thanks, ive just done some digging and found i have no topics therefore no topic-tag xml, which i guess is why google is getting a 404.

Strange… its the first time i have noticed topics in the wordpress menu lol, maybe i should be using them with categories and tags.

Hi, Yeah its yoast im using.

I changed a few setting like the format of posts pages etc to
%%title%% %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%
after reading a guide and also disabled authors archives and datebased archives and enabled Noindex subpages of archives.

The problem is i dont understand what these settings are really doing other than unnecesserily complicating my host space and the guide recommended making these changes, but i dont really understand the error.

I get a sitemap helps google update its search results better, but why does YOAST generate 7 sitemaps for my site. Im a little confused. Still im pointing google to /sitemap_index.xml

Any help appreciated. Ive made some changes to my page names and they havent been reflected in a google search for a few days, is it not updating because of this error, ie is clearing it important?

thanks Alin, it appears i havent requested the one time application to adsense for ads other than youtube,

i dont have any traffic on my site though just now, is there any ‘minimum’ or such that adsense looks at for approval?

Cheers,
Riy

Hi Brain,
The social buttons are working now thanks.
The ads still aren’t showing and they have been active for a day now.

Nice work i love video tutorials, especially for people like me with very little website experience!

Some more advanced ones also would be great.