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Originally Posted by Geoserv

I added al the suggestions in the article.

I have a couple of questions.

1. My URLs are now showing underscores and dashes, i.e. Bare Choons - Sneaky Trick for Accessing the Web / Top Stumbles

Is this normal?

2. My sitemap xml doesn't show any sitemap, below is its content:



Any ideas?

Geoserv.

When using the hyphen fix "-" in place of the underscore, all previous titles in the database will not be affected by the change... only newly created titles will start using the hyphen fix. So yes, it's normal to have some titles that are still using the underscore (_) in their titles because they have already been written to the database. If this bothers you, then all you need to do is modify the title from the admin section and press save, then it should now display the new title with hyphens instead of the underscore. But I wouldn't do that if I were you, as it would create duplicate content. Just leave the old urls the way they are.

As for the sitemap, the link you are viewing is the sitemap index, which displays all the sitemap files google will index. If you copy and paste one of the xml links displayed, such as http://www.topstumbles.com/sitemap-0.xml, then you will see stories, links, etc.