changes to sitemaps

seberly · 09-20-2007, 09:56 AM

My apologies if I'm posting this in the wrong forum. I just recently got my site up. My question is if I make a change to a page or add pages do I need to do a new sitemap? If I do need to do this would I delete the old sitemap and then replace it with the new one? If someone can explain this process to me it would really help. Thanks Steve.

noob_0001 · 09-20-2007, 10:07 AM

Is this site built by hand or run by a CMS?

If it is run by a CMS, then it might automatically update the sitemap for you. You might have to click on a link to have the program re-generate it for you.

If you hand code the site, then you will have to add the changes to the site map or have a program make you another sitemap. There are many place on the web where you can get a sitemap made for free.

seberly · 09-20-2007, 10:14 AM

thanks for the reply. I'm new to all this so forgive my ignorance. I don't know what CMS means. I built the site using microsoft expression web, and then used gsitecrawler to build the sitemaps....

bogs · 09-20-2007, 02:57 PM

if you have sitemap page on your.. you should change it.. but the one that you send to SEs? i think thats fine not to create and submit again...

seberly · 09-20-2007, 04:37 PM

i'm still confused on this as what I need to do?

acwebguru · 09-21-2007, 02:07 AM

You can make a sitemap.xml once for your site. And resubmit/update every time whenever you will add a new page or do any up gradation over there at your site.

Print · 09-21-2007, 06:36 AM

create a ror site map ror.xml this is what search engines look for.