Google / Yahoo Sitemap Generator Script

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mneylon

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Can anyone recommend a perl or php script for generating sitemaps compatible with Google and Yahoo?
 
Forbairt

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cheers for that I'm always meaning to write my own :) I tend to use the xml-sitemap generator site most of the time.

how would it handle something like your dvds site though ?

:eek: :D
 
Forbairt

Forbairt

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I'd assume it'd time out :D

Is it set up with a cron job and writes to file or is it real time generated ? (if so for my uses it'll be getting hacked) (maybe I should just read the instructions)
 
mneylon

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It seems to do it in realtime. I don't see how that would mean it is being hacked - badly thought out maybe
 
Forbairt

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sorry ... I should have said ... I'll be hacking it to write to files with a cron job :)

(I'll be hacking it to write to file)
 
paul

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Handy script.

I've found that it takes a little bit of time for your sitemap to get noticed, i.e. G will download it, but it will take a bit of time (1/2 months) before they start showing as indexed on the console. Or maybe that's just my experience.
 
Forbairt

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its been a day + for me ... I think I'll test with a new site shortly though :eek:
 
paul

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hmmm maybe it's the sheer number of pages I have then ...
 
Forbairt

Forbairt

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That could be it ... the few sites I have would range from 10 - 400 urls so nothing that major
 
paul

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Just almost at the 5k mark of 88k pages now. Interesting to see the traffic grow on such a large site like this.
 
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RedCardinal

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paul said:
Just almost at the 5k mark of 88k pages now. Interesting to see the traffic grow on such a large site like this.
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Problem is big sites need lots of pagerank to get well indexed. While it might tell you you've got 5k pages indexed, it doesn't tell you where. So you tend to find most pages in supplemental index where they dont have much chance to pull in organic traffic. Interested to hear how long they take though to index you.

Sure if you have any problems you could always ask nicely to use the Rapid Inclusion System recently developed by a crack team of Irish devs...
 
paul

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RedCardinal said:
Problem is big sites need lots of pagerank to get well indexed. While it might tell you you've got 5k pages indexed, it doesn't tell you where. So you tend to find most pages in supplemental index where they dont have much chance to pull in organic traffic. Interested to hear how long they take though to index you.
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I am currently doing this as one of my on going experiments. To see how, using sitemaps, a good hierarchy, breadcrumbs and all that lark, that I can squeeze some more pages in to the index. It doesn't have any strong links, I think their is only one or two PR2s.
RedCardinal said:
Sure if you have any problems you could always ask nicely to use the Rapid Inclusion System recently developed by a crack team of Irish devs...
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for the next experiment I will make sure I will do that ;)
 
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