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Google Sitemaps FAQ

Discussion in 'Google Sitemaps' started by astup1didiot, Oct 27, 2007.

  1. WilsonA

    WilsonA Active Member

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    #21
    I have a quick question most of my sites are small sites 5- 10 pages
    can I just create a htm or html page with all the link and submit to
    google webmaster central as my sitemap?
    because I am having a problem with these softwares, also how do
    you submit your site map to yahoo?

    thanks
     
    WilsonA, Dec 16, 2007 IP
  2. astup1didiot

    astup1didiot Notable Member

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    #22
    Technically yes, but it would only work on a server you have root access to since you would have to set a cron table, or unless its directly embedded into your CMS script. I would just suggest if your just adding 4 to 5 pages to use wordpad. You can use the replace funcation to edit modification dates across the board if you want to.
     
    astup1didiot, Dec 17, 2007 IP
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    astup1didiot Notable Member

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    #23

    http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ is where you submit your sitemap to Yahoo!.

    You can create a XML sitemap in notepad if you really want, it's not that hard and if it only needs 5-10 pages then go for it! You must use XML format since it's the standard for majority of the search engines. Below is an example of XML code. It contains 2 URLs, one to the homepage and home to the links page, you should be able to figure it out from there...

    
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
       <url>
          <loc>http://www.example.com/</loc>
          <lastmod>2007-12-17</lastmod>
          <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
          <priority>0.5</priority>
          <loc>http://www.example.com/links.html</loc>
          <lastmod>2007-12-17</lastmod>
          <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
          <priority>0.5</priority>
       </url>
    </urlset>
    
    Code (markup):
    You can review http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php if you need to.
     
    astup1didiot, Dec 17, 2007 IP
  4. WilsonA

    WilsonA Active Member

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    #24
    it keeps giving me this with all my sites

    [​IMG]

    same lines, does anyone know why?
     
    WilsonA, Dec 24, 2007 IP
  5. astup1didiot

    astup1didiot Notable Member

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    #25
    What is the URL to your sitemap?
     
    astup1didiot, Dec 24, 2007 IP
  6. WilsonA

    WilsonA Active Member

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    EDIT

    thanks Longhaul, that was the problem
     
    WilsonA, Dec 24, 2007 IP
  7. LongHaul

    LongHaul Peon

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    #27
    You've got two different sets of tags in the same <url>~</url> tags. They should each be in a different one.

    Add this at the end of each location:
    </url>
    <url>
    Code (markup):
    And it should be ok.

    (Notice how it says Total URLs in sitemap: 1, when actually you have two. It counts them by <url> tags.)
     
    LongHaul, Dec 24, 2007 IP
  8. WilsonA

    WilsonA Active Member

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    #28
    +REP left for both of you

    I just have 2 more questions
    - can you help me check this my robot txt to see whether it is
    ok, I want it to point to my sitemap ----> Robots

    - I have submitted my site to yahoo thru the yahoo site explorer
    do I still need to submit my sitemap seperately, if yes how do
    I do that?

    thanks again
     
    WilsonA, Dec 29, 2007 IP
  9. astup1didiot

    astup1didiot Notable Member

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    #29


    Change sitemap: http://forexkillerreview.info/sitemap.xml
    to sitemap: http://www.forexkillerreview.info/sitemap.xml

    Yes, you must submit your sitemap to Google & Yahoo! seperately.
     
    astup1didiot, Dec 30, 2007 IP
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    astup1didiot Notable Member

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    I'll have to check this one out :)
     
    astup1didiot, Jan 1, 2008 IP
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    #32
    thank u too for reminding me about yahoo site explorer as I'm so focused these days on only Google!
     
    jerrysheehan, Jan 4, 2008 IP
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    #34
    I have a webpage http://www.eriecomputerman.com and my xml sitemap is http://www.eriecomputerman.com/sitemap.xml. The issue I am having is I get an error stating

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

    Is this normal?
     
    shawnden, Jan 19, 2008 IP
  15. astup1didiot

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    That is a browser error I'm assuming, remember not a browsers download the styles reported in your sitemap. As long as Google Webmasters Central isn't reporting any errors your fine.
     
    astup1didiot, Jan 20, 2008 IP
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    #37
    Great

    Also add to this that there can not be blank lines in it:

    User-agent: *
    Disallow:
    sitemap: Your URL to Your SiteMap​

    If there is a blank line between "disallow:" and "sitemap", it will create a error.
     
    catanich, Jan 25, 2008 IP
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    #38
    I have two things on the server.
    index.htm and index_files. do i place the sitemap file in the index_files dir or next to the above mentioned? i don't understand what u mean by top directory.:eek:
     
    goppss, Jan 25, 2008 IP
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    #39
    GSiteCrawler is definitely the best.

    It's free for the time-being.
     
    usasportstraining, Jan 26, 2008 IP
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    The top level directory means you would put it where the following index.html resides in the below url...

    http://www.yoursite.com/index.html
     
    astup1didiot, Jan 26, 2008 IP