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	<title>Comments on: Google XML Sitemaps : Essential&#160;FAQ</title>
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		<title>By: LJDiaz</title>
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		<dc:creator>LJDiaz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What if when I submit my Sitemap and get a Network Unreachable : Robots.txt unreachable or Network Unreachable: Network Unreachable, does that mean that google crawlers will not crawl and index my site anymore??</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What if when I submit my Sitemap and get a Network Unreachable : Robots.txt unreachable or Network Unreachable: Network Unreachable, does that mean that google crawlers will not crawl and index my site anymore??</p>
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		<title>By: Ryan</title>
		<link>http://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-xml-sitemaps-essential-faq/7123/comment-page-1/#comment-1082837</link>
		<dc:creator>Ryan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@jay: A great Dreamweaver extension for generating sitemaps for large static or dynamic sites is  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.justdreamweaver.com/surveyor.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Surveyor&lt;/a&gt;. It not only generates XML sitemaps, but also HTML maps and has automatic search engine submission and sitemap update reminders. Again, it&#039;s just for Dreamweaver users

If you have a small site, try xml-sitemaps.com.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@jay: A great Dreamweaver extension for generating sitemaps for large static or dynamic sites is  <a href="http://www.justdreamweaver.com/surveyor.html" rel="nofollow">Surveyor</a>. It not only generates XML sitemaps, but also HTML maps and has automatic search engine submission and sitemap update reminders. Again, it&#8217;s just for Dreamweaver users</p>
<p>If you have a small site, try xml-sitemaps.com.</p>
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		<title>By: jay paul</title>
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		<dc:creator>jay paul</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Ann: please can you explain me about this Query &quot; How can We create Sitemap.xml file of more than  one Lack links ? &quot;

and how to manage this Sitemap for Dynamic or static sites for  best outout from search engines ?

if you could possible please suggest any tool and explain about the perfect ideas of this issues.

Thanks
Paul</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Ann: please can you explain me about this Query &#8221; How can We create Sitemap.xml file of more than  one Lack links ? &#8221;</p>
<p>and how to manage this Sitemap for Dynamic or static sites for  best outout from search engines ?</p>
<p>if you could possible please suggest any tool and explain about the perfect ideas of this issues.</p>
<p>Thanks<br />
Paul</p>
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		<title>By: Mitch</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mitch</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Right Inge, I too did it more for user experience than SEO... but that&#039;s why Googs is great. If you build it [for users], they [robots] will come.

P.S. I just noticed I misspoke in my previous comment... instead of &quot;boost my chances of picking up supplementals in the SERP listing&quot; it should be referring to picking up breakout link results in the SERP listing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Right Inge, I too did it more for user experience than SEO&#8230; but that&#8217;s why Googs is great. If you build it [for users], they [robots] will come.</p>
<p>P.S. I just noticed I misspoke in my previous comment&#8230; instead of &#8220;boost my chances of picking up supplementals in the SERP listing&#8221; it should be referring to picking up breakout link results in the SERP listing.</p>
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		<title>By: Inge Janse</title>
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		<dc:creator>Inge Janse</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@ Mitch: funny. It sounds like blackhat seo at first, but when done visibly, it should be no problem. 

I have similar experiences with placing a div with links to the most read pages on every page. The linked pages seem to be scanned more often and are given more priority within all results for the website in the serp&#039;s. 

And, as often happens with seo, this result was unintended. I just wanted a quick list of most read pages, so that every visitor could immediately see what the top pages are.  Positive side-effect turns out to be the seo result.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ Mitch: funny. It sounds like blackhat seo at first, but when done visibly, it should be no problem. </p>
<p>I have similar experiences with placing a div with links to the most read pages on every page. The linked pages seem to be scanned more often and are given more priority within all results for the website in the serp&#8217;s. </p>
<p>And, as often happens with seo, this result was unintended. I just wanted a quick list of most read pages, so that every visitor could immediately see what the top pages are.  Positive side-effect turns out to be the seo result.</p>
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		<title>By: Mitch</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mitch</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good stuff Ann.

I&#039;ve used three approaches in regards to sitemaps on websites... strangely enough, I&#039;ve gotten the best results from tactic #3:

1) not bothering to create a sitemap at all

2) toeing the Google line and creating it exactly to their specs

3) creating a manually-updated chunk of helpful links and sticking them in a div on the content pages themselves... and calling it a sitemap


Now I&#039;d say that my results are a function of the kinds of sites I&#039;ve built (regional businesses with fairly small sites), and that this isn&#039;t in any way conclusive evidence for SEOs... but it&#039;s interesting nonetheless.

What I&#039;ve gleaned from this tactic is that it has improved internal link architecture, and also seemed to boost my chances of picking up supplementals in the SERP listing (the technique places links on every content page that have high &quot;user appeal&quot; and validate the business... I&#039;m convinced that Google spiders are trained to enjoy the taste of these things... like &quot;Contact Us&quot;, &quot;Department Information&quot;, &quot;Map &amp; Directions&quot;, etc.)

And from a UI standpoint I&#039;ve always liked this better anyway, as it keeps the user in the content. I&#039;m not a fan of going away from  the content to a sitemap, just for the purpose of getting back to the content again.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good stuff Ann.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve used three approaches in regards to sitemaps on websites&#8230; strangely enough, I&#8217;ve gotten the best results from tactic #3:</p>
<p>1) not bothering to create a sitemap at all</p>
<p>2) toeing the Google line and creating it exactly to their specs</p>
<p>3) creating a manually-updated chunk of helpful links and sticking them in a div on the content pages themselves&#8230; and calling it a sitemap</p>
<p>Now I&#8217;d say that my results are a function of the kinds of sites I&#8217;ve built (regional businesses with fairly small sites), and that this isn&#8217;t in any way conclusive evidence for SEOs&#8230; but it&#8217;s interesting nonetheless.</p>
<p>What I&#8217;ve gleaned from this tactic is that it has improved internal link architecture, and also seemed to boost my chances of picking up supplementals in the SERP listing (the technique places links on every content page that have high &#8220;user appeal&#8221; and validate the business&#8230; I&#8217;m convinced that Google spiders are trained to enjoy the taste of these things&#8230; like &#8220;Contact Us&#8221;, &#8220;Department Information&#8221;, &#8220;Map &amp; Directions&#8221;, etc.)</p>
<p>And from a UI standpoint I&#8217;ve always liked this better anyway, as it keeps the user in the content. I&#8217;m not a fan of going away from  the content to a sitemap, just for the purpose of getting back to the content again.</p>
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		<title>By: JohnMu</title>
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		<dc:creator>JohnMu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nice writeup, Ann!

@john, Blogger automatically submits Sitemap files (they use the RSS feed) through the robots.txt for each blog so don&#039;t have to do that yourself. 

Regarding &quot;Rumor has it, after adding a sitemap to Webmaster Tools, you might see more pages in index but much less traffic.&quot; -- if you believe that rumor (I don&#039;t), you can submit your Sitemap file without using Webmaster Tools, either by listing it in your robots.txt or by using the HTTP &quot;ping&quot; method. However, I really would recommend using Webmaster Tools,  you never know when you&#039;ll need the information provided there (say when your site was hacked ...).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice writeup, Ann!</p>
<p>@john, Blogger automatically submits Sitemap files (they use the RSS feed) through the robots.txt for each blog so don&#8217;t have to do that yourself. </p>
<p>Regarding &#8220;Rumor has it, after adding a sitemap to Webmaster Tools, you might see more pages in index but much less traffic.&#8221; &#8212; if you believe that rumor (I don&#8217;t), you can submit your Sitemap file without using Webmaster Tools, either by listing it in your robots.txt or by using the HTTP &#8220;ping&#8221; method. However, I really would recommend using Webmaster Tools,  you never know when you&#8217;ll need the information provided there (say when your site was hacked &#8230;).</p>
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		<title>By: Marcus</title>
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		<dc:creator>Marcus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have not seen any effect for sites that have or have not got site maps. I have proven that a proper link strategy is better at getting your site listed quicker than using sitemaps.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have not seen any effect for sites that have or have not got site maps. I have proven that a proper link strategy is better at getting your site listed quicker than using sitemaps.</p>
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		<title>By: john</title>
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		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nice Tips and i wonder if blog like blogger.com has their own sitemaps to index the site. Sorry i my Q are too basic. I just try to understand the important of xml site maps.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice Tips and i wonder if blog like blogger.com has their own sitemaps to index the site. Sorry i my Q are too basic. I just try to understand the important of xml site maps.</p>
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		<title>By: skeptic</title>
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		<dc:creator>skeptic</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You do not need any sitemap. What for? Google bots will be the first to find out that you have made a new page. Second: with proper inner linking and with some inbound links google will crawl and index your page. It would not speed up matters at all - same is the case with add url to google.  Let google do things the regular way...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You do not need any sitemap. What for? Google bots will be the first to find out that you have made a new page. Second: with proper inner linking and with some inbound links google will crawl and index your page. It would not speed up matters at all &#8211; same is the case with add url to google.  Let google do things the regular way&#8230;</p>
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