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on 01/11/2009 at 6:07:18PM
Total Posts: 2
Original Post:
i recently took out this service , i had a good site but a fantastic site ,
i tried in vain to add site maps that google recognised, i tried in vain to get google to verify my site and then was told that site map builder does not work properly with google . I was told by freeola technical support that site builder was only meant for people that didnt know HTML and that it is not meant for adding any thing additional.
i called freeola today regarding my sit emap problem that they was supposed of sorted out on thursday , but yet google still cant see all my pages , in fact google cant see any of my pages. i have now cancelled my subscription after being a freeola customer for 5 years.
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Dragonlance
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Regular
on 01/11/2009 at 6:46:09PM
Edited: 1/11/09 19:52
Total Posts: 1475
stevehaley wrote:
> i recently took out this service , i had a good site but a
> fantastic site ,
> i tried in vain to add site maps that google recognised, i tried
> in vain to get google to verify my site and then was told that
> site map builder does not work properly with google . I was told
> by freeola technical support that site builder was only meant for
> people that didnt know HTML and that it is not meant for adding
> any thing additional.
> i called freeola today regarding my sit emap problem that they
> was supposed of sorted out on thursday , but yet google still
> cant see all my pages , in fact google cant see any of my pages.
> i have now cancelled my subscription after being a freeola
> customer for 5 years.

Shame that you have decided to cancel an obviously excellent service, seeing as you have been with Freeola for 5 years and posted twice.

Perhaps your answer lies here:

Google verification problems

It may be Google and not Freeola Instant Site Web Builder.....
ceramicman
New User
on 01/11/2009 at 7:57:50PM
Total Posts: 4
I started using builder last week and google can see my pages fine without a submitted sitemap. I also asked out google webmaster tools verfication problem and got a quick response so that should be sorted soon. Using webuilder has it's limits, but for us it is a good solution if changes have to made on the spot and a novice can do it.
Eccles
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on 01/11/2009 at 8:41:12PM
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Indeed. Unfortunately this was a Google issue which they did not inform users of. This meant we had to re-write the verfication process used with Instant Sites. As this meant a switch to the meta tag verification we though we might as well write a whole meta tag system to allow users to manage their tags if the wish to.
InstantPro generates a sitemap automatically each time you add or delete a page, however as site could not be verified Google would not show the sitemap as available in Webmaster Tools.
If you had waited until this week you would have been able to verify your site again as meta tag system is due to go live.
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Regular
on 02/11/2009 at 12:11:09PM
Total Posts: 1681
Hi,
It's a shame your first posts on the forum are to say you are leaving!

If you had posted your query here others will always try to help you.

As others have said the Google verification issue is a known one and is being fixed. The change Google made has affected many 'template' based web building s/w and blogs etc. not just Freeola.

FWIW Google sitemaps and verification certainly aren't required to get your website indexed on Google. They can help if you are having trouble getting your pages indexed but good content and clean SEO are more important.



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Warhunt
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on 02/11/2009 at 1:42:19PM
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I tried to explain the below to the customer at the time of his cancellation, but it seems the problems were too major for him. It really is a shame as the the site was looking pretty good.

At no point was it said we were not compatible with Google, merely that Google Webmaster Tools could not be used successfully at the moment.
Bob
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on 03/11/2009 at 9:56:45AM
Total Posts: 47
Just in case anyone finds this thread in future, Google site verification now works on InstantPro again. As Eccles mentioned we've also added a whole meta tag section under webmaster tools.
 
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