: In Google Webmaster Tools we have 3 sitemaps attributed to 1 domain I have a website that has been on the internet for almost 10 years created in "Microsoft FrontPage" with over 900 pages.
I have a website that has been on the internet for almost 10 years created in "Microsoft FrontPage" with over 900 pages. Currently in Google Webmaster tools it shows up as 2 domains and 3 sitemaps:
www.example.com example.com
hostedsitemaps.com
Furthermore, since we were having hard to placing the XML sitemap on our site(FrontPage Issues) we decided to hire pro-sitemaps.com to create, host and upload the XML file which they did. Thus, I have another site hostedsitemaps.com on our webmaster tools for the site.
Hostedsitemaps.com displays:
900 urls submitted 800 Indexed.
Crawl errors and Search queries: No data available.
example.com displays:
889 URLs submitted 1 URLs indexed.
Crawl Errors: 14 Soft 404 796 Not found
Search Queries: 8104
example.com displays:
889 URLs submitted 1 URLs indexed
Crawl errors: 48 Soft 404 91 Not found
Search Queries: 8104
My questions and need for help are as followed:
1. Why are our domain based sites in webmaster tools (example.com and example.com) showing only 1 URL indexed while the hostedsitemap.com has 800 indexed?
2. Should we have 3 domains configured for this "one" domain in Google Webmaster tools?
3. Should we eliminate/delete the hostedsitemap.com from webmaster tools completely and take off that XML sitemap?
4 Does having example.com and example.com impact web ranking?
5. Any other thoughts or help in this very complicated matter for us.
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You have an old and outdated architecture, so it's pretty hard to make any actionable recommendation. What I would do :
Remove the external sitemap file on hostedsitmaps.com, an external sitemap is not a sign of quality. Host it on your site.
Redirect with 301 example.com to example, or the other way. Choice example or .example then stick with it. If your site exists on both version, it is a total duplicate issue, Google has to choose with URL to serve on every relevant query, and Google is not happy with that.
Implement proper 404 pages, looks like you have soft 404 pages (HTTP header is not 404).
Crawl your site with Xenu, Screaming Frog or Integrity to detect and remove all broken internal links that may exist.
You should then have example and .example in WMT, you may even have only the chosen version in WMT (depends on the validation method used).
Last but not least, move all the content to another technical platform. All these recommendations should be done very quickly. If this is not the case, you better switch to pure html, PHP or something else.
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