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Size of sitemap.xml

What should be maximum size of Sitemap.xml for any e-commerece ASP .Net website. ...

Google mini ignoring sitemap

Hi, I'm in the processing of setting up a Google Mini device to index an ASP.Net site which has a lot of dynamically generated content. I've created a dynamic site.map XML file which lists all of the dynamic URL's. This conforms to the XML site map format and is currently being indexed by Google but seems to be ignored by the Google min...

Is there a way to create a visual site map, for documentation purposes, for a .net web application using VS 2008?

THE BOSS has asked me for documentaion for a website I have just built, including some schematics and a site map. Not an unreasonable request, but I prefer programming over documenting any day. Yes I realise that it is an important part of the process, but lets move on. Wanting to get back to prgramming as quickly as possible I would ra...

Refreshing a sitemap-based menu on ASP.NET site when roles change

I'm using ASP.NET Sitemaps with a custom Role Provider to generate a site Menu that displays available links depending on user role. This works fine if the roles don't change while a user is logged in. When the roles do change while the user is logged in, the Menu isn't automatically updated (I've checked, and the Roles.GetRolesForUser(...

Can anyone give some examples of websites which are using news sitemap?

Hello Everyone, Can anyone give me some example website which are using news sitemap.. I just want to know the format of news sitemap. Please send me the format and the how need to be the url location... ...

About News Sitemap?

In a News sitemap, we need to include URLs for all our articles, but only from the last three days. we shouldn't include older articles. Why we shouldn't old articles and if we keep the old articles what would happen? ...

Google Sitemap and Robots.txt Issue

Hi, We have a sitemap at our site, http://www.gamezebo.com/sitemap.xml Some of the urls in the sitemap, are being reported in the webmaster central as being blocked by our robots.txt, see, gamezebo.com/robots.txt ! Although these urls are not Disallowed in Robots.txt. There are other such urls aswell, for example, gamezebo.com/gamelin...

Readonly SiteMapNodes in ASP.Net MVC?

I'm using MVCSiteMap as a SiteMapProvider for my MVC site. I have a node set up like so.... <mvcSiteMapNode key="1" title="Product" controller="Product" action="Display" isDynamic="true" dynamicParameters="id"> <mvcSiteMapNode key="11" title="More Details" controller="Product" action="MoreDetails" isDynamic="true" dynamicParameters=...

Sitemap for dynamic PHP website ... the "lastmod" field is needed?

Hello, I've a really small website, so I usually update the sitemap by hand! In each "url" element there are the fields: loc, lastmod, changefreq and priority. The "lastmod" field is setup to the date in witch I update the content of the related PHP page or the content that is loaded dynamically in the related PHP page! I've tried to...

A simple Sitemap editor?

I just wonder if there's an easy application that would allow me and others to edit a sitemap for ASP.NET in a more visual way. For me, the XML format isn't difficult to understand but I want someone else to modify a current sitemap for me and this person is unfamiliar with XML and would not understand a non-graphical interface. So, is ...

Sitemap.xml - Google not indexing

Hey, I have created a sitemap for my site and it complies with the protocol set by http://www.sitemaps.org/ Google has been told about this sitemap via webmaster tools. It has tracked all the urls within the sitemap (500+ urls) but has only indexed 1 of them. The last time google downloaded the sitemap was on the 21st of Oct 2009. Whe...

Dynamically changing the title of a SiteMapNode

We have a website that uses a bog-standard default sitemap with security trimming as follows: <siteMap defaultProvider="default" enabled="true"> <providers> <add siteMapFile="~/Web.sitemap" securityTrimmingEnabled="true" name="default" type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToke...

Forms Authentication with Sitemap and asp:Menu control

I have a site with 2 sections - one for customers and one for admins, in essence. Each section is in its own directory with its own web.config and sitemap. Security and access works fine. When I am logged in as admin, I want to see menu items that link to the other section, however. I added links to the sitemap, e.g.: <siteMapNode url...

Convert & to &amp; in Python

Hi! I'm working on a simple crawler in Python. The aim is to create a sitemap.xml. (you can find the very alpha version here: http://code.google.com/p/sitemappy/) I noticed that if I generate the xml with URLs containing non HTML entities (such as &), the xml doesn't validate and it isn't accepted by Google Webmaster Tools. Is there a qu...

How to generate graphical sitemap of large website

Hello, I would like to generate a graphical sitemap for my website. There are two stages, as far as I can tell: crawl the website and analyse the link relationship to extract the tree structure generate a visually pleasing render of the tree Does anyone have advice or experience with achieving this, or know of existing work I can ...

Basic sitemap question: root Disalow issues

Can anyone imagine why this would not work? simple one page site. User-Agent: * Disallow: / Allow: /index.php Allow: /sitemap.xml Sitemap: http://www.uplifted.net/sitemap.xml I have never seen anyone do a root disallow in any examples, but to me this is the most eloquent. Sometimes I run into trouble with this blocking google from fin...

How to Develop a Successful Sitemap

I have been browsing around on the internet and researching effective sitemap web pages. I have encountered these two sitemaps and questioning their effectiveness. http://www.webanswers.com/sitemap/ http://www.answerbag.com/sitemap/ Are these sitemaps effective? ...

Why is my Sitemap.CurrentNode null????

System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Making the Sitemap.CurrentNode work in my code is oddly a problem. I haven't figured out how to list code on STOF yet... so here is the code that will easily be displayed. Title: "localhost/home.aspx/about" Response.write(SiteMap.Curren...

HTML: How to get my subpages listed on a google search

When you go to Google and perform a search, it will return either one of two type of results: just the title of your webpage, or the title of your web-page plus, lists subpages it found on that web site Here is an example of option #2: http://37assets.s3.amazonaws.com/svn/grub-ellis-googlelisting.png My website on a google.com sea...

Will an incomplete google sitemap hurt my search ranking?

If I submit a sitemap.xml which does not contain all of the pages of my site, will this affect my search ranking? For example: If my sitemap only contained pages that had been created in the last month and didn't include all the pages from the past year, would Google treat these missing pages differently? ...