Google Sitemaps FAQ

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.

 

it keeps giving me this with all my sites



same lines, does anyone know why?

 

What is the URL to your sitemap?

 

EDIT

thanks Longhaul, that was the problem

 

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'll have to check this one out

 

thank u too for reminding me about yahoo site explorer as I'm so focused these days on only Google!

 

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.

 

Did you correct this problem?

 

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.

 

GSiteCrawler is definitely the best.

It's free for the time-being.

 

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