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Webmaster Tools doesn't like my page set pattern


I'm trying to use the highlighting feature on Webmaster tools. I got done filling it out for my page, but when I go and try to create the page set, it doesn't find any files matching the pattern.

The default pattern that google chose is:

http://www.example.com/*/*/*/*

That's not good enough because that's everything on my site.

What I want is this:

http://www.example.com/Team/Schedule/*/*

It can't find this. The first asterisk is just the id, and the second * is the name associated with that id.

I tried adding this:

http://www.example.com/Team/Schedule/*

It can't find anything here either.

This DOES work

http://www.example.com/Team/*/*/*

So, why doesn't the pattern that I want get recognized? I've even tried copying and pasting in the "Team/Schedule" portion to make I didn't misspell, but that still doesn't work.

Edit:

the "template" path that I used for the highlighting looks like this:

http://www.example.com/Team/Schedule/105/Bears

And similar pages would be:

http://www.example.com/Team/Schedule/52/Vikings

Solution

  • This was a result of Google containing an old cached version of my page structures. I had just recently updated the structure, and Google had not re-crawled to get those changes.