31 Comments
- TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Wild guess: it's done with xhtml
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Or you can use the generic XML sitemaps feature that Google/Yahoo/MSN allow webmasters to submit... and use the wordpress plugin to do it:
http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/05/google-sitemaps-generator-v2-final - vuke69, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I'm not really sure if I want to get "Depp-Indexed" by google, at least not on a first date.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Here is the site that details more about the Sitemap XML Standard. This site is made by Google, Yahoo, and MSN.
http://www.sitemaps.org/ - adragons, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2They can be... There is no requirement for a site map, other than to give a direct link to other pages. Site maps could be (x)html, pictures, xml, flash. But search engines generally like html best :P
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3A sitemap will not help your website rank better and if you have your website structured properly, you shouldn't need one to have all of your pages indexed. Having said that, a sitemap can't hurt either and there are some, but extremely few cases in which it is necessary.
( I realize this is targeted toward Wordpress blogs, specifically, but I thought I would point this out, nevertheless. ) - jchrome, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2There is a Drupal module that is available for this as well...
- bonez05, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i think he makes the point that most wordpress blogs are not set up right to get all pages indexed. hence, more than an "extremely few cases" in which it is necessary.
- ileadyouth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1He is serving up text/html as xhtml (that doesn't validate). Where is my valid HTML4 Strict sitemap generator?
Aside from that - Ill stick to a generator that can build both the sitemap on the website, as well as generate the sitemap.xml file for the search engines. Oh, and it won't require wordpress :) - Bloodwine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My biggest question about serving sitemaps to Google is if Googlebot then ignores/skips any pages on your site that is not in the sitemap.
- ASasha, on 03/19/2008, -0/+0you can use another plugin called FAlbum to submit albums with ur sitemap through xml , explained here : http://gadelkareem.com/2007/11/22/adding-falbum-ur ...
- madalinmadalin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I digged you all , good story, helped me understand a few things :D
- Bossakungen, on 11/01/2007, -0/+0very interesting!
http://www.mrimc.com/index.php http://www.mrimc.com/fil.xml http://www.aeani.com http://www.webwarehouse.com/fil2.xml - cosequin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I wish someone could make a tool to convert an xml sitemap to an xhtml sitemap, as well as to an rss (after all they are all based on xml)
- cosequin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0use a froogle addon from here:
http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions
http://www.oscommerce.com/community?contributions=&search=froogle&category=all
http://www.oscommerce.com/community?contributions=&search=bizrate&category=all
http://www.oscommerce.com/community?contributions=&search=xhtml&category=all
http://www.oscommerce.com/community?contributions=&search=rss&category=all
http://www.oscommerce.com/community?contributions=&search=sitemap&category=all
http://www.oscommerce.com/community?contributions=&search=shopzilla&category=all
Don't use google's xml sitemap program for ranking! The xml sitemap program only saves google bandwidth. It doesn't get pages indexed.
You can also add all of your pages to http://www.google.com/bookmarks
This will guarantee that they get indexed FAST! - scomartha, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Thanks a lot! Are you people blind to vote for THIS?
- ecosphere2007, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Hii This is Narender from http://www.webdesigningcompany.net I have sitemaps with 2000+ pages and Google uses it to know my site which I designed 2 months back. I’ve added pages just to it to see what happens and google spiders it (but it was a suplemental result)
- mikehartor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I can't believe it! sweet!
- jrothra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is a great plugin! Easy to use, easy to configure, and works well!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1comment removed by me.
- iplaydu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0I got a half dozen online shops, all using the oscommerce interface from ***** to popsicleshirts and soon a online hobby store, SO!!! any one know how I can index those sites? to improve the their google index
- bonez05, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1that's not the point of this tool. this is to place on your website to make sure all your pages are linked too, so the sitemap generator / google bot can find them .
- BladeMelbourne, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2His site isn't valid XHTML and neither is the sitemap php file.
A elements do not have "alt" attributes (in HTML or XHTML). It is better to use title. Marked as inaccurate. - 200iso, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1sitemaps are XML
- NavinRJohnson, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Yeah the letters gave it away for me.
and the comment under me is so cool! - jalenack, on 10/12/2007, -17/+3Why are they calling it *XHTML* sitemap?


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