Google SiteMaps

Has anybody gone down this route yet?

https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login

I'm doing so now but it is a little tricky with getting shelll access on the webserver

 

I'm thinking of giving it a shot. Sounds like it could be a good thing to do.

 

try a search on this, a few good threads already started. BTW: you dont need shell access.

If you dont want to go the code route you can always use crawlers like: http://www.sitemapspal.com/

 

Or you can quite simply build it dynamically from your database or statically from your access logs.

I'll be implementing a dynamic solution somewhere during the next few weeks. No rush.

 

Am I missing something?

It's the google xml connection that I want

So why would I be able to do it without the route google is telling me.....

 

Does anyone know what the xml output file should look like for creating the xml w/o the python install?

 

This is mine, copied and pasted from browser so has some -'s in it.

        This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
      
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	<urlset>
-
	<url>
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	<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=35
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-03-30</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>1.0</priority>
</url>
-
	<url>
-
	<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=31
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-06-02</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.8</priority>
</url>
-
	<url>
-
	<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=33
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-06-02</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.6</priority>
</url>
-
	<url>
-
	<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=34
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-03-29</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.6</priority>
</url>
-
	<url>
-
	<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=28
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-06-02</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.4</priority>
</url>
-
	<url>
-
	<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=37
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-04-24</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.3</priority>
</url>
-
	<url>
-
	<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=42
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-06-02</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.3</priority>
</url>
-
	<url>
-
	<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=45
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-06-06</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.3</priority>
</url>
-
	<url>
-
	<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=29
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-06-02</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.3</priority>
</url>
-
	<url>
-
	<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=32
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-06-02</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.2</priority>
</url>
-
	<url>
-
	<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=38
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-03-29</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.2</priority>
</url>
-
	<url>
-
	<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=44
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-06-02</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.1</priority>
</url>
-
	<url>
-
	<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=30
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-03-29</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.1</priority>
</url>
-
	<url>
-
	<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=40
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-06-02</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.1</priority>
</url>
-
	<url>
-
	<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=41
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-06-02</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.1</priority>
</url>
-
	<url>
-
	<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=43
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-06-02</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.1</priority>
</url>
-
	<url>
-
	<loc>
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=36
</loc>
<lastmod>2005-03-30</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.1</priority>
</url>
</urlset>

Code (markup):

 

does anyone know which other major search engines also accept the Google sitemap as URL-submission mode ??

 

none, asfaik, I think they are trying to start a new standard for all search engines

 

I created several and they all have been accepted. I hope that this will generate positive results and get a deeper crawl through some of the database generated content.

 

me too i started 3 sitemaps

1. for static files - the easiest one to maintain
2. for dynamic files created from access_log offline - it used too much resources online the first time i ran it - hence the offline creation
3. for the newest chapters - this sitemap is maintained manually

- all accepted - all downloaded usually within an hours - and it seems that Google is re-downloading the sitemaps even without re-submission after 12 hours

 

Yea, I noticed that as well. I think it's pretty cool.

 

everyone please keep us updated on the progress of this new project. i haven't submitted any sitemaps yet, and would like to hear some user experiences.

 

Well, Google can't find mine, some DNS resolving issue at their ISP. Everything fine from my end. Have to sit and wait a while...

 

It certainly can't hurt.

 

I've used http://www.sitemapxml.com/ for one of my sites. It's been an awesome experience so far. Had a bunch of dynamic PHP pages that weren't in the index that are now! More traffic, broader keyword appeal.

Hank