Google SiteMap... anyone???

J-Spider · #1 (**permalink**) 06-13-2005, 10:25 AM

Hi,

I'm looking over the google sitemap protocol and it seems unnecessarily complicated.

1st you have to learn a dialect of XML, then you need to compress your sitemap file using gzip, then you make sure your encodeing in UTF-8 encoding, etc, etc...

They have a generator that will produce the site maps but you need to have python v2.2 installed on your server.

Has anyone figured out a tool to easily create these things or an easy way to explain how to create them?

greeneagle · #2 (**permalink**) 06-13-2005, 11:28 AM

J-Spider,

Let me refer you and subsequent visitors here:
http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=46621

Ken

LinkBump.com · #3 (**permalink**) 06-13-2005, 11:32 AM

Just create the file yourself. If you have a database-driven site, you can create the file with PHP. At the top of your code put the line:

Code:

header('Content-type: text/xml', true);

You don't need to compress the file, it's optional. Anyway, I've created Google sitemaps for 5 sites and seen absolutely no increase in traffic so it might not even be worth it.