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Question About Code Required In HTML File For Sitemap

Discussion in 'Google Sitemaps' started by bad_bob00, Apr 22, 2008.

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    Hi,

    I noticed that in my HTML code in the <head> tag I have the following line:

    <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="ROR" href="ror.xml" />


    I recently deleted my sitemap and recreated one, which is now just sitemap.xml

    How do I change the above line to point to my new sitemap?

    Also do I need the above line of code on every page of my website? Or just the index.html page?


    Thanks for any help offered
     
    bad_bob00, Apr 22, 2008 IP
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    websitetools Well-Known Member

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    ROR is basicly RSS feed (ROR has some extensions, but they are not read by search engines). If you are trying to make a Google sitemap / XML sitemaps protocol, then yes, you can safely remove the line. The easiest way to submit your new sitemap file is to add a reference to your sitemap.xml in robots.txt.
     
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    Okay thanks ThomasSchulz.

    I had already created a sitemap.xml file, and I submitted it through Google Webmaster Tools. Is this enough, or do I need to do anything else? And then I can simply remove the line of code from my html files?


    Thanks again
     
    bad_bob00, Apr 23, 2008 IP
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    Yep :)

    However, I still recommend also having a reference to it in robots.txt for other search engines than Google.


    Yes :)
     
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    Hi thanks for the help again.

    Sorry to be thick, but what should my robots.txt file contain? At the moment it just has the following:


    Is that enough?


    Thanks again :)
     
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    Like this tutorial shows, you should add the line Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml (Just use the path to your own XML sitemap file!)
     
    websitetools, Apr 24, 2008 IP