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.htaccess gone for deleted, permalink database entries

Hi Gang, I have event entries in a php application with a permalink structure for the events. I'm creating a dynamic xml sitemap for google et al. which creates new url nodes as events are added, and when an event is in the past, the priority level automatically gets adjusted downward. My question has to do with 404 not found errors...

How do I create google xml sitemap and robot.txt file?

Hi I'm a bit of a beginner at seo, Could anyone tell me how I create and xml sitemap and robots.txt file for my site. Is there some kind of generator for them? Thanks for your help Regards Judi ...

Creating a three level ASP.NET menu with SiteMap, how do i do it?

I want to create a three level menu, I have got a recursive function today that works with three levels. But the thing is how do i output the third lever? Using two repeaters i have managed to get a hold of the first two levels through the ChildNodes property. But that only gives me the second level. What if a want the third level? Examp...

Share Site Map Across Multiple Projects

I had this big problem. Now, I've refactored my code to have a data layer, business layer and the main project as the view layer. Next I'd like to split this big project smaller projects based on discrete functionality. As I understand it, one way to handle a shared masterpage is to copy it into each project, that's not the worst ...

Why use a Google Sitemap?

I've played around with Google Sitemaps on a couple sites. The lastmod, changefreq, and priority parameters are pretty cool in theory. But in practice I haven't seen these parameters affect much. And most of my sites don't have a Google Sitemap and that has worked out fine. Google still crawls the site and finds all of my pages. The...

How to resolve sitemap node like View.aspx?type=in&currency=1&id=2

What is the best way to implement StaticSiteMapProvider.FindSiteMapNode() or override XmlSiteMapProvider.FindSiteMapNode() as I do so sitemap provider could support resolving nodes with complex queries with multiply paramaters like this: View.aspx?type=in&currency=1&id=2 basing on sitemap definition like this: <siteMapNode url="View....

Automated sitemap in CakePHP

I'm following this tutorial for creating automated sitemaps in CakePHP. Everything is easy, but I'm not able to output XML. The controller looks like function sitemap () { Configure::write ('debug', 0); $cats = $this->Category->find('all', array('fields' => array('nicename', 'modified')), null, -1); $posts = $this->Post->fin...

Accessing SiteMapNode Container.DataItem from outside of Parent Repeater.

Hi, I am trying to access the current 'active' top level node from a sitemap repeater from outside of the ASP.NET repeater used to render it, this is for CSS styling purposes as I want to place the child nodes on the subsequent row with different styling horizontally. At present I have the following code which I can't get to display cor...

Google Sitemap Non-Specific Error

Google's Webmaster Tools gives me the following status about my sitemap, but there is no specific error. The XML seems to be valid. Any ideas? URLs in Sitemap: Total: 7, Indexed: 6 Submitted: Feb 14, 2010 – Error Downloaded: Feb 14, 2010 Sitemap errors and warnings Line: - Status: We encountered an error while trying to access you...

ASP.NET MVC Google Sitemap from ContentResult - Incorrect namespace

I created a sitemap generated by a ContentResult however Google keeps telling me my namespace is incorrect. Any ideas? My Code: public ContentResult Index() { //Build RSS for sitemap XNamespace ns = "http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"; const string url = "http://www.openarmssoberliving.com/{0}"; ...

PHP - CMS Sitemap ... to much queries used / how to improve it?

Check this out, sorry for external link but it looks ugly here (maby iam to stupid to format it correct) ^^ http://codepad.org/GiOgLhNE Join my irc channel if you like to talk to me tinyurl.com/ylsf7ef (webchat) ...

Will it affect a site's google page ranks when a google sitemap is uploaded for the first time?

Short Version: What are the chances that a site's various sub-pages' page-ranks will suffer if a proper google sitemap is submitted for the first time? Long Version: I'm working with a website that has some rather impressive organic page ranking on some of its sub-pages. They've never submitted a sitemap to google, which has caused s...

Stop a master page from auto-correcting or adjusting URLs

How can I stop a master page from auto-correcting or adjusting my urls? I am using a site map and when the master page is in another directory, it messes it up the urls. Edit I don't want to do this globally, I want to do this on an individual master page. Edit 2 I do not have access to the urls. They are generated by a sitemap. Edit ...

Search Engines Crawling Question

the main page of my site is /home.php This page has pagination with anchor tags that link to many other queries of the same page, for example /home.php?start=4 /home.php?start=8 and so on... My question is, when i include the home.php page in a sitemap will crawlers crawl what ever page home.php links to(ex. /home.php?star=4)? or d...

Coding concept needed to build a page sitemap

I'm working on a CMS using VB.NET 3.5 and I'm stuck on a concept. I have different modules that do different things like wysiwyg, contact form, image gallery, etc... but one that is becoming a bit of a challenge is wrapping my head around "how" to build a sitemap. For the record, I am NOT talking about an SEO Sitemap (XML), but rathe...

Implement a web service that provides a sitemap

Hi, I have a complex web site in ASP.NET and c# using a class that inherits from XmlSiteMapProvider to build a site map used by asp:menu through asp:SiteMapDataSource. I would like to build a web service that given the user details will provide the map (based on user roles). 1)I already have the class that inherits from XmlSiteMapProvid...

How can I obtain an xml file from XmlSiteMapProvider?

Hi, I have a web service (c#) that builds a SiteMapNode. I want the service to return this node but it is not possible since it is not serializable. How can I solve this? Is there a way to get the sitemap in xml format and return it as a string from the service? Any suggestion is welcome ...

CakePHP recommendation to iterate a huge table and generate a sitemap?

I'm trying to create an XML sitemap using CakePHP, from a table which has more than 50,000 records at the moment, each record equivalent to a URI in the sitemap. Now the problem I'm facing is CakePHP is running me out of memory while generating it, for two reasons: A find('all') is building a huge associative array of the entire set of...

How to bind an xml sitemap string to asp:menu in ASP.NET

Hi, In my ASP.NET Page_load I have this code: SiteMenu.DataSource = new XmlDataSource(); ((XmlDataSource)SiteMenu.DataSource).ID = "menu"; ((XmlDataSource)SiteMenu.DataSource).Data = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><siteMap> <siteMapNode title=\"default\" description=\"my title\" url=\"http://www.google.com\"/&gt;&...

What is the best way to generate a sitemap?

Hi everybody, I need to build a sitemap for my website. The url will be "www.example.com/mysitemap.html". I know that there are some tools that generate automatically an XML file that contains the reachable URLs and also improve the SEO. So my questions are: How can I build this HTML page going from the generated XML? Or am I wrong and ...