[Web4lib] Sitemap.xml

Roy Tennant roy.tennant at ucop.edu
Fri Mar 30 13:33:44 EDT 2007


On 3/30/07 9:54 AM, "Marshall Breeding" <marshall.breeding at vanderbilt.edu>
wrote:

> The use of XML sitemaps is especially needed for sites that have
> several thousand web pages, like our Vanderbilt Television News
> Archive site that includes over 850,000 pages we want indexed by
> Google.

It's also essential for database-driven sites, where a web crawler cannot
possibly intuit all the search strings required to fetch all the content
from a database. I've used Google sitemaps for quite a while for this
purpose.
Roy



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