RE: Sitemapper 5.1 Now Available!

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Wonderful updates Scott. :D
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Thanks Scott,

Question though, I just ran a sitemap and it picked up a ton of links that I don't think are actually outright links? Not sure how this works with Wordpress, but it's picking up a ton of things that I don't think are real pages? Not sure how to explain them other than to say it's picking up things like this:

http://accessoriesoftheworld.com/blog/t … ters/page/

Lots of links with the /page/ in the end of the link and none of them are good, they all do 404 errors as I don't think they are actual pages but are just the locations of the pages in the Wordpress. I don't know the right terms here to call things in Wordpress yet lol. Anyways there are lots of these type links it picked up which I'm going through and removing them right now, but not sure if this is what it is supposed to do or not so let me know.

It's also doing the shop pages that are no longer shop pages, but I think that was something that Shopping Cart Creator needs to clean up which if I recall was something coming in an updated version. Removing those manually too.
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Regarding Jo Ann's concern about it picking up things that used to be there and are now not. It is doing the same thing to me on my regular website. I just updated the whole site and the sitemap keeps coming up with the old websites information even though i completely deleted the old site.
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Eric English wrote:
Regarding Jo Ann's concern about it picking up things that used to be there and are now not. It is doing the same thing to me on my regular website. I just updated the whole site and the sitemap keeps coming up with the old websites information even though i completely deleted the old site.

Look at your sitemap and backtrack the links. For the page to be listed in Sitemapper, it must have found a link to one of these pages someplace on your Website.
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Jo Ann wrote:
Thanks Scott,

Question though, I just ran a sitemap and it picked up a ton of links that I don't think are actually outright links? Not sure how this works with Wordpress, but it's picking up a ton of things that I don't think are real pages? Not sure how to explain them other than to say it's picking up things like this:

http://accessoriesoftheworld.com/blog/t … ters/page/

Lots of links with the /page/ in the end of the link and none of them are good, they all do 404 errors as I don't think they are actual pages but are just the locations of the pages in the Wordpress. I don't know the right terms here to call things in Wordpress yet lol. Anyways there are lots of these type links it picked up which I'm going through and removing them right now, but not sure if this is what it is supposed to do or not so let me know.

It's also doing the shop pages that are no longer shop pages, but I think that was something that Shopping Cart Creator needs to clean up which if I recall was something coming in an updated version. Removing those manually too.

If you do a view source on some of those pages, you will see a link to the /page folder

http://accessoriesoftheworld.com/blog/t … wsletters/

<span class="previous-entries"><a href="http://accessoriesoftheworld.com/blog/topics/category/newsletters/page/2/" >Older Entries</a></span>
There must be a link to just /page in one of those older areas on on some other page. I know WordPress adds just a ton of links to things.

What you could do is just add an exclusion for that page only and it will not appear on the sitemap.


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Thanks Scott, will go through my directory again and also rebuild my sitemap after all old content is deleted.
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I think the problem is if I do an exclusion for that page, it won't do subitems either then will it? Some of these "page" links have child links in them. I don't want the actual link to the "page" link in there but the child links need to be counted. How do I do that?
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Jo Ann wrote:
I think the problem is if I do an exclusion for that page, it won't do subitems either then will it? Some of these "page" links have child links in them. I don't want the actual link to the "page" link in there but the child links need to be counted. How do I do that?

Ah, correct. Yes you can't exclude that if it has child links.

So WordPress is supposed to make life easier right? :)
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Scott, have a related question. If you go to my blog site here:

http://www.spinland.biz/blog.html

The blog is brought in via iframe. No harm, no foul, it's invisible to crawlers; I get that. But I included a direct text link to the actual Wordpress blog URL below that, and still Site Mapper isn't traversing that link to find the blog, itself.

Do you have any idea what's making the text link invisible to Site Mapper? If you figure it out I promise to take back my "cyborg" crack. :cool:

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Spinny wrote:
Scott, have a related question. If you go to my blog site here:

http://www.spinland.biz/blog.html

The blog is brought in via iframe. No harm, no foul, it's invisible to crawlers; I get that. But I included a direct text link to the actual Wordpress blog URL below that, and still Site Mapper isn't traversing that link to find the blog, itself.

Do you have any idea what's making the text link invisible to Site Mapper? If you figure it out I promise to take back my "cyborg" crack. :cool:

Thanks!

The problem is that link is still inside of the iframe area. You would need to move that link out of the iframe. You can even be sneaky about it and make the text same color as your Website background color.
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