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Sitemap question.

by DogScout
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if you already have an extensive html site and want to keep it, but want to add a blog just to post articles and info to.
WP has sitemap plug-ins that ignore headers, footers etc, but will also ignore the html site.
is it OK to just link two site maps to each other? Or add each blog post to the html sitemap manually each post?
(assuming you want them seen as a single site)
or is it better to add another html page for each article?
#question #sitemap
  • Profile picture of the author DogScout
    I just lost the game. Again!
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  • Profile picture of the author DogScout
    No one has run in to this before?:confused:
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  • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
    I don't see any problem in linking them together, but make sure they have different names if they're kept in the same directory so one doesn't erase the other. Do you have an XML Sitemap too? I've never really thought about this before, to tell you the truth.
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  • Profile picture of the author Hasan Barbary
    Originally Posted by DogScout View Post

    if you already have an extensive html site and want to keep it, but want to add a blog just to post articles and info to.
    WP has sitemap plug-ins that ignore headers, footers etc, but will also ignore the html site.
    is it OK to just link two site maps to each other? Or add each blog post to the html sitemap manually each post?
    (assuming you want them seen as a single site)
    or is it better to add another html page for each article?
    Because you used the word "extensive", I'm guessing that your pre-existing html site is much bigger than your blog. For that reason, I would NOT create the sitemap from within WP. You can use an online tool like...

    Create your Google Sitemap Online - XML Sitemaps Generator

    Put it top-level, on your root domain, then upload it manually via Google's Webmaster Tools. That way all your URLs get seen.
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  • Profile picture of the author DogScout
    true, but that tool lists all the footers and headers as different pages. The blog would actually be in it's own directory and WP has so many non-real page php files in it, a normal tool would just assume they were separate pages.
    I'm beginning to think there is no advantage to even using the WP blog, even for 200-500 articles. You'd have to redo the sitemap by hand anyway after each post. Probably just easier to add them by hand as HTML files.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
    Dogscout, do you have the blog set up yet? If not, install it as a subdomain so your URL is like:

    HTML Code:
    http://blog.yourDomain.com
    A subdomain should have it's own sitemap and it's own robots.txt file anyway, so that would solve your dilemma I should think.
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