Google Sitemaps FAQ

I am curious about this part of the sitemaps. I would love hear thoughts on what you guys/gals do?

If your sitemap is generating the following is this ok? w/
?p=59
?paged=2
redirect_to
?cat=1

<url>
<loc>http://www.exampledomain.com/?p=59</loc>
<priority>0.80</priority>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.exampledomain.com/?paged=2</loc>
<priority>0.80</priority>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.exampledomain.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http://www.exampledomain.com/?page_id=2</loc>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.exampledomain.com/?cat=1</loc>
<priority>0.51</priority>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
</url>

**** OR ****

Should I do the following. Create www.exampledomain.com/sports or www.exampledomain.com/politics and redirect from the ?p etc

ie.


<url>
<loc>http://www.exampledomain.com/sports</loc>
<priority>0.80</priority>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.exampledomain.com/politics</loc>
<priority>0.80</priority>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.exampledomain.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http://www.exampledomain.com/?page_id=2</loc>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.exampledomain.com/health</loc>
<priority>0.51</priority>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
</url>


Thanks in advance for your time

 

Both solutions should be ok. If you create sitemap with valid URLs it will work for you.

But when you will not think only about sitemap I recommend the second solution. Use .htaccess to rewrite the URLs. This way you can put your keywords to the URL and this will have positive impact on your ranking in search engines. Keyword in the URL is one of many factors which are used by google to rank the websites.

 

ya u can submit in the root of yor domain

 

thanks bro but when i want to submit my sitemap what link should i provide to google or where should i place that xml file & how to upload it to webmaster

 

Here are clearly described the steps to submit your sitemap:

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34575&hl=en

In short: You will log in your webmaster tools account, click the "add" link in the "sitemaps" column and add the file name with the sitemap.

 

We use xml-sitemaps.com its good but it has limit maximum 500 pages.
Suggest any other.

We just tried vigos.com/products/gsitemap/ but its not working

Application Error

gsitemap.exe The application failed to initialize proper (0xc0000135).

other one is so complexed...

if any one know simple one do let us know.

 

How many pages has your website? I have seen many of sitemap generators but the free had always some limit.

 

Awesome resource!! but I am facing problem to build search engine site map for DNN websites. I have created but tricky to upload; Any idea??

 

Sitemaps are really helpful, our site has been indexed 400% faster by google because of the xml-sitemaps.

But our site also has noindex, follow html sitemaps.

I think they help small search engines to deeply crawl our website faster.

 

one can generate site map of there website from www.xml-sitemaps.com
Just type URL of your website and you can download your sitemap.

 

What if I generate multiple sitemaps for my website...

 

Very good stuff here ssandecki, proper sitemaps can really make some difference,

Thanks.

 

If i have a vbulletin forum that i want people to register to view the content, is their a way to include the page in my sitemap? as of right now it's not indexing the pages unless i put it on free view for guests

 

I'm using vbeo sitemap generator btw, is their anything better?

 

but why sitemaps helps me?

 

I am confused about the sitemaps of blogger and Wordpress.How they are created and where they get submitted.

 

Does it really matter if the site map is in a directory on it's own as long as you tell Google where it is?

 

If you are using free blogger domain then try out this

http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/rss.xml

replace yourblogname with actual blog name

 

Good Thread. Thanks.

I need information about robots.txt. where robots put allow and where not allow. for ex. I have a site. but I am using robots.txt for allow all. so, which thing is allow and which thing is not allow I dont any idea. Please give me suggestions.

 

Woot!

Thanks.

I needed an unlimited Sitemap generator.