need help im about to make a sitemap and pass it to google... what is best and why?... best for google and my site?...
ok ok...thanks i mean i already have a tool and about to save... what file type(.xml or .html or ect.) is the best for google to pass and for my site?... thanks
Whats the difference .. is there a creator to do this or what is the best way to create one for google alone? I already have sitemap.html for my visitors but need to know the best and easiest way to setup .xml
search for "audit my pc sitemap generator" in google...cant post live links, ... very helpful tool, just what you need...
I use to use this site when creating a sitemap. www.xml-sitemaps.com google doesnt have a problem with it and its free just noticed they changed the layout and have a 500page max limit now.
If you have the time and resources its best to do both. I usually make the sitemap.html my 404 error page so users can find information on my site that they are looking for. the xml sitemap is for the search engines
can site map generators crawl into subdomains?... audit my pc sitemap generator cant crawl my subdomains...
If you have links to your subdomains from your main page and your .htaccess is configured properly then you shouldnt have a problem. You could also create a separate sitemap file for your subdomains. My favorite sitemap creator is PHPSitemapNG found at http://enarion.net/google/ It's free software that runs on your own server. It will create sitemaps in rss, xml, html, and txt and then ping the big 3 search engines. What I do is create all four sitemaps and leave them in the root directory of my website. Then for a sitemap for my visitors (i dont use the html) I create a user friendly sitemap from the rss feed.
thanks a lot man... unfortunately i dont know how to configure my .htaccess file... do you any resource page that can help?... thanks so much again...
When a sitemap creator crawls your website to get the urls then sometimes they will have trouble if your linking to folders such as example.com/folder1/ rather than example.com/folder1/index.html In this situation you would either want to change all your links to point to the index file (which I dont like to do) or you can create rewrite rules in your htaccess file that will redirect index.html to / (thats what I use) Another thing that can cause duplicate content issues with search engines is they will see http://example.com and http://www.example.com as different pages. You can also fix this in the .htaccess file to redirect your entire website to either www or non www I prefer non www but it doesnt make a difference which one you choose. Do a google search for htaccess mod rewrite to learn about configuring your htaccess file
the xml i think works great for google of you update your site frequenlty... what are your experiences tell us that html works fine for you...