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Google Sitemaps FAQ

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

  1. Sthman

    Sthman Guest

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    #121
    PaddyL,

    Not absolutely necessary - just as site maps themselves are not absolutely necessary. As long as all your pages can be reached through normal links, Google will (eventually) find them...

    But a site map "helps" Google find pages and also gives Google hints regarding the importance and update-frequency of your pages, so allowing Google to index them more completely and more timely.

    K
     
    Sthman, Oct 22, 2008 IP
  2. PaddyL

    PaddyL Active Member

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    #122
    Thanks for the reply.

    I had been wondering, as Google has tended to ignore my sitemap altogether.
     
    PaddyL, Oct 22, 2008 IP
  3. Sthman

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    #123
    PaddyL,

    You have Ggl W'master tools? and did you check if all is OK with ur sitemap? :cool:

    -S-
     
    Sthman, Oct 25, 2008 IP
  4. PaddyL

    PaddyL Active Member

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    #124
    Yes, I did all that. Google kept indexing my old, gone, pages, and not my new ones, even though it accepted and read my sitemap. It still has the old pages indexed, a few weeks after the changes, although it finally indexed the new pages.

    So I feel that the sitemap is a bit pointless.
     
    PaddyL, Oct 26, 2008 IP
  5. Sthman

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    #125
    seen same here - site maps r no guarantee that Ggl will index ... but they help ;)

    -S-
     
    Sthman, Oct 26, 2008 IP
  6. palme

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    #126
    hi
    that was very useful for me, special something that's about google sitemap, robots and etc, thanks
     
    palme, Nov 13, 2008 IP
  7. leon2007

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    #127
    I re-submitted my website today as I moved my blog from blogspot to wordpress but I am not too sure if I did it right. It asked me for feed address and I gave my site name followed by.rss is it ok or it has to be.xml?
     
    leon2007, Nov 18, 2008 IP
  8. famfam

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    #128
    very good information is provided here. i wnt to know dear friends that how may i see the cashed list of 4000 pages of 1 site in google and msn as yahho gives the oppurtunity to have a tsv file. plz tell me
     
    famfam, Nov 19, 2008 IP
  9. pratik2605

    pratik2605 Greenhorn

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    #129
    can i submit more than 1 site map
     
    pratik2605, Dec 4, 2008 IP
  10. Dan Schulz

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    #130
    I'm sure you could pratik, but I don't see why you'd want to submit more than one for the same domain. And what do you mean by a list for DMOZ?
     
    Dan Schulz, Dec 5, 2008 IP
  11. Sthman

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    #131
    I dont think there is any advantage to put more than 1 sitemap on ur site. But re-submitting sitemap after update is important!
     
    Sthman, Dec 7, 2008 IP
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    #132
    Hi guys. Thanks for useful information about Google sitemap. It's very interesting for me as I tried to make my own sitemap:)
    But for saving time now I'm using Sitemap Writer Pro for my websites. I think this is good soft for making XML Sitemap. This webtool generates the sitemap for my website in just seconds. Mayor search engines (Google, Yahoo, Ask, MSN, Moreover) are able to index and read my sitemaps without any problems.
    Is there any other softs that you can recommend me? ;)
     
    Marko8, Dec 9, 2008 IP
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    #133
    Can you please let me know exactly why Google report the html sitemap as
    Unsupported file format
    Your Sitemap does not appear to be in a supported format. Please ensure it meets our Sitemap guidelines and resubmit.

    What exactly could be the problem as the sitemap one present sounds good
    Edit/Delete Message

    There is only Sitemap guidelines for xml...how about Html????
     
    Renunciator, Dec 9, 2008 IP
  14. websitetools

    websitetools Well-Known Member

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    #134

    HTML sitemaps are for general crawling by search engines / humans... However, Google Webmaster Portals only accepts certain types of sitemap files, e.g. xml sitemaps protocol files. You can check my article that shows and explains thee differences between types of sitemap files.
     
    websitetools, Dec 10, 2008 IP
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    #135
    Very helpful entry. I also found that sitemaps.org has additional information as well. If anyone else already posted this, my apologies. Threads this long are hard to go through.
     
    shinyk, Dec 12, 2008 IP
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    davrrash Banned

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    #136
    If i have more than 5000 pages, how can a index and submit sitemap
     
    davrrash, Dec 15, 2008 IP
  17. BlackMamba88

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    #137
    This thread is best for the information on sitemaps and all the credits go to DP members.

    But I still have some questions to be answered:

    I am new in webmaster thingy and just launched my brand new site. I don't have the robots.txt file in my website's root directory(haven't placed it yet), activated the wordpress google sitemap plugin but haven't used it to create a sitemap to upload on google webmaster tool. Yet I am using the webmaster tool and google analytics(confirmed ownership of site by uploading a file).

    Even though I don't hv the robots.txt file and no sitemap uploaded to webmaster tool my site is still crawled by google, yahoo, msn and it appears in all the search engines.

    So I am confused now, if everything is going fine why do I need to place the robots.txt file and upload sitemap? What changes will it make?

    And most important : Why is everything working fine?

    Like I said I am new in all these so it is possible that I am making some mistakes in understanding how search engines work. That's why I am looking for help from you guys.

    My site : symbiansmartphone(dot)com
     
    BlackMamba88, Jan 17, 2009 IP
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    #139
    Good Info ....pls give other free sitemap generators sites

    http://www.creativedevilz.com
     
    surya247, Feb 6, 2009 IP
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    #140
    hi
    my site muchads.com last three months no crawl google and no index pages why. please solve my problems.
     
    vk_2006, Feb 11, 2009 IP