Google Sitemap? Do this for ALL Sites?

by BJ Min

Posted: 18 years ago 21 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Hi,

I just hired an outsourcing company and they
told me to do Google Sitemap for my main site?

Should I do this for ALL my sites?

Thanks
BJ

#google #sitemap #sites

ezimedia 18 years ago

HI

Yes.. a sitemap on any website is important if you have a lot of pages on the site it will help the search engines spider/index your sites content faster.

You can also submit your sitemaps to Google, Yahoo etc.

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Sean Donahoe 18 years ago

There are lots of simple ways to get a sitemap going quickly. One of the easiest is to use a service like XML-Sitemaps.com which is free.

Some people have the misconception that having a sitemap is good for SEO which is not really the case, it just helps get indexed better. The other thing to note is that the formatting for these sitemaps is the de facto standard for sitemaps and will start to be used by many of the larger engines as well as upcoming competitors.
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sparrow 18 years ago

absolutely

I wrote a WSO about xml files and their usage and a Google sitemap is an xml file

Google created Google sitemaps in xml for a reason and should not be taken lightly

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rapidscc 18 years ago

Hi Ed.

could you add more info re: sitemaps. I just got curious why it should be made?

thanks,

Omar/Rapidscc
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BJ Min 18 years ago

i had a difficult time uploading it...do you change it to a HTML file and then upload it?

i tried uploading it with frontpage but it says it could NOT verify it
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Michael Motley 18 years ago

this can be done easily with googletools.

yes, it should be done
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- r72gs 18 years ago
  
  I have a large article directory and I'm having a hard time find a way to generate a site map. Anyone know of a program that can handle it? The site is archivedarticles.com
  
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JonathanBoettcher 18 years ago

There seems to be this popular idea floating around on the net that you need to resubmit your sitemaps each time you make a change to your site. (They say it like just for telling you this secret they should charge you $450)

Can any add any validity to this?

To me, it seems stupid and redundant to always resubmit. I login to Google Webmaster tools, and it tells me it last downloaded my sitemap three days ago. So, fine. I'm sure in a few more days it will download my new sitemap, and make the corrections to their database.

I know I need to be updating and maintaining my sitemap - but the constant resubmission?

What are your thoughts?
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- Sean Donahoe 18 years ago
  
  You do not need to constantly resubmit. Both Google and Yahoo come and re-check automatically daily.
  
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JonathanBoettcher 18 years ago

That makes sense to me... Nice to know it does to others too.

It just really bugs me that so called "experts" are telling people to waste their precious time doing this redundant monkey work.
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Sean Donahoe 18 years ago

I hear you, that drives me nuts too. Glad to help!
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Emailrevealer 18 years ago

I've been told I don't have a site map but that I need one. I just went to that site posted above and created one but how do I get that on my site? Where do I put it?
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- jame58rown 18 years ago
  
  http://www.yourdomain.com/mysitemap.xml
  
  that should do it
  
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- Barbara Eyre 18 years ago
  
  Once you have created your xml sitemap .... save it to your computer, typically as: sitemap.xml
  
  Then, go to your google webmaster tools, to the sitemap section ... and typing the filename of the sitemap, in this case: sitemap.xml ... and click submit.
  
  This is telling the search engine to specifically search for this new file on your website.
  
  And whenever you do update your sitemap, just overwrite the information. I.e., generate a new sitemap and save it as the same filename and re-submit it.
  
  While you don't need to re-submit it after each change you make to your website, you should create a new sitemap frequently to reflect changes to your website - lets the search engine know of new pages, lets them know pages no longer exist since they are no longer listed in the sitemap, etc.
  
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JonathanBoettcher 18 years ago

You'll need to upload it via ftp to somewhere on your site. Preferably the root directory.

ie: http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml

Make sure you created the xml version, not an html or something else.

Once it is up on your site and you can see it by typing in its URL, then go to Google Webmaster Central create an account, and upload the sitemap's URL to them.

You can also do this for Yahoo and MSN.
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- Emailrevealer 18 years ago
  
  Thank you James and Jonathon, Barbara. Sounds so simple. Now I just have to argue with my webby for two hours to get him to do it. The guy knows nothing about seo.
  
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liban 18 years ago

Okay. I've created my sitemap, but when I look at it, some of my webpages aren't included. Any idea why? Should I change it manually and resubmit it?
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hughbanks 18 years ago

Hi BJ,

It really depends how intricate your site is.

If all your pages are simple and easily accessible by links you really don't need a site map because the spiders will have no problem finding them.

If your sites are all like the first one I viewed in your signature (at the time of posting this) where it requires searching for pages then most definitely you would want a sitemap for those types of sites.

Sitemaps have many uses when it comes to communicating with crawlers but if all your are wanting to do is use a sitemap for indexing purposes then I wouldn't worry about the sites that are able to be spidered by a simple crawl Since you wouldn't really be telling the engines anything of value.
i.e. how often the site changes or when it was last updated etc.

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- Eric Lorence 18 years ago
  
  There are desktop and server based sitemap generators, and a very good plugin if your using Wordpress.
  
  Personally, I do not use them and it has not affected the level of SE spidering on any of my directories.
  
  Though a valid public sitemap could add points for landing page quality, if using PPC.
  
  They can also help SE's find deep pages quickly.
  
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JonathanBoettcher 18 years ago

Yeah.. a sitemap gets you brownie points with Google if you're using Adwords. They're so easy to do it's hardly worth NOT doing one.

EVERY time I setup a wordpress blog I install this plugin: Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress

It's worth the 5 seconds it takes to setup.
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