Need advice on making SiteMap

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We have 200K+ pages website and no decent sitemap. I have programmers that can make it for me, if I tell what I need. The problem is I have no clue what I need. Any one can help?
A bit about site: Site is 100% 'homemade", has directory with 4-page listings of each compony, articles, local pages (all counties and cities), calendar, etc.
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  • Have you tried looking at similar sites as your own? Check out their sitemaps..

    Anyway, go to Creating and submitting Sitemaps - Webmasters/Site owners Help
    Find this Create a Sitemap > General guidelines for URLs in SitemapsSee more:
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  • Thanks webtrix, will check them out. Any ideas on custom written sitemap scripts? DO they make sense at all?
  • Try this out......... its a site map auto script that automatically makes a site map for you. http://www.qualitydigitaldownloads.c...Cat=Web Master
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  • Are you talking about an XML sitemap for the searches or one for your visitors?
    If for Google I believe the maximum amount of urls per site map is 50,000 so you have to break it up into multiple pages and use a sitemap index like this: http://www.homecomputergames.com/sitemapindex.xml
    Don't click the products sitemaps because you will get 50,000 listing on your page.

    Most of the scripts I have seen out there will time out because of PHP memory issues.
    So you may have to set your allocated memory accordingly.

    I scripted my generator myself which pulls all information from the DB and generates the index and various other sitemaps.

    If you mean a sitemap for your visitors you will want to watch how many items per page you show them as you may crash some browsers. So I would keep the sitemap for the visitors to just categories and non product pages if possible.
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  • I've just completed a sitemap for a site with 140,000+ pages. Basically, I've done exactly what was suggested by HomeComputerGames, except I also use the priority and lastmod tags. It is a database site that is split into states, so my sitemap.xml links to state.xml's.

    I can almost guarantee that an automated product will fail horribly when trying to create a sitemap for 200K pages.
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    • I couldn't agree more with jimbo999. With this many pages, your best bet is to build a customized solution. I have done this for clients in the past and it's much easier to maintain and verify.

      If there are logical ways to separate the pages into groups, I would use this as a natural way to segregate your xml files for the search engines.
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  • Thank you, EWGQDD, HomeComputerGames , jimbo999 , Jeff Poulton.

    HomeComputerGames, I was wondering is it possible to see the script you write for yourself?
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  • As CharismaticV said. Try google for "Free sitemap maker" or "Sitemap Generator" and you will find something:-).


    Regards,
    A.N
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    Need advice on making SiteMap

    Help! We have 200K+ pages website and no decent sitemap. I have programmers that can make it for me, if I tell what I need. The problem is I have no clue what I need. Any one can help? A bit about site: Site is 100% 'homemade", has directory with 4-page listings of each compony, articles, local pages (all counties and cities), calendar, etc.