Google Sitemaps

[digitalpoint]

Google is letting people make XML feeds of sitemaps to make crawling faster/easier.

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

[sji2671]

I tend to find if I go down on my knees crawling is much faster/easier.
[That was just childish n should be deleted,sorry!]

On any other forum........you would not even read .This,lol

[noppid]

Originally Posted by sji2671

I tend to find if I go down on my knees crawling is much faster/easier.
[That was just childish n should be deleted,sorry!]

On any other forum........you would not even read .This,lol

Are you home alone? lmao

I looked at this, I must be in a funk. I can't wrap my head around nuttin'!

[sji2671]

I guess its a different type of site that would need that much updating with regular news etc my site gets google raping it all over the place as is, its like watching something you shouldn't!

However for other sites I can see the good in it, were working towards more streamlined feeds, info is power, 2nd place is no place, and if its just for their benefit then I suppose were all willing :-)

[piniyini]

Seems a tad bit difficult to set up dont ya think? Well not for the digitalpoint man of course

[tflight]

I've got my first sitemap submitted for a simple, static site. Time to start bringing out the heavy tools for my large, dynamic sites.

http://www.timflight.com/2005/06/02/submit-google-sitemaps-xml/

[Blogmaster]

Originally Posted by piniyini

Seems a tad bit difficult to set up dont ya think? Well not for the digitalpoint man of course

It seems that way but since it comes from Google, it should be worth spending some time on it

[Dominic]

This is a great idea to save goog money sending it's spiders out, should also decrease the google spider visits to only when content changes.

[tflight]

I submitted my sitemap.xml and the status now shows "OK" with a downloaded time of 2 hours ago. Now to see how my experiments turned out the next time Googlebot comes around.

[Blogmaster]

Sitemaps are very important. I would take this very serious. I have passed it on to our coders right away

[ResaleBroker]

Ok, I've submitted my XML feed.

[60 seconds later]

Are we there yet?

[Infiniterb]

Crap. I take it I'll need to be able to telnet into my server in order to run the python script. If so, I don't think I have telnet access.

[stephenmunday]

Great heads-up!

All that codie stuff is right over my head, but hopefully someone here will be able to help me out with that....

[ResaleBroker]

If you need help go ahead and post and I'll do my best to help.

[Infiniterb]

NVM my first post. I got it configured right and a site map was created based on my access logs. Very slick IMO and was easy to setup.

[Dziku]

OK, php script for creating sitemap created, sitemap generated and submitted.... Let's wait and see what's gonna happend....

[Infiniterb]

Originally Posted by Dziku

OK, php script for creating sitemap created, sitemap generated and submitted.... Let's wait and see what's gonna happend....

Mind sharing that script?

[dyn4mik3]

Going to sleep now, but just wanted to tell everyone I wrote a script to generate a Google Sitemap for Wordpress sites. If anyone wants to take it and improve on it please do. Drop me an email if you do, I'd like a copy

Grab it here:
Wordpress script

If you need an overview of the Sitemap protocol, you might want to read this.

[SEbasic]

Nice.... Thank you.

[Blogmaster]

Indeed ... thanks a lot