Sitemaps????

[Calisonder]

did anyone else have trouble with seting up sitemaps? i'm no coder so i don't know what i'm doing and I read things like "make a space-delimited text file" in googles sitemap tutorial/template and i feel helplessly lost.



does anybody know any good sites the speak in laymen's terms?

thanks

[ilu]

You can easily create sitemaps from automated online tools http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

[Calisonder]

wow thanks, that was very easy, i wonder why google makes it so complicated to do

[ilu]

nice to see that it helped you..
How about positive rep

[bermuda]

Even creating some simple sitemap pages like, sitemap.html and sitemap.php and other formats can be helpful and all search engines will be liking them, Google sitemap too is recommended.

[charlesgan]

i follow this sitemap fever once. and honestly i didnt see any benefit of doing so.
just know that i spend lots of time to create and upload the sitemap.

[Calisonder]

Originally Posted by ilu

nice to see that it helped you..
How about positive rep

i've been asking way more questions latley then helping other people so it won't let me give any away

[Chatmaster]

What is most frustrating is how long it can take to generate the XML sitemap everytime. Many of my sites have more than 100,000 pages, it can really take some time to generate these sitemaps.

[coolguy27]

Originally Posted by Calisonder

did anyone else have trouble with seting up sitemaps? i'm no coder so i don't know what i'm doing and I read things like "make a space-delimited text file" in googles sitemap tutorial/template and i feel helplessly lost.



does anybody know any good sites the speak in laymen's terms?

thanks

you can use this link...

www.sitemapdoc.com

It's one of the best sitemap generator....

You can choose what sitemap you want like rss, xml and html sitemap..

Hope you like it...

[mastermemei]

fyi: http://www.xml-sitemaps.com is recommended for sites with less that 500 pages.

[jesse1]

yeah they aren't so hard.

I used http://search-dir.com/ror.php

have to get a google account too though

[Johan007]

Get the sitemap to update automatically without having to upload or download by simpling displaying the values server side SQL.

If you do not have a database driven site to do this then do not bother becuase your site is unlikely to benefit from quicker indexing given to higher PR sites.

[Thomas Schulz]

Originally Posted by Chatmaster

What is most frustrating is how long it can take to generate the XML sitemap everytime. Many of my sites have more than 100,000 pages, it can really take some time to generate these sitemaps.

It depends on your website. For some it may take as little as 4-5 hours scanning a website that size. However, something worth trying can be to host your website at localhost. When creating the sitemap, just ask the program (at least my - supports this) to use a different root address (e.g. your domain name instead of your localhost address).