Oracle Dynamic VS Static websites

hampsteadanimalhospital · #1 (**permalink**) 08-03-2006, 04:09 PM

Google requires a sitemap.xml. I have been told that it is not possible to set up such a page in a dynamic website.

What can be done to make google find the site. If I type my name into the google ...

Is it necessary to have doctype on the home page.

Vectorman211 · #2 (**permalink**) 08-03-2006, 04:14 PM

sitemap.xml is not required for google to spider your site. It provides additional features you may be interested in, however. There is not reason why the wouldn't work w/ a dynamic site either.

Here's everything you ever need to know about google sitemaps:

http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=133

**wige** · #3 (**permalink**) 08-03-2006, 06:31 PM

From a development standpoint, doctype can be of benefit, especially if you have a lot of CSS as it forces most browsers into a more standards compliant mode.

As far as getting dynamic pages into a sitemap file, I take it you are looking at a sitemap generator that you install and run on your web server. Most of these programs have two modes that determine how they find the files on your site. The first option is file scan (or something similar), which is a quick and efficient method of indexing static pages on the server by simply scanning the files in the root web directory and subdirectories.

The second option is web crawl. For that option, the program will crawl your site like a search engine spider, using the links in your site to find the pages. This takes longer because the web server has to process each page, and the sitemap program has to process the data rather than just generating a list of files, but it will allow you to create a sitemap of your dynamic pages.

Vectorman211 · #4 (**permalink**) 08-03-2006, 10:35 PM

doctype declaration is imperative IMHO.

Example:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

chadhaajay · #5 (**permalink**) 08-04-2006, 09:42 AM

Hello,

First of all let me clarify a few things to you. You might be either "unaware" or "misguided" by some one about the dynamic generation of google sitemap.

First of all, it is possible to generate Google Sitemap of Dynamic websites whenever you want. We have this feature "Google Sitemap Generator" in our software "PHPKB Knowledge Base Software". If you would like to check its working then you are most welcome to try the online hosted demo version of PHPKB Software.

Article: Google Sitemap Generator for Dynamic Content Resource Websites built using PHPKB
URL: http://www.knowledgebase-script.com/...tion.php?ID=69

Secondly, sitemap is not at all required for your website to be indexed by google or other search engines. It is advised to have a sitemap so that search engines can crawl all the pages of your website specificed in the sitemap file. there are some other benefits as well of using sitemap file but this is not true that without a sitemap, google won't index your website. However since you say that your website has dynamically generated pages so it might not be possible to create sitemap file for each new content. There you need some sitemap generator with which you can create sitemap whenever you want for submission to google, yahoo or other search engines.

Thirdly, It is always advised to have a DOCTYPE declared at the top of every webpage even if it is being generated dynamically.

Example: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

Kind Regards,

Ajay Chadha (Director)
Chadha Software Technologies

ticketauction · #6 (**permalink**) 08-04-2006, 03:09 PM

Does anyone know of a good program or script to create a sitemap for a dynamic driven site with over 50,000+ pages of content that change fairly often?

chadhaajay · #7 (**permalink**) 08-05-2006, 02:12 AM

Hello ticketauction,

I'd suggest you to progra your own sitemap generator module for your dynamic content website. It is not difficult to program such a module. All you have to do is create a script that will query your database for content, create their respective URLs and put them in XML tags required by google sitemaps.

Thats all what is involved....!

Sincerely,

Ajay Chadha (Director)
Chadha Software Technologies

**incrediblehelp** · #8 (**permalink**) 08-08-2006, 04:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ticketauction

Does anyone know of a good program or script to create a sitemap for a dynamic driven site with over 50,000+ pages of content that change fairly often?

More on Google Sitemap Generators from Google themsleves:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/sit...generator.html