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[phj]

I apologise if this question has been dealt with previously although I haven't been able to find the answer on the forum. I've downloaded the trial version of Sitemap Automator because the descriptions seem to be exactly what I need. Indeed, the interface is very slick and it seems to work exactly as expected - with one major problem. I have an iWeb blog published to MobileMe. I would like to create a sitemap that includes the links to all the new blog entries that I publish (including the archived pages). However, when I create a sitemap using Sitemap Automator, the links to blog entries are not pickup up. Is this an issue with the way iWeb generates blog pages (Javascript???) or am I missing something more fundamental? Would this issue be resolve with the full version of Sitemap Automator? Can the links to blog pages be added manually? Even if that is a possibility, would Google search engines even be able to recognise the content of the page?
Apologies for the barrage of questions...still trying to get my head around this.
Thanks in advance for any advice.

[RageSW]

I apologise if this question has been dealt with previously although I haven't been able to find the answer on the forum. I've downloaded the trial version of Sitemap Automator because the descriptions seem to be exactly what I need. Indeed, the interface is very slick and it seems to work exactly as expected - with one major problem. I have an iWeb blog published to MobileMe. I would like to create a sitemap that includes the links to all the new blog entries that I publish (including the archived pages). However, when I create a sitemap using Sitemap Automator, the links to blog entries are not pickup up. Is this an issue with the way iWeb generates blog pages (Javascript???) or am I missing something more fundamental? Would this issue be resolve with the full version of Sitemap Automator? Can the links to blog pages be added manually? Even if that is a possibility, would Google search engines even be able to recognise the content of the page?
Apologies for the barrage of questions...still trying to get my head around this.
Thanks in advance for any advice.

We add the RSS feed of iWeb blogs to your XML Sitemap file which Google then scans and indexes. We do not add all pages individually as it is not needed.

You can add the pages individually, but you do not have to.

[TommyG]

I apologise if this question has been dealt with previously although I haven't been able to find the answer on the forum. I've downloaded the trial version of Sitemap Automator because the descriptions seem to be exactly what I need. Indeed, the interface is very slick and it seems to work exactly as expected - with one major problem. I have an iWeb blog published to MobileMe. I would like to create a sitemap that includes the links to all the new blog entries that I publish (including the archived pages). However, when I create a sitemap using Sitemap Automator, the links to blog entries are not pickup up. Is this an issue with the way iWeb generates blog pages (Javascript???) or am I missing something more fundamental? Would this issue be resolve with the full version of Sitemap Automator? Can the links to blog pages be added manually? Even if that is a possibility, would Google search engines even be able to recognise the content of the page?
Apologies for the barrage of questions...still trying to get my head around this.
Thanks in advance for any advice.

We add the RSS feed of iWeb blogs to your XML Sitemap file which Google then scans and indexes. We do not add all pages individually as it is not needed.

You can add the pages individually, but you do not have to.

I'm having a related problem. My home page is actually a blog type (not using MobileMe) that I really use to be able to quickly and easily add updates articles to this home page. I have other blog type pages that are subject-matter specific that are linked to by the navigation bar.

I see the Home page RSS.xml but none of the other blog-type pages show up when the site is scanned. Does iWeb navigation bar not scan properly. I've had to manually add all those pages to SiteMap automator which, obviously, defeats the purpose of using it.