up with Google. I realize my blog is relatively new, but there are few websites with the keywords and content pertinent to my subject matter.

Google accepted my sitemap over a month ago and my site is indexed with them. My site has been validating since I made it. I think I have a decent amount of content since there is so little information available on the subject elsewhere. Finally today I switched to pretty permalinks and I hope that will help. I’m going to try removing the date from the url and see if that causes any issues.

Thank goodness for my clunky ol’ blogspot blog, at least it’s showing up on searches.

Au contraire!

Thanks again mosey. Being that I’m such a noob I think your advice is good. I’ll let the more knowledgeable folks work the bugs out.

Hey guys, I have a quick question about the upgrade to wp 2.6. I’m still at the stage where a 15 minute task might take me hours to figure out because I’m still learning the language.

How important is it for me to upgrade? How soon? I currently use 2.5 and I have a unique domain instead of a .wordpress.com blog. So far I’m happy with the way 2.5 is functioning.

My site

Thanks gbali!

Thanks mosey, I’m going to work on some of those suggestions. I’ve been meaning to change my links to words, and I like the idea of the post title before the blog name.

I get the impression that getting indexed with google won’t happen until I get linked to on substantial (in google’s eyes) websites. A decent number of people are still finding me through my various forum posts and YouTube videos.

I’m using Google Analytics for this site and my earlier Blogger site. I haven’t taken the time yet to study the keywords very much. Do you emphasize use of the popular keywords in posts?

I’ve added the sitemap plugin and submitted my site to Google but I’m still not indexed. From what I understand this could take months. I just registered my blog with Technorati hoping that will help people find it.

Done and done!

I hope this does it! Thanks again mosey. ??

Here’s what it says when I click the Sitemap link for my site:

Submit a Sitemap to tell Google about pages on your site we might not otherwise discover.

I wonder if it makes sense to follow Google Webmaster’s procedure for submitting a sitemap.

It’s been 3 days since I added the Google XML sitemaps plugin and so far Google Webmaster tools says no pages from my site are indexed and no sitemap has been submitted. I did register my site with Google 2 days ago.

Does this normally take days, weeks, or months?

it should be just a matter of uploading the files, activating the plugin, and then sit back and watch Google visit your site

Oh. Thank you. ??

I appreciate your kindness mosey, if you ever need any fly larvae you just say the word!

mrkingid, thanks for trying to explain your critique to me, but I don’t think I get it. What exactly would you do to correct the problem that you see? My whole idea was to leave the site plain so that readers attention would be focused on the photos and the content. I don’t see how adding color randomly would make the site feel more conversational, if that’s what you mean.

mosey, I’m having some trouble getting started with Google sitemaps. I think I understand about creating the two files (can I use notepad?), but I’m not sure where to drag them to on the server side of Filezilla. If I haven’t mentioned it before I’m very new to computers.

Is it php_uploads? That folder is empty now.

I’m really confused about my blog not showing up on google. I haven’t found a set of search terms that will make it come up at all. My subject matter is very narrow and I would think that after a month my new blog should be at least on the 30th page of results! My YouTube videos and my old Blogger blog on the same subject show up fairly high in the results and most aren’t much older than my wp blog…