Need help with sitemap.xml

13 years ago

Most sites don't need a sitemap. If google cannot crawl
your site effectively without one, your site has a problem.

There are ways around the 500 limit. There may be free and paid
generators that are available for more. They do it by splitting
them up or something.

I have never been a fan of sitemaps.

Paul

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Michaelvb

13 years ago

Google webmaster tools friend

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gamez4you 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Michaelvb

Google webmaster tools friend

What do you mean GWM? I'm using it and it fails while I'm trying to submit there.
The XML was fine for 500 URL's, now it fails. I tried to re-submit several times, fails all the time.
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- Brian Alaway 13 years ago
  
  You can create multiple sitemaps via a sitemap index file: sitemaps.org - Protocol
  
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  gamez4you 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Brian Alaway
  
  You can create multiple sitemaps via a sitemap index file: sitemaps.org - Protocol
  
  wow, that's so complex to figure out. If I split my sitemap to sitemap1.xml and sitemap2.xml and create a sitemapindex file, do I submit to GWT the sitemapindex file or one of the sitemaps?
  
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  Microsys 13 years ago
  
  Many sitemap tools (plugins and programs) including e.g. A1 Sitemap Generator automatically split sitemaps for you when/if necessary.
  
  Strictly speaking the limit is 50k URLs in XML sitemaps protocol, but some may choose to split earlier than that.
  
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yukon

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by gamez4you

I generated a sitemap from xml-sitemap.com, but it limits the URL number to 500. Pretty quickly I reached that number, now I need to create a new sitemap.
I have an older website with nearly 1000 indexed url's. I tried to copy the sitemap.xml from the old site, copy the links from the new one and submit it, but the submission fails.

I tried creating new sitemaps but they all fail to submit.
Any suggestions?

Thanks for the help.

The way you handle this is:

1) Create a master sitemap that only includes the URLs to the real sitemaps.

2) Create as many sitemaps as you want, include each sitemap url in the master sitemap (step #1 above).

Here is a perfect example of a master xml sitemap, notice all the real sitemaps inside this xml file.

http://www.metacafe.com/googleMRSSIndex.xml

The above link is how large sites manage thousands of pages in their xml sitemaps. The above link also includes 478 xml sitemap URLs in their master sitemap.

This way you only submit a single sitemap (master xml sitemap) to Google.

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ezine

13 years ago

Try to move to wordpress platform and there are many plugins free or paid for generating xml. Paid tools is given rss or backlinks effect for every url.

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  Matt Red 12 years ago
  
  If you're running on wordpress you could just search for a plugin that will get the job done.
  
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