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Thanks to Alan, who left a comment suggesting I add google sitemaps to my Whypark sites. Today I went ahead and did this and I’ll be monitoring the results.

This is the procedure for adding a Google sitemap to a Whypark site:

1. Log into www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

2. Log into Whypark and copy to the clipboard the domain name you wish to add a sitemap for

3.  Paste this into the google webmasters tools add site field and click on add site

4. Click on “Verify your site” and then in the “Choose verification method” dropdown choose “Add a meta tag”. Copy to the clipboard the tag ‘<meta name=”verify-v1″ content=…………………./>’

5. In Whypark click “edit” for the domain and paste this into the “Google Sitemap Verification (Meta tag verification method)” field, and click “submit”.

6. In the google webmasters tools window click the “Verify” button.  Verification should be successful, otherwise check you carried out step 5 correctly or maybe the site is not live (did you update the nameservers of the domain?)

7.  In the google webmasters tools window click “Sitemaps” and “Add a sitemap”.  Choose “add general web sitemap”.  The sitemap url is yoursite.com/google-sitemap.cfm. Fill this in. Then click on “Add general web sitemap”

You are done

Yesterday I noticed that some of my domain names at Dynadot had Dynadot’s expiring whois info (e.g. contact e-mail was set to: expired@dynadot.com although in my account control panel I have set the e-mail to the correct one and the domain was not expiring). I sent an e-mail to Dynadot support and received the following reply:

Hello,

Your WHOIS information should now be updated.

If you every experience this again with domains you purchase at auction, try setting your Name Servers again.  For example, your domain name ????.com, is using fastparks Name Servers.  If you set it to use Dynadot Parking and then changing it right back to using fastparks Name Servers, your WHOIS information should be updated within about 15-20 minutes.

Best Regards,
Dynadot Staff

Well there you go. This sounds weird.

I am trying out the following sites at Whypark

1. BaseballBalloons.com
2. BaseballBatPens.com
3. FishingCake.com
4. FishingCatalogues.com
5. JapaneseTranslations.org
6. OvarianNeoplasms.com
7. TilingProjects.com
8. TranslationToJapanese.com

I want to see if these get listed in Google and if they get visitors. I just used the default layout and quite simple meta tags. I plan to leave them for a few months and see what happens. I’ll keep visitors here updated on this. Also, I’d love to hear your comments or experiences with Whypark.

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