which one is more important ?? sitemap or rss ? cause i created a site, done the site map but rss ain't work ....
The both are very important for a website. Sitemap guides the search engine to crawl better on your website. An RSS feed helps you to promote your website better. No wonder, search engines gives more priority for RSS feeds
You might check this RSS/ROR/XML/HTML/XHTML sitemaps guide. It explains and shows code examples of all sitemap file kinds usually mentioned in connnection with sitemaps
can any one define RSS in a more general way.i understand by RSS a visitor gets automatic information of new articles if he has subscribed .what does RSS means other than this
Sitemap is for search engines and RSS is for your subscriber reader. Both must work on your site to get visits.
Both serve a different purpuse. A sitemap is for the search engines to find you (submit your sitemap to Google webmasters tool) or di it via submitexpress.com for instance. Rss is about more about you inbound link strategy and getting external news for instance.
You, also can define your sitemaps in robots.txt like this one: User-agent: * Allow: / Sitemap: http://site.com/sitemap.xml Sitemap: http://site.com/videositemap.xml Code (markup):