ROR Sitemaps

[onelife]

Hi all,

I don't know much about this xml file but it looks promising. Anyone know which engines are crawling this? What the url limitations are and whether you can use a gzipped version of the file?

Cheers,

Dave

[stymiee]

To tell you the truth there doesn't seem to be much discussion about it being used by users or search engines. I say set one up as it couldn't hurt to do but also don't have high expectations as to what it might do for you.

[Burf.com]

Hi

I acturally run a ror search engine (rorseek.com) and these files do get picked up and indexed by quite a few engines. I have one on burf.com that is one of the most request files.

There are tools on either of the engines to create ror site maps and product feeds

Thanks Simon

[onelife]

Does ROR support sites with more than 5,000 urls? If so do they support .gz files? Otherwise the ror file could be huge.

Cheers,

Dave

[Burf.com]

Hello

I do believe it supports more than 5,000 urls, the downloaded software should do 10K.

I dont think compression has been added but I will email the designer

[onelife]

Cheers Burf,

Most of my sites are 500,000+ pages. Any plans to increase to that size?

[Burf.com]

I have emailed the guy with your questions mate!

[irodgers]

In answer to file sizes - I think you can split your data up into different files - so you have a file for people, products, jobs etc all linked from a sitemap file. Not sure how it works, or IF it works...
It sounded good to me so I had a go myself. I added an ror sitemap and other info to my site www.speyside-developments.co.uk (http://www.speyside-developments.co.uk)
when I first uploaded the site in April 2006. I checked just now (July 2006) on www.rorseek.com - there was nothing there. Yet most other search engines have spidered the site. It sounds like a good idea in theory - or will it just get abused? Instead of keyword stuffing will we get ror stuffing?

[Burf.com]

The rorseek.com engine has been under more development and I will try and get your site indexed asap

There are different types of ror files and you can have multiple

[Burf.com]

Dom from www.rorweb.com (founder of ror) will be adding information about compressing the ror file to the FAQ on the website!

[onelife]

Cheers Burf,

I'll see if Brian Pautsch will add the ROR sitemap export to his sitemap creator. It's the best bit of kit I've used for sitemaps.

Cheers,

Dave

[Burf.com]

Let me know if you want me to add any services to burf or rorseek.com