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andyx
Joined: Dec 20, 2005
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Posted: 2005-Dec-20 20:56
Hi everyone,
This might be an obvious one, but could anyone show me or provide a link to a sitemap example page so i could create one for my site,
I've been reading about them but are just a little unsure what they contain as far as code "info", and can't find an example to follow.
Thanks AndyX 
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mo007
Joined: Dec 13, 2005
# Posts: 52
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Posted: 2005-Dec-20 21:14
A Site Map is a simple html page that includes links to every page of your website that you want the robot to index, all the links must be plain html links so the robot bot can follow them. You have to have a link to the sitemap page on your index page, you can take a look at the web site and visit their sitemap:
http://www.rbcroyalbank.com/RBC:Q6idW471A8cAALRoDpI/sitemap.html
((Admin note: linking to a good sitemap is just fine.))
I have to write the url above that way, because we’re allowed to post any url in the forum. All you have to do is write the url in the correct format in your broser.
Hop this will help.
[ Message was edited by: bhartzer 12/20/2005 04:07 pm ]
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bhartzer
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Joined: Jun 08, 2000
# Posts: 7042
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Posted: 2005-Dec-21 00:10
Sitemaps should generally be added to a site for the users' benefit, not the search engines. In fact, a page with just a lot of outgoing links and no content is pretty much useless nowadays when it comes to SEO purposes.
An alternative to a sitemap is a good breadcrumb trail. A good breadcrumb trail will help with rankings and will also get the site crawled.
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andyx
Joined: Dec 20, 2005
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Posted: 2005-Dec-21 09:39
Many thanks you two,
It's always the easy ones that you sometimes scratch your head on, until you realize.
Very simple, i'll get on it straight away.
Andyx
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andyx
Joined: Dec 20, 2005
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Posted: 2005-Dec-21 10:48
Just had a thought,
Would i be able to show my sitemap on a .php page as i could generate this map and all pages directly from my database so it would be automatically updated ??
I've also been reading about an XML sitemap, stating other information like:-
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
< urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84">
< url>
< loc>http://www.example.com/</loc>
< lastmod>2005-01-01</lastmod>
< changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
< priority>0.8</priority>
</url>
</urlset>
Would this be placed in a .txt file say "urllist.txt" for the spiders to crawl.
Is it necessary to have more than one, eg the .PHP for the public to see and a .txt for the spiders to read and use ???
AndyX
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g1smd
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Joined: Jul 28, 2002
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Posted: 2005-Dec-21 12:11
The sitemap above is an XML file specifically for Google.
Use that in addition to a regular HTML sitemap for your visitors to use.
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searchbliss
Joined: Jan 15, 2006
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Posted: 2006-Jan-16 15:02
The key is yto have a site map that is "static" for search engines to spider and get around you site easy (deeper crawl), but you also want it to be compact and easy to use for your visitors.
[ Message was edited by: searchbliss 01/16/2006 10:43 am ]
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