XML Sitemaps

[gabrielcrowe]

i dont think that its position in the site is important.

its actually possible to manually upload your sitemap, and so its not even important that its there or not. its inly important if you need google to come and get it regularly, using their scheduled downloads.

I have been working on a set of code that builds the sitemap in Actinic, and uploads this file when you upload your catalog. As of yesterday, it supports change frequency and priority, set at the section level, in the actinic interface.

For those people with less rigid structures (different depths to your sections) this really is the only way we could think of. I did try setting the value of priority, relative to the depth of the section, but sometimes that does not work, for example, if you have products directly off a main section, and then a section 4 deep in, with spp products in it. the only choice was to set the priority on a per page basis, yes, more time consuming, but ultimately, more control over what is more important to you.

As the sites show changes, i'll certainly let you all know how we're getting on.

[Runner]

Thanks for the replies.

Sorry John, I must have been looking at your actinic sitemap link.

[GAViN™©]

Have read this post with interest, and saw Jan's post about updating the google sitemap generator plugin.

Can anyone confirm if this has been done yet?

[GAViN™©]

Cheers. Maybe a good idea to upload a sitemap on the website.

Can anyone tell me the template file I need to modify in order to make the sitemap.html file easier on the eye? I find the standard sitemap on the website to look a bit naff.

[Jan]

Have read this post with interest, and saw Jan's post about updating the google sitemap generator plugin.

Can anyone confirm if this has been done yet?

It hasn't been done yet, it's still on the list though.

Regards,

[GAViN™©]

Thanks Jan.

Early next year?

[GAViN™©]

For anyone interested, Jan dropped me an e-mail and informed me this was on a the "to do" list, and since this is something she herself requires for her own site, *might* help push this up to the top of the pile

[Jan]

Hi Chaps,

Just a note to let you know that the changes I have been talking about in here for my free sitemap generator program are now available in beta, the changes are :

Additional information pages are now included in the listing
Priority can be specified for each page
Change frequency can be specified for each page
You can define a list of extra pages to include in the sitemap
A couple of bug fixes
Improved interface for user defined variable selection.

The beta is available here if you would like to try it:

http://www.mole-end.biz/download/ME_...Mash251108.exe

Regards,

[GAViN™©]

Great stuff Jan, will be installing this beta version this morning.

[Pilgrim]

XML sitemaps

Thanks John for your thread, which I first read in September when I looking for xml sitemapping software for one of my sites. I recently made some some changes and notice a drop off in vistitors, so I double check google, and found I had lost links etc etc, and quickly relocated your articale. So thank John, my site back up google, and I gain some extra links to boot!

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[Sean Williams]

Just found this thread - many thanks for sharing this John
It's been a couple of months now - have any of you that have changed your xml sitemaps seen any noticeable changes?

Gabe - do you have an update?

I must say that Pinbrooks idea of stripping out everything but the SPP's and Index sounds appealing.

TIA