Huge amount of product links for webshop

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    Hi,

    I need to make a sitemap for a webshop with thousands of products. I want Google to know the links to each product page. What should I rather do?

    1) Enumerate all product page links in the xml, and feed the latest version of this huge xml to Google from time to time

    2) Create a special page for Google, which contains every link to each product page, and put a single link to this page in the xml. Google learns the product page links by loading this page and scanning it for links from time to time.

    Thanks.
     
    leafface, Mar 20, 2011 IP
  2. pavanseo

    pavanseo Active Member

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    If you have thousands of pages then you must create multiple sitemaps because according to google guidelines a sitemap can contain only 500 urls. so create multiple sitemaps and call them into a single sitemap.
     
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    leafface Peon

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    Ok, thanks!

    That makes it obvious I should attach the products in xml's.
     
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    websitetools Well-Known Member

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    Each sitemap file can contain 50000 URLs, not 500 as stated elsewherel. Check this article about sitemap splitting
     
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    That's helpful, thanks!
     
    leafface, Mar 21, 2011 IP