Comments on: Improving SEO with a valid XML Sitemap

By: gebelikte.net

gebelikte.net — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 13:00:50 +0000

thanks for your helps. gebelikte.net

By: rightflat

rightflat — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 13:14:32 +0000

Thank you Very much — helps — its very hard when you start out to building these – i had used a tool but Google denied my sitemap – so going to retry

By: Carpool

Carpool — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:07:41 +0000

Graham,
Thanks for the detailed reply. I will set up the cron job with the python script. By the way I am sure you must be aware that Google has come up with this new version of site-map generator that requires root permission, setting up apace etc but unfortunately for people with shared hosting, that does not help.
keep up the good work :)

By: Graham

Graham — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:26:29 +0000

Most search engines don’t recognise the ? if you force them to parse links with a ? it may harm your page ranking so I advise against it. Just because they don’t appear in your sitemap does not mean they won’t appear in search results. Google builds the XML file to best suit the way they list your pages. Can’t get a much more Google friendly XML sitemap than one created by Google. Bing has taken a slice where Yahoo, Alta Vista etc couldn’t but I still find a good Google listing filters down to a good listing in all major search engines.

By: Carpool

Carpool — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:02:08 +0000

HI, I followed your steps and everything went fine except that my site has a lot of link that look like http://divvymyride.com/trip_details.php?ride_id=123 but the xml file that is created is not finding these links. any clue how to do that? your help is greatly appreciated. thnx

By: Graham

Graham — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:43:59 +0000

Thank-you for your response Divvymyride I’m glad you found it useful.

By: Divvymyride

Divvymyride — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:26:49 +0000

I have a carpool site and i was having such a hard time updating the search engines about newly posted rides. this script helps a lot. thanks a ton for such a detailed explanation
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