Site Map

Help with adding a site map at google

[ElvisFan]

Okay.... I have generated a site map at one of those sites that google suggested. (because I realised that google only spiders my index page not my whole site)

Okay... got the code... (huge) as I have over 200 content pages.

Okay... my question is? Now how do I proceed?

Do I just create a page in FrontPage and call it SiteMap.htm drop the code in there and publish?

Then inform google that the code is at
www.mysite/SiteMap.htm

Is that correct... or do I need to do something more?

thanks

[j4mes]

Put the generated code into a text editor and name it [whatever].xml, then tell Google of its whereabouts on the sitemaps page.

The extension doesn't actually matter AFAIK, but the code is XML so the extension might as well reflect it :-)

*Don't* paste the code into frontpage, it will break it, just a text editor is fine.

J.

[Alioc]

Submit with this string:

www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=fullURLtoyoursitemap.xml

Third party tools if you don't want to run the phyton script. There are reported bugs that it makes some servers crash.

These are better alternatives:

[code.google.com...]

BTW, a list of 200 URLs shouldn't be considered huge. If it's really huge, say 5000++ URLs, you can GZIP (sitemap.xml.gz) Google supports this zipped file.

[aaronpaul]

The GSiteCrawler mentioned in the Google link in the above post seems to work pretty well. If you feed it your 200 URLs, it will crawl them all and then create the XML file for you. It's great if you're looking for a GUI. THen you just go to the Google Sitemaps page and fill out a form, or use the ping tactic mentioned above.

And 200 is very manageable, no need to zip it up. I have a client with 60,000 URLs in a Sitemaps file. Someone on WebmasterWorld mentioned they have a file with 11 million...