Forum Moderators: phranque
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"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Somebody else's redirect from sitemap.xml</title>
<style type="text/css">
p.txt404 {
font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif;
font-size: 12pt;
color: #000000;
}
</style>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
function redirect()
{
window.document.frm404Redirect.submit();
}
// -->
</script>
</head>
<body>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<p class="txt404">Please wait....</p><p class="txt404"></p>
<p class="txt404"></p>
<p class="txt404"></p>
<p class="txt404"></p>
<p class="txt404"> </p>
<tr>
<p class="txt404"><font size="-1">You will be redirected to the storefront in 3 seconds. If you are not redirected <a href="http://www.example.com">click here</a>.</font></p></tr>
</table>
<form name="frm404Redirect" method="POST" action="http://www.example.com/index.asp">
</form>
</body>
</html><script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
setTimeout('redirect()',3000)
// -->
</script>
Others are definitely using a sitemap but I can't find it. Is it smarter to rename the sitemaps and resubmit to Google with new name that no one would know but us?
Any downside to making the sitemap.xml name changes and resubmitting?
Also, if I rename, then I would have to drop the robot.txt
Site: http://www.example.com/new-name.xml - Downside? No difference? Best practices?
