I dont know since when it is happening but since the last post i made i cannot see the Individual post pages accesible! I've asked many people in different parts of the world to see but all told me its not accessible. E.g http://www.funbie.com/blog can be accessed, but individual post page like http://www.funbie.com/blog/205/and-...ce-of-pakistan-after-suspension-by-musharraf/ cannot be acceses although it was quite well 2 days back!!! I am not sure what could be the cause but do you people have any idea why is it happening?
Update your .htacess file. Also I can give you a quick solution. Change your blog permalink structure to default.
But what exactly could the problem be? it was all well since i posted last? BTW the current Blog Permalink structure is more SE Friendly! i think!!! changing the structure prior to the update is just like loosing out on your PR and all the hard work done
Yes Sir.. You are right about losing PR juice.The problem in your case is .htacess file. This will help you http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks Just scroll to middle of that page and see the section Where's my .htaccess file? hope it helps.
Update your permalinks, and you'll get a message like : "if your .htaccess file were writable, this code would be added : code code code code" Locate your .htaccess and add the code. Might help.
I dont think everytime such message is popped. Most of the time you simply get the message "Permalink structure saved,update your .htacess now" or sometjing like that.
This message is all the way down the page, so perhaps you didn't see it? Also, might depend on the WP version... not too sure about that.
actually i have the .htaccess file for my my Wordpress in the ROOT/BLOG folder and i installed a 4Images script in the ROOT Folder which also had a .htacess file!!! this caused my blog's .htaccess file to change to a different name which was .htacess.123545 something like that!!! What i did was i deleted the 4Images script .htacess file, and renamed the wordpress one back to .htacess , its fixed now but what bothers me is this was for as good as 2 days, will Google ban me for this because in the past i heard many directories and site got banned and De Indexed when playing with there .htaccess files!!! and btw the 4Images .htacess file is uploaded again and both seem to be working fine now, the blog as well as the ROOT script!!! Thanks anyways!
There's nothing wrong with you changing permalinks structure, and if your site was down for 2 days, nothing will happen. Make sure you use Webmaster Tools.
Do you really think submitting a Sitemap is necessary? although i get good Google love for my Feeds that are powered by Feedburner, so i guess its being crawled quite well
from SEO point of view, sitemaps are very imp. So do submit it to google. In case of wordpress you can use sitemap generator plugin. Also I think it will be a good step to remove feed from google. feed and blog have same content and may lead to duplicate content penalty. But as you have mentioned that you are getting gool google love because of your feed, so let it remain as it is.