Wordpress blog to big to gen sitemap?

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by ShiftChip, Feb 19, 2007.

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    My site has 350k articles and today I was trying out the sitemap gen plugin. When I run it no sitemap is created. Is my site to big? Is there any alternatives to create the a sitemap for a wordpress site?
     
    ShiftChip, Feb 19, 2007 IP
  2. ThreeGuineaWatch

    ThreeGuineaWatch Well-Known Member

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    Hi,

    Are you sure it is not that the generator is just taking a little while to grind through 350K posts? That's a lot of posts and would take a little while.

    Google has a Python tool that will do it - it's available for download in the Google webmaster tools (or it was last time I needed it.)

    Also, there are numerous other free sitemap tools - search Google for "free sitemap generator". Be careful if it is not one that runs locally on the server though as indexing 350K posts over the 'net will take a while.

    I believe it is best practice to keep your sitemap below 10MB so with 350K posts you'd need to section your sitemap.

    Cheers,
     
    ThreeGuineaWatch, Feb 21, 2007 IP