Google Sitemaps

should only have to submit it once, they come by and download it frequently

 

Your answer is very provocative, but I am clueless as to how to execute. I use FrontPage, and its site mapper requires that I put each page in a category and is quite unwieldy. I know Excel fairly well.

Am I in the ballpark? Thanks.

John,

 

Yes You have to submit it only one's but It will download the same sitemap.xml unless you modify it daily!

 

That is the beauty of scripting a dynamic site map.

 

115 times in the past 7 hours. G is having a ball on one of mine.

 

What log analyzer software do you use?
I wonder if that is just one continuous visit aa it attempts to index your site.
A series of reads of the sitemap.xml file spread over time.
If you look at Google sitemap stats requiring your gmail account, does it show as being downloaded 7 hours ago or 0 hours ago?

 

How many pages do you have? Can you copy paste the url's from your front page site map into excel and reformat into the xml format?

Via Freefind they will spider your site, and then show you the url's in their control panel - copy and paste into excel and reformat.

Or Google to find a spider program that can spider your site, give you the url's and then excel them.

 

maybe start with the basics , you don't need to make a complicated sitemap ,
just make a list of all urls from your site.

http://www.example.com/page1.html
http://www.example.com/page2.html
http://www.example.com/page3.html
...

save the file as
http://www.example.com/sitemap.txt
submit it in the
sitemap service
https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps

more info on the simplest sitemap
https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/faq.html#s9

if that works you can try to make it into an xml sitemap

 

grep sitemap.xml.gz /..../access_log | wc -l

Currently 247 hits
First was: 66.249.65.244 - - [30/Jun/2005:12:46:52 -0700] "HEAD /sitemap.xml.gz when I submitted it
last was: 66.249.65.101 - - [01/Jul/2005:15:00:26 -0700] "GET /sitemap.xml.gz HTTP/1.1"

Google Sitemaps - My Sitemaps says : submitted 1 day ago, downloaded 6 hours ago.
Clock on the computer says: Fri Jul 1 15:27:54 PDT 2005

Google hasn't visited any of the pages in the past day, only hammered the sitemap.

 

Wow... try it without gzipping perhaps? That is nuts.

 

damn! i got all excited about the Google Sitemap for Wordpress until i realised it is *or Wordpress*.

once i learn to read properly, can anyone point me to a simple solution for producing a gg sitemap for a large dynamically driven site?

ps i haven't learnt to code properly either.

 

hope this can help

http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/protocol.html

 

google sitemap just worked great for me, all 150 pages of a new website (less than a month) got indexed a day after submitting the sitemap. (I don't have that much of incoming links, around 30 acc. to msn)

 

Is this Google SiteMaps a quicker way to get a new site through the Sanbox waiting time... ?

 

I guess. But it may be the related links too. because the internal pages got crawled more than 10 days before submitting the sitemap but they were indexed the very next day after the sitemap. who knows !!

 

This is MOST helpful ! Thank you very much ! It works

 

It's only helpful if you're incapable of reading documentation.

 

Actually I was ... when I started to read about complicated stuff like python and cronjobs, I gave up. I'm too simple minded for that.

 

I have a huge website, and so I decided to create a sitemap.
I submitted it about ten days ago, and since then, my traffic
has exploded. A few points to note ...

1. My website is about a year old.
2. I never did create a decent sitemap structure previously.
3. Google had bounced pages in and out of its listing for ages.

But, there is one thing I have noticed. My pages don't necessarily
show up, when I look for saturation. In other words, when I ask
Google how many pages are listed, it gives me a pretty crappy
figure - BUT, I am getting visitors to these pages. To many of
my pages, that are not technically listed.

So, I think this is really helping Google. Basically, if someone is
looking for something really specific, and Google cannot find a
nice website to show them, then perhaps it reaches into its
understanding of XML sitemaps, and retrieves something?

My traffic is around ten times higher than last month, and a lot
of visitors are hitting pages that have never had traffic. Only
difference was that I told Google about my new sitemap.

It works. So, if you are too simple, or too lazy to get it to work,
then pay someone to do it for you. It really is worthwhile ...

 

In my opinion, sitemaps aren't as bad as some may think. For example, I submitted my sitemap.xmls to G last month, and just about all the changes I made to my site were recognized faster than the times without. So it came in handy, the sites back in the search keywords it use to be in. I can't say much for my other sites, but I haven't put as much effort into them. So its a small win from the last month when G gave me the smackdown, and shoved my site off to another keyword no one would ever imagine typing but me lmao. Want proof? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ultimate+spy+software I'm number 8 . ultimatespysoftware.com or you can just go to the big G and search keywords ultimate spy software. It use to be ultimate-spy-software, which is beyond annoying, made a few changes, and the next day I was under my old keyword phrase! Now if I can only get a lil higher (like rank 1 or 2) it might be worth it! lol
PS. Dunno if it'll show up under uk, or other nations, cause I set the metas to only be searchable under specific states and didn't want to get carried away and lose my place.