ror.xml and google sitemaps

[EWSitesCom]

What is the difference between the ror.xml and google sitemaps files? Should you use both?

[poksa]

ROR is a rapidly growing XML formatted feed for describing your website to the search engines - contents, products, services, reviews, discounts, images, events, schedule, podcasts, blog, anything you want. in short it's just link a feed...

[webprofession]

So, what is best?
ror.xml or google sitemap?

actually I am using google sitemap.
I don't know what is ror.xml.

[joanne-r]

I use both. I use the ror.xml for all other search engines. Go to www.rorweb.com and choose sitemap, type in your url and wait for the program to generate it. Copy then paste it to notepad and save it as ror.xml. Upload it to your root directory. Another good site is www.xml-sitemaps.com. Both are free.

[EWSitesCom]

good info. just wanted to make sure. thanks

[coolguy27]

Originally Posted by joanne-r

I use both. I use the ror.xml for all other search engines. Go to www.rorweb.com and choose sitemap, type in your url and wait for the program to generate it. Copy then paste it to notepad and save it as ror.xml. Upload it to your root directory. Another good site is www.xml-sitemaps.com. Both are free.

Thanks for the ROR generator link... I have already using the xml generator..

Thanks for the link...

[Tariel Zivzivadze]

As I found out you can only generate online ROR sitemap xml if the number of URLs does not exceed 1000. There is a desctop version, which can generate for 5000 URLs. but what can I do, if the number of URLs I have is more than 300 000?

How can it me fast growing [this has been said for two years already], if it does not allow us to generate sitemaps for the big sites?

[Marketing_Team]

Tariel Zivzivadze

i agree with what you said, but first i like say thanks to for other members to describing the ROR in easy words.

i have site which have more then 500, 000 pages. is there any website which can provide me xml ror for my site.

[chloew]

I thought that search engines were starting to use your robs.txt file instead of xml sitemaps

[coolguy27]

Originally Posted by chloew

I thought that search engines were starting to use your robs.txt file instead of xml sitemaps

You mean the robot txt. It is different from xml sitemaps...

xml sitemaps are maps of links of a website while for the robot.txt click this link

[Tariel Zivzivadze]

Marketing_Team
for your purposes [actually I have the same situation] i would recommend GSite Crawler - http://gsitecrawler.com/
a bit swlow, but a reliable tool

[Marketing_Team]

Tariel Zivzivadze

Hi, thanks for reply and software you suggest, now i just download it, will try it and i hope it will work fine.

Thanks again.

[chloew]

So you can put a command in your robots.txt file but you still have to have a sitemap.xml file on your site for it to be seen.

[Thomas Schulz]

ROR is just an extension of RSS (which uses XML). I know of no search engines that state they support ROR extensions. Just try check e.g. Google and Yahoo:

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearc...plorer-45.html and
http://www.google.com/support/webmas...y?answer=34654

No mention of ROR at all. That is in clear contrast to e.g. XML sitemaps protocol
(which also uses XML, but still different from RSS, XHTML and other XML based document standards)

Some time ago I even wrote myself an article about html/rss/ror/xml sitemaps hoping SOMEONE could tell me why they want to use ROR sitemaps

[Mihai]

Good answers, very good tips in this thread. I must thank you for the ROR generator link, I was working around a custom solution before.