Site Map

[Moneyland]

Hello,

This may sound a stupid question, but is the sitemap an actual page on your website? My website designer has quoted for a 5 page website and wondering if one of these will taken the sitemap??


many thanks

[Frosy]

Hi,

No questions are stupid, we all have to learn.

Your designer should NOT include the sitemap as one of the 5 pages. If he/she does then he's/she's a tight a***

The sitemap is usually an xml page listing all the pages.

There are tools which build sitemaps of your site. Ask you designer nicely to build it for you, if he/she refuses or charges you then consider sacking them and installing Wordpress and getting the Google XML plugin.

Best regards
David

P.S
I'm not being mean to your designer, it's just a figure of speech, he/she is probably excellent at their job.

[AverageGuy]

yes, sitemap can be a seperated page. but it depends.


david

[lazfin]

I have a related question. Do you need a separate sitemap if your blog is a WP subdirectory? For example, one sitemap for my Dreamweaver-created domain.com/ and another for my WP-created subdirectory domain.com/blog/.

[Croque]

There are two different sitemaps:

One is for the SE bots to help them index your site and the other is for people to navigate your site with ease.

[Kezz]

I would say that you should ask the designer for the specifics of what each page can be, and let them explain in more detail what the quote covers.

I don't see why someone is a tight a$$ for asking to be paid for time spent working for someone??? As long as the quotation is for a reasonable amount, and the person doesn't over charge to create a sitemap page, of course they should be paid to do it.

Even if a person doesn't need to spend a lot of time doing something, it's still not fair to ask them to do it for free. You wouldn't walk into a department store and say hey, these socks are really cheap, so I can have them free right?

If the designer hasn't included specifics of what the 5 page site can include, I would just ask them to let you know a little more detail. It's a question only they can really answer for you.

[Joshua.E1]

Well you can DIY yourself on submitting the XML sitemap, click Submit XML Sitemap to Major Search Engines here.

[CliveG]

Originally Posted by Frosy

Ask you designer nicely to build it for you, if he/she refuses or charges you then consider sacking them and installing Wordpress and getting the Google XML plugin.

I don't understand this at all. Why should the designer do this free if it was not part of the original quote? Granted, these days a quote for a website should really include an XML (or similar) search engine readable sitemap, but if it did not and you then add it to the specification you should pay for it.

[Abledragon]

There are a number of online sitemap generators for static sites - the one I use for my static sites is here:

Create your Google Sitemap Online - XML Sitemaps Generator

It's free to generate a sitemap as long as you're mapping less than 500 pages, and you need to generate a new sitemap each time you add or remove a page.

For WordPress there are a couple of sitemap generator plugins. The one I use (Google XML Sitemap Generator) automatically updates your sitemap and pings the search engines each time you update your blog - so this is set and forget.

If your blog is in a sub directory and you want your WordPress sitemap to include other directories, and the main pages in your site, then you can place it in your root directory.

In this case you need to define its location in the settings. Then you only need one site map for your entire domain.

Cheers,

Martin.

[lazfin]

Originally Posted by Abledragon

If your blog is in a sub directory and you want your WordPress sitemap to include other directories, and the main pages in your site, then you can place it in your root directory.

In this case you need to define its location in the settings. Then you only need one site map for your entire domain.

Exactly what I needed. Thanks, Martin!

[Abledragon]

You're very welcome..!

cheers