.xml sitemap
I've recently added a sitemap to my site using the .xml
extension as was suggested by the
suppliers. Two questions;
a) Is it necessary to use this format or would a simple .htm
file do? And if the answer to this is yes, you must use .xml
b) How can I format the text for if/when viewers may visit
(the Code/Split/Design buttons and the Propert Inspector are greyed
out.)
Hi,
No you don't have to make a sitemap for every page but for every site.
You just have to insert this url
http://web.mac.com/stahlchristian/
in this webpage
http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
And it will create a sitemap of your website which you can download as a .xml file and then put on your server.
But there is one inconvenient: google and the tool for making a sitemap are not able to look through your navigation bar because it's java-rendering-script so they would just look at your home.html file and then stop. What you could/should do is place a second nav bar on the bottom of your page (text field with simple text links to the pages in the nav bar => Home, Klangbeispiele, Biographien, Kontakt) like I did here http://alyeska.altervista.org/de/Willkommen.html . Google and the sitemap editor will be able to follow this links and get the whole homepage. It will not take a long time to do this, you just have to do it once then copy&paste to the four pages included in the navbar. Then create the sitemap as I said before. Once you have created and downloaded the xml file you could open it with safari and see if alle the urls in your website are in the map if yes everything worked if not then something went wrong. Upload it, link it in the Google Webmaster Tools and gogle will ask to verify that it's your website/url.
When you know how to make a sitemap and you update your site adding new pages it will not take you a lot of time anymore.
I think the sitemap is useful, I really do. Nevertheless it will take some time for your pages to appear in google.
Regards,
Cédric
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somehow into "best sitemap generator." Following
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a Sitemap and, based on the recommendations, I tried
two of them. First I tried
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downloaded a html page on my desktop in a matter of
seconds. I dragged that onto Fetch and "Put" it to
the server (ftp-dom.earthlink.net - with whom I have
my primary email service. Getting a new website up on
Earthlink was, happily, very easy.)
What I got back from SitemapDoc SEEMED incomplete -
just the Home page was shown. I fiddled with ""edit
existing map" and nothing happened that I could see.
(I'm open to the idea that it's me, not the
software.) I dragged the icon from the Fetch webdocs
window in to the trash.
Then I tried another website generator that had been
recommended by Rebecca as the super dooper one -
xml-sitemaps.com. I did that because of her high
praise and, also, because of a comment James Tseng
has made in a 11/02.06 response to Tormance saying
"...the sitemap.xml file. (Emphasis on the ".xml"
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Creating a sitemap late in the game
I've created an entire site using a single template and about
7 pages. I've been told that the site map is how search engines
find your site info. What is the best way to create one for an
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- up to 500
pages.
http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
--Nancy O.
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in message
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> I've created an entire site using a single template and
about 7 pages.
I've
> been told that the site map is how search engines find
your site info.
What is
> the best way to create one for an existing site? Is
there a better way
to
> make sure search engines find the site? I have
registered the site with
three
> of the major search engines but it still doesn't show
up.
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Tried ragesw and tried xml-sitemap.com
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Thanks!Roddy,
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