Creating a site map for the first...

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Spinny wrote:
The way I figure it, Google's ambition is no less than making a map of the entire Internet ...

It looks that way.

Google's signature should actually be: :"Google Bwah ha ha ha"
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Spinny wrote:
Actually, I put links to the sitemap on the handicapped-accessible nav section of every top-level page in my sites, and have never had any difficulties with the sites' indexing. If you're concerned about it, the easiest way to keep 'bots off the sitemap.html page is to have these lines in your robots.txt file:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /sitemap.html


That keeps you from having to make any mods to your actual site pages.


You don't want to be putting a 'Disallow' for sitemap.html in your robots.txt file.

What you should be adding to the robots.txt file is this line at the end, it is the path to the .xml file:-



The major search now recognise this line and is helpful if you have not submitted your map to Google Webmaster Tools or othe SE's/
Jim
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I actually have both. :cool:
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Jim Cantrell wrote:
You don't want to be putting a 'Disallow' for sitemap.html in your robots.txt file.

Why is that?
Does having a path to the .xml file mean that the bot will sidestep the .html file?
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Spinny wrote:
The way I figure it, Google's ambition is no less than making a map of the entire Internet.


Not just Google, but the Library of Congress. But the Library of Congress isn't stopping there, they want to archive every dadburn tweet as well!

Library of Congress Will Save Tweets
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Lowell Ziegler wrote:
Not just Google, but the Library of Congress. But the Library of Congress isn't stopping there, they want to archive every dadburn tweet as well!

Library of Congress Will Save Tweets

Seems like the Library of Congress is run by a bunch of twits these days...

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