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  1. 01-10-2007, 12:16 PM #1
    sub_kovert
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    ror.xml files

    Hi all,

    What is all this about ror.xml files? Is anyone using them yet? From what I can see it is like having a froogle feed in the root of your site that the search engines can read...is this right?

    I never have understood why Froogle doesn't read a dynamically generated xml file from your site rather that you having to upload them manually (why doesn't it work the other way around like a google sitemap?)....anyone explain to me why this is?

    Feed me with your knowledge!
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  2. 01-10-2007, 01:06 PM #2
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    Actually ROR has been around quite a long time.
    Check out Burf.com (broken at the moment) it is a search engine based on ROR. Check out http://www.rorweb.com/ Gives you all the info you could want.
    If you have already created and uploaded an ror.xml to your root directory add <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="ROR" href="ror.xml" /> between your <head> </head> tags. So far only Yahoo has indexed it but it made one helluva difference in my ranking on Yahoo.
    You can use the online tool at http://www.rorweb.com/ Gsitecrawler, my personal favorite creates many different formats of feeds and sitemaps from your PC. Download it free at http://gsitecrawler.com/en/download/ .
    Hope this help, Dan
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  3. 01-10-2007, 01:19 PM #3
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    If you do not have more than 500 pages, check an excellent tool for creating a proper XML site map here: http://www.sitemapdoc.com/
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  4. 01-10-2007, 01:26 PM #4
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    i added it cause my site map maker makes one. Can you tell me how it help your rankings and why?

    it is in my fort worth site
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  5. 01-10-2007, 01:48 PM #5
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    I never have understood why Froogle doesn't read a dynamically generated xml file from your site rather that you having to upload them manually (why doesn't it work the other way around like a google sitemap?)....anyone explain to me why this is?
    thanks for the replies so far....what about this point?
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