I've been rewriting my dynamic paths in a Content Management System and I use the URL http://www.mysite.com/news/latest-news/ to get to my news article index page. To help Google index my news article index page they have suggested I submit a news sitemap and place it in the same directory where the news articles are. Seeing that this directory doesn't physically exist (because all the directories are simply being rewritten) the answer would be to create the directory/folder structure on my server as /news/latest-news/ and place my news sitemap there. Problem - once this structure is created, going to http://www.mysite.com/news/latest-news/ finds an empty folder with no index page and the news article index page is unavailable. Does anybody have any ideas how I could sort out this issue and still keep the path http://www.mysite.com/news/latest-news/ Many kind thanks in advance
Exactly. Now does anybody have any idea how I go about fixing this so that I get the path to the folder working AND the news sitemap in that same folder without any errors? Is there a way or do I have to have a rethink of the structure? I can dump the news sitemap in the root of the site but Google specifically states "upload it to the highest-level directory that contains your news articles".