SitemapXML v.2

Now, Bing.com wants me to do this:

1. Download the file BingSiteAuth.xml
2. Upload the file to root directory of your site https://galaxyhomedecor.us/sitemap.xml

Do I need to do this?

wmorris:

Now, Bing.com wants me to do this:

1. Download the file BingSiteAuth.xml
2. Upload the file to root directory of your site https://galaxyhomedecor.us/sitemap.xml

Do I need to do this?

Need to? No. You don't need to do anything. But they use it to verify you own the site, so it's a good idea.

I had to resubmit the sitemap.

So bing discovered the sitemap no problem.

Now the crawl is giving me this:

The inspected URL is known to Bing but has some issues which are preventing indexation. We recommend you to follow Bing Webmaster Guidelines to increase your chances of indexation.

Now, google wants me to verify my domain ether using:

HTML file.
HTML Tag.
Google Analytics.
Google Tag Manager.
or Domain name provider.

You will need to do as google requests to prove you are the owner etc.
Easist way id probably the html file.
If you add the supplied file to your webserver google will know you have full access etc. Else you could set this up on your competitors website to see what is going on!

Well, according to google some or most pages fail because of this "Alternate page with proper canonical tag". How can I fix this?

wmorris:

Well, according to google some or most pages fail because of this "Alternate page with proper canonical tag". How can I fix this?

Making sure your SSL, and your ultimate URL match should take care of it.

If your SSL is set for https://www.yoursite.com, all URLs should be redirected to wind up at https://www.yoursite.com.

A 301 can be done in cPanel or equivalent controllers or added to your root's .htaccess file.

All e-commerce sites should be forced to https://. That can be done in cPanel or .htaccess as well. Of course, both configure.php files should be set for https:// as well.

Google and other SEs look at the following sites as duplicates:

https://www.yoursite.com
yoursite.com
test.yoursite.com (if the same data from your main site is located there for testing)

There are ways of letting Google and the other SEs know that test.yoursite.com is not a duplicate but that's another story.

I am not using ultimate URL. Should I use it? Also, the site is directing to https://yourdomain.com instead of https://www.yourdomain.com

dbltoe:

Making sure your SSL, and your ultimate URL match should take care of it.

If your SSL is set for https://www.yoursite.com, all URLs should be redirected to wind up at https://www.yoursite.com.

A 301 can be done in cPanel or equivalent controllers or added to your root's .htaccess file.

All e-commerce sites should be forced to https://. That can be done in cPanel or .htaccess as well. Of course, both configure.php files should be set for https:// as well.

Google and other SEs look at the following sites as duplicates:

https://www.yoursite.com
yoursite.com
test.yoursite.com (if the same data from your main site is located there for testing)

There are ways of letting Google and the other SEs know that test.yoursite.com is not a duplicate but that's another story.

Ultimate/Friendly URLs are a whole other discussion.

Try adding the following to your .htaccess and use cPanel to aid in forcing the site to https://

RewriteEngine OnRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Ok, Yahoo, Bing and Google isn't crawling my site using the sitemap it has been 3 weeks and the site hasn't indexing. I did everything. I don't know what to do.

wmorris:

Ok, Yahoo, Bing and Google isn't crawling my site using the sitemap it has been 3 weeks and the site hasn't indexing. I did everything. I don't know what to do.
Based on your previous posts, I'd check:

1. That the site's /includes/configure.php references the correct HTTP_SERVER and HTTPS_SERVER (https://www.mydomain.com or https://mydomain.com). Both should be the same and both should be https:// based.
2. That the site's .htaccess file is (like @dbltoe identified above) performing a redirect to the 'correct' server, as identified in the configure.php.
3. Ensure that the site's robots.txt points the search engines to the generated sitemap.xml file, again using the 'correct' server.

Everything is correct.

lat9:

Based on your previous posts, I'd check:

1. That the site's /includes/configure.php references the correct HTTP_SERVER and HTTPS_SERVER (https://www.mydomain.com or https://mydomain.com). Both should be the same and both should be https:// based.
2. That the site's .htaccess file is (like @dbltoe identified above) performing a redirect to the 'correct' server, as identified in the configure.php.
3. Ensure that the site's robots.txt points the search engines to the generated sitemap.xml file, again using the 'correct' server.

wmorris:

Ok, Yahoo, Bing and Google isn't crawling my site using the sitemap it has been 3 weeks and the site hasn't indexing. I did everything. I don't know what to do.

Maybe they just haven't gotten to it yet. Does your Search Console report show any crawling errors?

Oddly enough, the fastest any site i've done has gotten crawled was when I post the link on this forum:P

This is the errors I am getting!!!!

Those are not errors!!!! And no need to shout :-)

What's at the top of that page that you cut off? That will show you the indexed and not-indexed pages. Something link this:
https://screenrec.com/share/bZqViW4KdR

Ok here is the top one!

jeking:

Those are not errors!!!! And no need to shout :-)

What's at the top of that page that you cut off? That will show you the indexed and not-indexed pages. Something link this:
https://screenrec.com/share/bZqViW4KdR

There you have it, Google IS crawling and indexing your pages. You cannot control what pages they crawl. You cannot control when or if they they put them in their index. All you can do is be sure that they are crawlable....and they are.

So, give Google sometime crawl the whole website/product pages...

wmorris:

So, give Google sometime crawl the whole website/product pages...

Yep, it usually doesn't but can take weeks or months.