[Web4lib] Sitemap.xml

[Tom Keays]

I haven't used these tools myself, but it seems you first have to
request that Google (who seem to be leading this effort) add your site
to their list.

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/siteoverview

This site goes into it in more detail.

http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

On 3/30/07, VanderHart, Robert <Robert.VanderHart at umassmed.edu> wrote:
> A speaker on SEO at the IA Summit earlier this week stated that it's
> very important to have a sitemap.xml file for your website to indicate
> to spiders how often to visit your site.  I know from reviewing our
> server access logs that spiders should request a robots.txt file before
> indexing a site, and when I grep the logs I see plenty of requests for
> that file.  But when I grep "sitemap.xml", I don't see a single request.
>
>
> So the question is, if a sitemap.xml file is so important, why aren't
> any spiders looking for the file?  I didn't raise the question to the
> speaker because I couldn't view our log files while I was at the Summit,
> so I wasn't certain whether we were getting any requests for sitemap.xml
> or not.
>
> Robert Vander Hart
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Tom