Hey guys, My site has over 300K pages and I'm trying to create a sitemap for it. Can I create only one XML file? Is that going to be too big for google? Is there any limit for xml file? If yes, what would you recommend? Thanks in advance.
Some online sitemap creators can create all type of sitemaps for you.( XML HTML urllist) BTW Google sitemaps have a limit but you can split the file
Hi search "free online sitemap creator xml" you will definately found a sitemap creator. it will good to use them instead of creating your own because in manual creation there are some chance incarporate any bug or missspell. Right now i am unable to suggest you any exact online service for it. Good luck!!
You should have the sitemap generator split everything to only have 20k URLS max in each sitemap. Then have one master sitemap that links to the other child sitemaps with 20k urls each. You should only submit the master sitemap to google etc..
You can provide multiple Sitemap files, but each Sitemap file that you provide must have no more than 50,000 URLs and must be no larger than 10MB (10,485,760 bytes). If you would like, you may compress your Sitemap files using gzip to reduce your bandwidth requirement; however the sitemap file once uncompressed must be no larger than 10MB. If you want to list more than 50,000 URLs, you must create multiple Sitemap files. If you do provide multiple Sitemaps, you should then list each Sitemap file in a Sitemap index file. Sitemap index files may not list more than 1,000 Sitemaps and must be no larger than 10MB (10,485,760 bytes) and can be compressed. You can have more than one Sitemap index file. The XML format of a Sitemap index file is very similar to the XML format of a Sitemap file. The Sitemap index file must: * Begin with an opening <sitemapindex> tag and end with a closing </sitemapindex> tag. * Include a <sitemap> entry for each Sitemap as a parent XML tag. * Include a <loc> child entry for each <sitemap> parent tag. The optional <lastmod> tag is also available for Sitemap index files. Note: A Sitemap index file can only specify Sitemaps that are found on the same site as the Sitemap index file. For example, http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap_index.xml can include Sitemaps on http://www.yoursite.com but not on http://www.example.com or http://yourhost.yoursite.com. As with Sitemaps, your Sitemap index file must be UTF-8 encoded. Sample XML Sitemap Index The following example shows a Sitemap index that lists two Sitemaps: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"> <sitemap> <loc>http://www.example.com/sitemap1.xml.gz</loc> <lastmod>2004-10-01T18:23:17+00:00</lastmod> </sitemap> <sitemap> <loc>http://www.example.com/sitemap2.xml.gz</loc> <lastmod>2005-01-01</lastmod> </sitemap> </sitemapindex> Note: Sitemap URLs, like all values in your XML files, must be entity escaped.
you can make a sitemap.tar.gz sitemap, compressed, usually for sitemaps over 10mb. ___________________ Free Article Directory