Sitemap Update

[BOoBOo]

As of April 11th there was no longer a need to manually submit your sitemap to search engines. Last fall, the major search engines agreed on a sitemaps format. You can now add a simple line to your robots.txt file and let the engines know where your sitemap document resides on your site.

Just include the following line in your robots.txt file and you should be all set:
Sitemap: http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml

Robots.txt has traditionally been used in a more prohibitive fashion - by telling search engine spiders where not to go on your site. This latest sitemaps implementation of robots.txt however is telling the spiders where TO go.

Sitemaps are important and in the long run will help improve your website visibility in search results.

[freelikehell]

i have tried many places to get a sitemap generated for free for my website, but most of them have a restriction of 500 or so pages of coverage and are quite heavy scripts on the net.
could you suggest me a sitemap generator thats free and quick and efficient?

[BOoBOo]

You can try this one - http://www.micro-sys.dk/products/sitemap-generator/

they offer a fully functional 30 day trial. If you really like it you can order it. $39 is pretty cheap for something that you can use for a long time.

you can also try - http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/standalo...generator.html

It's only $14 and it's a lot cheaper compared to Micro-sys A1 sitemap generator. Most scripts come with built in sitemap generator and if they offer one, usually the community members create a sitemap generator for the script. Contact your script provider and if it's a free script, hop over to their community forum and I am sure you will find something on sitemap generator.

[buyingit]

i have got idea to submit RSS field to google
you get only 1error that there is a white space on top - beings PHP - but you will get all pages listed. How about that!

[flickall]

yes that works because i use it for google sitemaps & get only 1error but the content is submitted to them.

quite an easy way to do it but some search engines may not accept .php extension

now that is a PROBLEM

[joseph0829]

hey thanks for that update. i just put that line on my robots.txt. and hoping for a better sitemap target.. hehe,. thanks!