tutorsu1

Thanks for your quick reply Jonathan.
I posted the tag in the custom text box and customized the page permalink on the page edit page, to a ‘prettier’ name, and then no longer got a page not found, but the page loaded with the original url, and no sign of the pretty permalink in the address bar.
Any ideas?

Ps. I have yoast, but it doesn’t seem to matter whether I have the force rewrite titles check box checked or not.
I have tried pages which aren’t my main page, and there is no difference. I have tried adding a trailing slash, and without, and it makes no difference.

Thank you very much for your advice. It really helps clear things up for me. I knew that you could add .php files to the child directory, but it hadn’t occurred to me to copy the parent one over and edit that one. Because it’s in the child directory, it would get used in preference to a .php file in the parent folder.
May I ask another quetiont? If a child template seems to work in different browsers, is that ok, or is there a danger that deleting some objects that I didn’t want on the template will mess up SEO? Or perhaps mean something else doesn’t work?
Thanks again
yours
Robin

Please correct me if I’m wrong, but css is for editing the format/look of pages, but what if I want to add writing to the header? How can I do that without editing the php? I can edit the text in the body of the post or page with the page/blog edit in the dashboard, but I don’t see how to do that for the header or the footer. Is there a way to get a text input into the header? I think I can do it for the sidebar, because there is a widget to do this.
Thanks for your help

OK, it was not in the directory tutorsurrey.net, but in public.html. This may have been the problem, but I just read someone on the google forum saying it didn’t matter where it was, so I can’t be sure it was the issue.
Anyhow, I ran xml sitemap generator again, with tutorsurey.net as the location, and with automatic location switched on, and it ended up in domain directory.
But even then it wasn’t until I clicked submit on google webmaster tools that it appeared on webmaster tools. Alelulah.
But sitemap generator says, after completion, that google has been notified. So what is the point of notifying google if I am going to have to submit the sitemap myself?

Robin

Thanks for your reply Ezmi. Can someone tell me if there is a way to automatically do this?
With Blogger if you self host, you automatically blog on their main site.This is much better for SEO.
Some further guidance would really be appreciated.
Robin