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What purpose does the XML Site Map feature have?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:13 am
by AbleMods
Is it for spiders or search engines to aid their ability to crawl your complete site?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:35 am
by jmestep
I don't know about other spiders, but from the format of the one that is generated, it will provide a Google sitemap feed. It's similar to the one I use for Google.
http://www.anythingxtreme.com/axgoogle.xml
Go to Google webmaster tools and register the sitemap with them. They will crawl it periodically (you can even push it to them when you update it. It is a fast way to get all your URLs into Google without having to pay anything!
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:39 am
by AbleMods
As always Judy, your wisdom commands attention.
Thank you - I'll check it out on google and get it uploaded.
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:55 am
by sohaib
XML Sitemap implements standardized sitemap protocol that is supported by Google, Yahoo and MSN
http://www.sitemaps.org
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:58 am
by DonAshby
Does this automatically create a complete index of our site for google - all we have to do is upload it? Or do we have to manually tweak or adjust it? Will it work for both YAHOO and GOOGLE?
Thanks, Don
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:49 am
by sohaib
Need to document this also...
SiteMap is not uploaded anywhere. Instead it is accessed by Google, Yahoo, or MSN from your website.
Once you generate the site map it will be accessible at
http://www.yourstore.com/sitemap.xml
Once you have created the sitemap let search engines know about it by submitting directly to them, pinging them, or adding the Sitemap location to your robots.txt file. (
http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php#informing)
You can get answers to almost all of your questions regarding sitemaps from
http://www.sitemaps.org/faq.php
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 10:07 am
by AbleMods
I found how to set it up in the Google webmaster tools. It's pretty easy - that's a nice addition to AC7.