Your Google Sitemap

Thanks dear Brad I load it all done !

Hi Navaldesign,
Am I right or have I got it hoplessly wrong? I downloaded the ror.xml file via blueftp to my html folder and created a hidden link to my index page (not very hidden; click on the red dot ober the "i" in jamesbartondesign title). Now the ror file seems to show only info about my home page: is this as it should be? Also the file looks very, very different depending on which browser it is viewed in: IE,firefox, opera or netscape.

I have also manually created a visual site map, accessible from text navigation at the bottom left of my main pages, including a link to the ror.xml file. Should I have done this?

Would be grateful if you could point out any mistakes in what I have done.

Regards,
James.

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Originally Posted by navaldesign

There are two different kinds of sitemaps:

1. The visual ones. These contain all the links to all your pages that you want indexed by SE. Usually a link to the sitemap page is contained in the homepage.Once a SE has found your dite, it also discovers (from the homepage link) the sitemap page and from there all your pages URLs. This is a human sitemap, but serves as well for SEs too.
2. The SE sitemaps. These are only for SE use, and yes, they are usually in xml (like ROR). It does the same job, but only for SEs.

If you need a visual (human) sitemap as well as a xml sitemap, then you need to use some of the software you can find on the net (usually paid for) that allowes creating (and manually editing, to optimise) both the visual part as well as the xml part. Many of them also allow autoatic submission of the site and sitemap also to SEs.

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Naval? Would you kindly give me the url's of the visual ones that allow automatic submission of the site and sitemap? Preferably the ones that are free? Thanks, you're a sweetie. http://www.vodahost.com/vodatalk/ima...ons/icon14.gif

James

DO NOT PUT A HIDDEN LINK to anything as thats a BIG NO NO. All you have to do is enter a meta tag to tell the SE where your XML site map is located.

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<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="ROR" href="sitemap.xml" />

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And the search engines will see it just fine.

Pristine:

A visual site map is just a page with links on it to all your pages and products.

Heres a list of them on google.. around 4 million.. im sure one of them is FREE!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...+sitemap+maker

Karen

I named my sitemap, sitemap, so if you have left yours as ror, in the link above, change it to ror.xml in the meta tag.

Hidden LINKS, or even the practive of linking one LETTER will get you SE banned and defeat the purpose of putting up a sitemap to start with.

Karen

If you want to see a visual, partial sitemap, go look at charmingnoveltees and look at the very bottom where u see all the pages linked. I have ALL the categories linked there with keywords, I just didnt also add the products themselves, but thats very basically what a VISUAL sitemap is.

Please people dont make simple HARD.

Karen

And robots.txt?, should i do some file named robots.txt and why and HOW?
Very Thank's
Poster4

Do a search on the forum for robots.txt, or on google.

Why should you do a robots.txt file? If you dont want certain areas or pages indexed, or you dont want certain spiders to index you. If you dont have sensitive or members areas on a site, then you really dont need one, except the robots will look for one and your stats will show page NOT found is all.

Karen

Hi,

Sounds great. I used it. But doesn't work!
If I press the generate sitemap button the textbox says:"Crawling website...please wait!". Then after a few seconds it says above the textbox:"processed 0 urls"

What is wrong?

Cheers,

Fred
http://www.westerncapeholiday.com
http://www.westerncapeproperty.co.za

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Originally Posted by Brad

I just came across a very cool little piece of software called "ROR".
ROR will create a sitemap for your website. A sitemap makes it easier
for Google and Yahoo to index your site. If you plan on making it
online. You Need To Have a Sitemap!

http://www.vodahost.com/images/ror2.gif


Click Here to download ROR. It's Free!
1) Download ROR to your desktop
2) Unzip and install ROR3) Where it says Site URL enter your domain name...Our Domain name is www.vodahost.com whats yours?
4) Click "generate sitemap"
5) when the site map is done, click "save as"
6) save it to your desk top as ror
7) upload it to your public_html folder using blueFTP. If you do not know how to do this, click the below link for a tutorial on the topic

http://www.vodahost.com/DemoDemo/ftp...da_blueftp.htm

8) Create a hyperlink from your home page to the xml file. Our homepage hyperlink looks link this http://www.vodahost.com/ror.xml

If you have any questions about ROR or require help with your Sitemap.
Please feel free to ask for help here in this forum. Please DO NOT open
a support ticket for help with ROR. You will be sent back here.

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I set up the ror.xml . When I access it, I get another screen. click on ny address with the ror and you will see what I mean.


http://www.tysoneducationalsystems.com/ror.xml

http://www.tysoneducationalsystems.com/

Hi Tyson,

SO it seems you have a similar problem, of ror not creating a sitemap.

Let's hope someone comes up with the solution.

Cheers,

Fred

I had the same problem. I was using "menu bar" to navigate my site. I switched to " navigation" buttons and that solved that problem, Now I have this problem, one step at a time. What menu system are you using?

Check my post at:

http://www.vodahost.com/vodatalk/hyp...tml#post174143

http://www.tysoneducationalsystems.com/

I am using the navigation bar.
But on my site http://www.westerncapeholiday.com I also use a text menu at the bottom of each page. Moreover, also links in the text on both websites link to the other pages so it seems to me that it is not the navigation bar that is the problem, because ror could have picked up other pages through other links.

It is about time other experts jump in to sort out this issue.

Cheers,

Fred

I ran your your site in ror amd it found 34 url's. Look carefully.

I wish someone would answer my post.

Just wanted to post that for the past 5 days I have noticed the ror site map generator is not working, perhaps they are updating or something similar ... Unless it updates, we won't be able to update from ror

For anyone wanting another site map generator you might consider using this one .. http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

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Originally Posted by LadyEye

Just wanted to post that for the past 5 days I have noticed the ror site map generator is not working, perhaps they are updating or something similar ... Unless it updates, we won't be able to update from ror

For anyone wanting another site map generator you might consider using this one .. http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

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Thanks for that Lady, what a pain! I use that all the time..

I'll try the one you have given us above. Do keep us informed about the other one though won't you.

Thanks Again

Why does is say when I install and run ROR that there has been 0 processed URL's for my website?

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Originally Posted by mariah

Why does is say when I install and run ROR that there has been 0 processed URL's for my website?

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Hi Mariah,

Please look two posts above your post and you will see there apparently is a problem at the moment with the sitemap generator.

(whistling) I dunno where Miss Holly could have gotten that site...

But it does work nicely and you can do an html one to put on your site for your customers as well with a tad bit of editing.

Karen

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Originally Posted by Karen Mac

(whistling) I dunno where Miss Holly could have gotten that site...

But it does work nicely and you can do an html one to put on your site for your customers as well with a tad bit of editing.

Karen

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Now ... Who you Gonna Call ...
Ghostbusters That's Who!!

LMAO at you ....
LE <------- goes back to the whistling kettle, lol ...