A site map (or sitemap) is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users.
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two sitemaps - possible problems?
I am using a web shop software and for some reason the main page (http://www.mysite.com/) is not being listed / generated within the automatic sitemap.xml while every other page is.
My question now: ...
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Can a sitemap index file reference sitemap files under different domains?
My company owns several domain names. We also host websites for our users at their custom domains.
Our domains:
company.com
product1.com
product2.com
Users's domains:
user1.com
user2.com
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Trying to create my first sitemap
I'm inserting a website map for the first time. I found this page:
http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html
That page shows examples about sitemaps with xml, should I insert and xml code in my html? ...
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Sitemap file linked from another Sitemap file
I currently have a site setup that, in addition to regular static pages, also has a WordPress blog. This results in my main site having a sitemap.xml file listing the basic pages and then a sitemap ...
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what should be my initial address for sitemap and robots.txt if I'm using redirection
What should be my initial adress when using this site: http://www.xml-sitemaps.com?
I have a folder inside my root where I have all my files.
For example I have domain.com and my start directory is ...
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index pages that only can find with search [duplicate]
I have a website that have 5 static pages and more than 700 dynamic contents that only can access them by search.
I create sitemap.xml that include 5 static pages and whole of dynamic contents.
But ...
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Site indexed in Google but not in Bing [duplicate]
I have a site, with an XML sitemap, that has tens of thousands of pages. Google's webmaster tools show that almost all fo the pages are indexed, but Bing's show that only about 300 pages are in the ...
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Is there an XML sitemap generator with command line interface for nginx on Linux?
I'm looking for an XML sitemap generator that can be triggered from the command line, supports nginx, and works on Linux (Debian). What can you recommend?
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Paginating sitemaps
My sitemap is huge (200k+ articles), so I want to implement pagination of the sitemap itself.
My question is what parameter do most search engines look for in a sitemap pagination? page=... or maybe ...
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Google's webmaster tools saying invalid URL in sitemap
I've recently made some big changes to my site and as a result, have had to change my sitemap. In doing so, I resubmitted my sitemap file only to see 3 errors reading invalid URL's. I'm not sure if ...
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Need I submit sitemap in Webmaster Tools?
I have uploaded my sitemap on server root folder. Do I need it submit it in Google Webmaster Tools?
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Webmaster tools show old URLs are crawled
We renewed our website last year (2012) in December. After that we have put 301 redirection in place for the required pages. We removed some pages in old site when we moved to new site.
For example ...
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If my index page has no textual content, should it be present in sitemap?
My index page contains no textual content at all (except some footer links, copyright notice and some stuff in tag). It has, however, big Google's map with some pins attached which lead to articles. ...
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In regards to seo, is a site map important for a small 3 page website?
In regards to seo, is a site map important for a small 3 page website? I understand that it is not needed for the convenience of a user visiting the site, but will it help the search engines find it?
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Right canonical pages for encylopedia-style site
I have a website that contains a lot of short (150 word) descriptions of key concepts. The concepts are organised hierarchically so a description of Cheese will be a subsection under the heading "Milk ...
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What is the process of dynamic sitemap creation? [closed]
I am working on a website which have 12Lack pages, so, I want build dynamic sitemap hence I want to know the process of dynamic sitemap creation. tell me if have another way to create sitemap for such ...
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Multiple Sitemaps Doesn't Index Quickly - How To Get Quick Index
I have a serious problem in my site: http://www.coimbatorematrimony.com
I will create multiple sitemaps.xml with all terms & conditions of Google Webmaster and some other search engines. I have ...
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Solution for large scale site maps
I'm working on a nationwide retail web site with thousands of categories and product pages and my client wants to move from a single sitemap to multiple sitemaps based on page categorization. Here is ...
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How often does GWT check dynamic sitemaps?
I'm working on a fairly large site, that generates a dynamic sitemap hourly. Now in Google Webmaster Tools the sitemap isn't submitted yet and I'm shying away because I'm afraid that the new content ...
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Are there specific advantages or disadvantages of an XML sitemap over a TXT based sitemap?
Are there any specific advantages or disadvantages in generating an XML based sitemap in place of a simple txt based sitemap (list of URLs)?
I realize that in the XML format I can set priority and ...
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Some websites on google have the main link and then important sub-links under the mainlink, how can i achieve that with my website [duplicate]
Kindly click this link to view the picture as i cannot post the picture due to less rep
How can i list my website in the same way as this website in the picture above?
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How to create and submit multiple sitemaps into categories?
I have a questions. I need to know how to create and submit multiple sitemaps into categories? This is for a big online auction site with a lot of products that needs to be indexed.
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SoLoMo landingpage localized regionalized down to cities and SEO sitemap.xml
I'm working on an SoLoMo (social local mobile) web application. How would you realize the site and the landingpages that they are seo and crawler friendly? Any best-practises out there?
I know there ...
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Network unreachable: robots.txt unreachable
I am trying to add a valid sitemap to Google Webmaster. Yet, it says:
Network unreachable: robots.txt unreachableWe were unable to crawl
your Sitemap because we found a robots.txt file at ...
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Is it possible to find out whether one given page has been indexed?
When one submits sitemaps in Google Webmaster, Google may not index all pages of your site/blog.
Is there a way to find out whether one specific page belonging to the sitemap has been indexed or not? ...
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Does Google reprocesses submitted sitemaps from time to time?
Assuming one submits a sitemap for a website in Google Webmaster, does Google reprocess it from time to time? If yes, at which rate?
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How to get google and bing to index original image, not thumbnail?
I've read this post Make google index the actual image not the thumbnail but my case is a little different.
I have over a thousand images, in many different directories, with many different names, ...
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Blog entry visibility to search engines [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Dynamic sitemap file
I am completely new to seo thing, so I need help for optimizing my webportal for search engines. I am developing a web-portal in which users can ...
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Same sitemap submitted for .com and .co.uk domain
Not to sure why I did this. But I submitted the same sitemap for our .co.uk and .com domain.
Looking to put the .com domain on different hosting and create a new site for international customers ...
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Sitemaps - do I need to submit each sitemap in sitemap_index.xml to Google Webmaster tools?
I am having a Wordpress blog on my CentOS server. There is no sitemap.xml in the root directory but there is sitemap_index.xml file in the root directory which contains the following code:
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what's wrong with my sitemap?
Google Webmaster Tools says that my sitemap is in a wrong format. I don't see my mistake, I think I followed every guideline provided by Google.
Can someone help me?
Inline sitemap below, but in ...
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Google indexes everything but homepage [duplicate]
I own markasoftware.getenjoyment.net. I submitted a sitemap for it, but Google is still not indexing things right: It indexes everything but the homepage!!! I have a JavaScript game on the site and it ...
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Blogger still visible after moving to WP; Google Indexing issues after moving from Blogger to WP
I recently migrated from Blogger to Wordpress and am having two major transition issues that are really hurting. Despite literally hours of searching and experimenting, I cannot resolve the following:
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403 Error Crawling Pages
I am receiving more than 6000 errors in Google Webmaster Tools. It is showing "access denied"; can anyone please help me out with resolving this?
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Making sub domain the new main domains for ssl [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
301 redirect and page ranking
What would be your best advise for changing your main domain to a sub domain? Are site used to be example.co.uk but has now changed to ...
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What factors help in getting a site indexed by Google fast? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the best ways to increase a site’s position in Google?
What should I do to get a site indexed on Google, fast? Taking example of Super User I just did a quick ...
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How frequently Googlebot fetch sitemaps? Is it depending on PageRank?
How much frequently Google fetches sitemaps?
I am now working with a high traffic website normally have 30 new posts per minute but currently it provides sitemaps which links to new 100 posts (3 ...
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Visual sitemap generater
Im looking for a something to visually create a sitemap for one of my websites. Id like something in a tree structure, so I have the hierarchical view of my site.
A couple requirements I have tho, ...
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Using Extension:Maintenance to generate sitemap MediaWiki
I'm using MediaWiki 1.19.2. I want to generate a sitemap.xml. Here's the documentation.
We have to use a maintenance script to generate the sitemap.xml. So I use the extension Maintenance but I ...
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Powermapper alternatives and google analytics?
Whats a good application to map the hierarchical structure of a website and maybe get some google analytic action going on?
Powermapper is pretty expensive and the trial version didnt seem ...
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MediaWiki sitemap generator
I'm using mediawiki for my site. I'm trying several ways to generate sitemap but it doesn't work. Anyone knows how to generate sitemap for MediaWiki and alert to Google automatically?
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SEO consideration for duplicate sites
I am building a brochure-ware website for a company that sells products all across the world. They need the site to ask the user what region they are in before using the site; there are 5 regions. ...
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mod_rewrite and SEO friendliness
My website has an atypical structure and I'm not sure if this could create problems in the long run, specially for SEO positioning purposes.
I have a unique, large PHP script, and I use the Apache ...
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Only 10% of my site are indexed [duplicate]
I'm newbie in Google Webmaster Tools and I use sitemap.xml to submit urls.
The problem is that I've submitted 150 urls and only 17 are indexed! Is that a problem or they will be indexed later?
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Issue with sitemap in GWT
I have an e-commerce website www.beyondtime.in, i have been constantly monitoring the google bot crawling on my website and my webmaster account. Lately, i have found two issues that i have not been ...
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Which kind of public sitemap should I build for a search based navigation site
I have a search based navigation web-site. Each query has filters as well as sort-by. The search results point to end-pages inside the site. Each of those pages has many outlinks to other end-pages. ...
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Trade off: Lower the number of URLs in sitemap from 43k to 23k or update the sitemap.xml only weekly basis
we rewrote the sitemap creation process. Now the sitemap contains 43.000 URLs. 20k more than before. We have daily changing in URLs.
The script that is creating the complete sitemap takes more than ...
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In Google Webmaster Tools we have 3 sitemaps attributed to 1 domain
I have a website that has been on the internet for almost 10 years created in "Microsoft FrontPage" with over 900 pages. Currently in Google Webmaster tools it shows up as 2 domains and 3 sitemaps:
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Handling SEO for Infinite pages that cause external slow API calls
I have an 'infinite' amount of pages in my site which rely on an external API. Generating each page takes time (1 minute). Links in the site point to such pages, and when a users clicks them they are ...
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browse-able hierarchy vs. sitemap
The current site navigation is done through a search form. UX wise, I feel it's the best solution we can currently offer our uses. Because this is the case, I have a sitemap that covers all the pages ...
