sitemaps

How much tolerance does google have for large site maps...

I have a site map of a few thoasand pages where the only different content on them is the title attribute and the content plotted out in a google map? Will google punish me for this as spam? ...

A simple yet powerful web site map design tool?

I just need to draw a sitemap as a document. Visio conceptual sitemap is an overkill and not friendly. I havent tried COnceptdraw. What I am looking for is a simple lite tool. Good if I can make a flash or exe export so that I can send it to the client. ...

Should I encode special character in my sitemaps?

I have some URL that contains special characters. For example: http://www.example.com/bléèàû.html If you type this URL in a browser, my web server would show the correct page (it can handle special character). I have looked at the sitemaps specs and it's not clear whether or not sitemaps file can contain special character. From what ...

Django sitemap index example

Hi! I have following models relation: class Section(models.Model): section = models.CharField(max_length=200, unique=True) name = models.CharField(max_length=200, blank = True) class Article (models.Model): url = models.CharField(max_length = 30, unique=True) is_published = models.BooleanField() section = models...

Can I specify a default namespace in my XSL stylesheet for each element created?

I am using .NET to transform XML from a DataSet to the sitemap format. Here is where I am at right now. As you can see, I create the root element with the correct namespace. I noticed that if I created child nodes, they all got an empty xmls-attribute (<url xmlns="">...</url>), unless I specified the namespace when I create the element i...

'TemplateDoesNotExist' error with creating Sitemap for Django app

I followed the sitemap activation steps on the django site but i keep getting a 'TemplateDoesNotExist' error. Maybe i am misunderstanding, but isn't genericview supposed to generate the page? ########### url.py #############################3 ......... from django.contrib.sitemaps import FlatPageSitemap, GenericSitemap ........ ...........

blocked links in sitemap

i'm using a online sitemap generator tool which generates links even for which are blocked in robots.txt. Is these blocked links affect site ranking ? . Is there anyway to overcome it ? ...

Google thinks sitemap is invalid but both sitemap index and sitemap itself pass sitemap validation. Error: Missing XML tag

From Googling around it looks like an old Google bug has come back.... http://groups.google.com/group/Google%5FWebmaster%5FHelp-Tools/browse%5Fthread/thread/4e43c2efecb881cf?pli=1 My sitemap index file and sitemap itself validates here: http://www.validome.org/google/validate but Google Webmaster Tools says: Missing XML tag This...

Google Crawl Stats Comparison

Hi guys, I'm in the proccess of speeding up the code and mysql. I'm comparing it to the crawl stats in Google Sitemaps and I was just wondering what other people are seeing for their stats. Mine are High: 266 Average: 158 Low: 115 Thanks ...

Google sitemap files for Rails projects

Is there an easy way to create a sitemaps file for Rails projects? Especially for dynamic sites (such as Stack Overflow for example) there should be a way to dynamically create a sitemaps file. What is the way to go in Ruby and/or Rails? What would you suggest? Is there any good gem out there? ...

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 ...

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;&...

Sitemaps on multiple front end servers using a http handler, is that a good idea?

Question 1 We would like to generate a site map for our CMS site We have multiple front end servers with approx a million articles. Environment multiple MS SQL servers multiple front end servers (load balanced) ASP.net - and IIS 6 Windows 2003 To have the site maps (the site map index file, and the site map files) physically on t...

How do you create an effective web site map?

Hi. We've got a non-profit site that's been up for over 10 years; though it's gone through various redesigns, it's showing its age and needs to be revamped -- inside and out. This includes the layout of the pages as well as the internal structure of the site. As part of rebuilding the site and designing it structure, we'd like to create...

Software for building a sitemap.

If I had to create a content inventory for a website that doesn't have a sitemap, and I do not have access to modify the website, but the site is very large. How can I build a sitemap out of that website without having to browse it entirely ? I tried with Visio's sitemap builder, but it fails great time. Let's say for example: I Want to ...

Access strongly typed siteMapProviders

I'm using a list of siteMapProviders in my web.config file. To retrieve these values in code, I need to specify the names in strings. Understandably, these is always a mismatch at runtime. Is there a way to return a strongly typed enum vlaues of these? ...

How can I generate a SiteMap, compatible with the sitemap protocol?

Hello, just signed up my site with Google Webmasters and im trying to create a Sitemap XML file. I assumed as it is just an XML file that Google would provide a web based generator tool to generate this automatically. but it seems that they do not, and after goggling a "Google Site map generator", nothing obvious was revealed. After ...

Django sitemaps with no associated object (just a view)

Hi, I'm setting up some Django sitemaps. It works really well for all the objects I have, but I'm curious about how I should do it if I'd like to put something in the sitemap that has no object associated with it. For instance, I have a category listing, and I can just return a queryset of all categories. URLs would be example.com/cats...

What is the best tool or utility to create sitemap of a dynamic web based java application ?

We have a web based java/JSF/Spring application for which we want to create sitempas.xml and submit to search engines. We want the process to be automated so that whenever new content is added , the sitempas are generated. Is this the best options we have ? http://code.google.com/p/sitemapgen4j/ ...