Google SiteMaps

[Foxy]

Has anybody gone down this route yet?

https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login

I'm doing so now but it is a little tricky with getting shelll access on the webserver :rolleyes:

[jebby]

I'm thinking of giving it a shot. Sounds like it could be a good thing to do.

[ServerUnion]

try a search on this, a few good threads already started. BTW: you dont need shell access.

If you dont want to go the code route you can always use crawlers like: http://www.sitemapspal.com/

[T0PS3O]

Or you can quite simply build it dynamically from your database or statically from your access logs.

I'll be implementing a dynamic solution somewhere during the next few weeks. No rush.

[Foxy]

Am I missing something?

It's the google xml connection that I want

So why would I be able to do it without the route google is telling me.....

[mopacfan]

Does anyone know what the xml output file should look like for creating the xml w/o the python install?

[T0PS3O]

This is mine, copied and pasted from browser so has some -'s in it.


This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

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<urlset>
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<url>
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<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=35
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-03-30</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>1.0</priority>
</url>
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<url>
-
<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=31
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-06-02</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.8</priority>
</url>
-
<url>
-
<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=33
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-06-02</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.6</priority>
</url>
-
<url>
-
<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=34
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-03-29</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.6</priority>
</url>
-
<url>
-
<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=28
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-06-02</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.4</priority>
</url>
-
<url>
-
<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=37
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-04-24</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.3</priority>
</url>
-
<url>
-
<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=42
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-06-02</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.3</priority>
</url>
-
<url>
-
<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=45
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-06-06</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.3</priority>
</url>
-
<url>
-
<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=29
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-06-02</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.3</priority>
</url>
-
<url>
-
<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=32
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-06-02</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.2</priority>
</url>
-
<url>
-
<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=38
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-03-29</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.2</priority>
</url>
-
<url>
-
<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=44
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-06-02</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.1</priority>
</url>
-
<url>
-
<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=30
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-03-29</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.1</priority>
</url>
-
<url>
-
<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=40
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-06-02</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.1</priority>
</url>
-
<url>
-
<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=41
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-06-02</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.1</priority>
</url>
-
<url>
-
<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=43
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-06-02</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.1</priority>
</url>
-
<url>
-
<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=36
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-03-30</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.1</priority>
</url>
</urlset>

[hans]

does anyone know which other major search engines also accept the Google sitemap as URL-submission mode ??

[Stin]

none, asfaik, I think they are trying to start a new standard for all search engines

[mopacfan]

I created several and they all have been accepted. I hope that this will generate positive results and get a deeper crawl through some of the database generated content.

[hans]

me too i started 3 sitemaps

1. for static files - the easiest one to maintain
2. for dynamic files created from access_log offline - it used too much resources online the first time i ran it - hence the offline creation
3. for the newest chapters - this sitemap is maintained manually

- all accepted - all downloaded usually within an hours - and it seems that Google is re-downloading the sitemaps even without re-submission after 12 hours

[mopacfan]

Yea, I noticed that as well. I think it's pretty cool.

[toddieg]

everyone please keep us updated on the progress of this new project. i haven't submitted any sitemaps yet, and would like to hear some user experiences.

[T0PS3O]

Well, Google can't find mine, some DNS resolving issue at their ISP. Everything fine from my end. Have to sit and wait a while...

[mopacfan]

everyone please keep us updated on the progress of this new project. i haven't submitted any sitemaps yet, and would like to hear some user experiences.
It certainly can't hurt.

[Hank]

I've used http://www.sitemapxml.com/ for one of my sites. It's been an awesome experience so far. Had a bunch of dynamic PHP pages that weren't in the index that are now! More traffic, broader keyword appeal.

Hank