How to create a sitemap with old CMS system?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by carrlos, May 3, 2007.

  1. #1
    Just purchased a new website.
    The site uses a content management system.
    URL's look like this:
    www.MYDOMAIN.com/category.php?n=2&page=2&sort=m_in+desc&PHPSESSID=6b34be8dd57c70b750bea9a902

    I see that most URL's/pages are well indexed in Google.
    Should I put a site map on it, and which URL's should I put in sitemap:

    This:
    www.MYDOMAIN.com/category.php?n=2&page=2&sort=m_in+desc

    Or This:
    www.MYDOMAIN.com/category.php?n=2&page=2&sort=m_in+desc&PHPSESSID=6b34be8dd57c70b750bea9a902
    (From Google Search Results)

    Are those considered same URL's or Different?
    Will it be considered duplicate content?

    Thanks!
     
    carrlos, May 3, 2007 IP
  2. Voasi

    Voasi Active Member

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    You should re-write the URLs completely. They're not well optimized for one. For 2, if you have 2 different types of pages out there on your site, you need to make it so that one isn't getting indexed or is 301'ing to the other. Having 2 pages that are identical will cause duplicant page issues.
     
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  3. FindMyPages

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    If your hosting server support PHP (Looks like you do), try this free PHP script which will generate site map in xml, html, text format. It's pretty neat.

    http://enarion.net/google/

    Very cool script.
     
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    The enarion script is definitely great for creating Google sitemaps. I'm not sure if Carrlos was looking for a Google sitemap or a regular / HTML sitemap. We took some ideas from enarion's script (but no code...) to create a dynamic HTML and Google sitemap (part of the nukeSEO addon) for the PHP-Nuke CMS.
     
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    igme Banned

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