The best way to index search engines

[jcdesign]

I was upgrade my site for about 2 weeks ago to IPS4.

When doing searches at google, the hits are much worser than before upgrading.

What is the best way to indexing my site? I want to index My Downloads "Files" system.

[Gnuru]

I am using ips 4 with downloads successfully. Google ranks lots of my files in high positions. My advice:

• Check with google webmaster tools and submit your /files directory to it
• Make sure that your sitemap contains the "Download" section and priority is set to 1.0 (although they claim to not use the priority). Submit your sitemap to google.
• Check your h1 tags when viewing a file and make sure it contains your keywords
• Check your description and make sure it contains your keywords
• You can use bing webmaster tools to check onpage seo ranking factors... (quite useful)

[jcdesign]

Thank you so much for this info.

I´m trying to link the sitemap. Webmaster tools tells me that sitemap.php are in html and does not support.

[Gnuru]

Please provide a link to your domain so I can have a look at your files and sitemap...

[jcdesign]

The site is still dead after Gnuru´s advice, no activity from googlebot or other search engines. Before in 3.4 Googlebot crawling all the time.

Any other who can help me?