03-24-2007, 07:34 AM
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 | Major | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Centurion, South Africa
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 Re: Path / Layout of Website | |
Quote: | 1.What does this submission to Google imply? | it means that the sitemapper sends to Google a request to spider your site, along with a the created sitemap URL Quote: | 2.Does it mean that Google have then access to this site entire details as long as I use this sitemap? | Google will try to spider all the URLs contained in the sitemap. However, you can, usually, delete from the sitemap, before you upload it, the URLs that you don't want to be spidered. However, a robots.txt file is also usefull to dissallow pages that you don't want to be spidered. Quote: | 3.Is there any security risk in uploading to my site? | No, other than the fact that if you include links that you don't want to be visited, Google will spider them. Quote: 4. Can I still upload and reduce risk by incorportation of scripts, etc.
I am concerned about this as it is mostly young folk that will be accessing this site and would hate for some harmful data to make itself known. | As said, if you do create a sitemap, delete the links to the pages that you don't want spidered. Please note tat Google and other SE will also find ANY other pages, even those not included in the sitemap, if in one of the pages of the sitemap, there are links to these pages. As said, include a robots.txt file to disallow pages, or a "Nofollow" tag (have a look at http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050118-204728) Or, you can include the "Nofollow" and "Noindex" meta tags in the pages you don't want to be indexed.Have a look at http://www.i18nguy.com/markup/metatags.html in the voice "Robots" |