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
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.
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.
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.)
+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
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.
There is another site http://www.freesitemapgenerator.com which generates the code for your sitemap.xml. It is good
I really like this one for creating the sitemap. The fact that it's free is great! http://www.auditmypc.com/free-sitemap-generator.asp - Online Sitemap Generator (no limits)
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?
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.
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.
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.
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