Sitemap

[marke]

Not sure whether this has already been requested or not but couldn't find it if it has. When we upload an Actinic site Actinic creates a set of urls for the site pages. Strikes me that it shouldn't therefore be the greatest feat of software engineering to produce an xml sitemap from the same information. Would be very good if this could be built into Actinic at some point. It could be just a simple excel type list of urls which you can then edit manually into a sitemap.xml or there could be a whole new menu function around creating sitemap.xml, adding relative page priorities, including non Actinic pages etc. Would be a nice extra especially now that the major search engines are all accepting references to sitemap.xml in the robots.txt file.

[RuralWeb]

Not for me thank you - unless I could select NOT to use it.

[leehack]

There are so many free sitemap generators available, i don't think there would ever be the need to have such a feature. Simply visit a sitemap creator, put in your url and it will do the rest for you in about 90 seconds on a large site.

The more features incorporated into software, the harder it is to maintain and more importantly keep up to date. Froogle feeds are testament to this, with the best solution actually being to not use the one actinic provide.

[pinbrook]

doesn't Mole-Ends Free Sitemap generator do the same thing?

[RuralWeb]

There are so many free sitemap generators available

There certainly are and many feed your content into clone sites.

My advice is NEVER EVER use a site map generator that you dont know the source of. I think jo is correct that jan produces a site map generator and I would certainly trust that one over any freeby I found on the internet.

[leehack]

Jan's sitemap generator and froogle feed have always been great and up to date. Little need to look any further for most. Unless i'm mistaken her froogle feed has always been a step ahead of actinic's.

[RuralWeb]

Heres jans sitemap generator - its FREE http://www.mole-end.biz/acatalog/Froogle_Mash.html

[Jan]

Thanks chaps, only just noticed this thread, thee is a free yahoo sitemap as well, both include all product and brochure pages.

Regards,

[PaulGrimshaw]

Hi,

Just adding me to this. A basic sitemap generator (checkbox on each page to select etc) that uploads to msn/google/yahoo should really be included as default, especially as all the major engines are using the same format now. Uploading should be part of the normal upload routine.

jans looks good and I am planning to get it for some of the other mash ups that it has, but come on, actinic should have it built in to some degree.

incidently, why doesnt actinic come up with some sort of 3rd party integration system with hooks, so jan could write her program so that it is actually integrated into actinic... (e.g. if installed, each time you do an upload, her routine is run and uploaded also)...?

thanks,
Paul.

[RuralWeb]

Just adding me to this. A basic sitemap generator (checkbox on each page to select etc) that uploads to msn/google/yahoo should really be included as default, especially as all the major engines are using the same format now. Uploading should be part of the normal upload routine.

It should NOT be included as default but as a selectable option if the site owner wants to use it - IMO jans is all you need.

[jonpugh114]

I've just downloaded the Mole End product mash, with the intention of submitting a Google sitemap, but I haven't got a clue how to use it. Is there a "guide for dummies" anywhere?

Cheers,

Jon

[Duncan Rounding]

I'm sure ME will have information on how to use the Mash but for the G sitemap see (you will need to create a Google account if you don't have one already):
https://www.google.com/accounts/Serv...Fhl%3Den&nui=1

[Jan]

The product help contains details of how to create a Google sitemap account and how to configure and submit the feed, so you should read that and follow the instructions in there.

Regards,

[jonpugh114]

The product mash tells me that I've successfully submitted to Google, but I can't seem to find the sitemap, any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Cheers,

Jon

[Darren B]

when you say you cant find it ? it should be sitting in the root folder on your web server