Hi All,

I have the below on my .htaccess file, it was a standard layout i found online, my site still has not been crawled by Google and it has been 4 weeks, is there a more better structure I should be using for my .htaccess file, and what text should I use to alert google of my site map, i have seen online I should add "Sitemap: http://mywebsite.co.uk/sitemap.xml" will this work?


<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>


Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine on


SetEnv HTTP_MOD_REWRITE On

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]


RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^212\.67\.220\.105$ [NC,OR]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([a-z.]+)?mydomainname\.co.uk$ [NC]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80


RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.gif$)|(\.jpg$)|(\.png$)|(\.css$)|(\.js$)

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)$

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f


RewriteRule ^category/([^/.]*)/?$ /categories.php?cat=$1 [QSA,nc,L,B]
RewriteRule ^products/([^/.]*)/?$ /products.php?cat=$1 [QSA,nc,L,B]
RewriteRule ^manufacturer/?$ /categories.php?man=all [QSA,nc,L,B]
RewriteRule ^manufacturer/([^/.]*)/?$ /products.php?man=$1 [QSA,nc,L,B]
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)$ proddetail.php?prod=$1 [QSA,nc,L,B]


</IfModule>

You should have (if not create) a Google search console account (formerly google webmaster tools) and in there, you tell google about your site and where your sitemap is located.
That's probably the best way.

Thanks,
David

And your robots.txt file should contain this entry to reveal the location of your sitemap.xml file:
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
User-agent: *
Sitemap: https://mywebsite.co.uk/sitemap.xml
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Gary

Gary,

This is a great help.

Am i right in thinking that I should perhaps add a dissalow for vsadmin

User-agent: *
Sitemap: https://bagswithclass.co.uk/sitemap.xml
Disallow: https://bagswithclass.co.uk/vsadmin

?