5 replies to this topic

[Paul Reading]

Now that MSN and Yahoo are starting to recognise Googlesitemaps is it still necessary to have a sitemap.html file on the homepage of your site? If so is it possible to add this as an output option in a futer version of Sitemap Automator?

[RageSW]

Hi Paul,

It is still a good idea to have one. We are planning on adding this feature to a future version.

[ceberlin]

Hi,
is there any news on this topic? You advise yourself in the manual that html sitemaps are needed. Wouldn't it be useful to be able to create one alongside with the xml version?

Right now I am playing with some ajax to import the xml-sitemap into an html sitemap page but since there is no information about the page titles stored in the xml, the results look so ugly. (by the way: can the missing page title information be added to the xml and still make it valid for Google?)

Cheers, Carl

[RageSW]

HI,

No you can't add a title tags to an XML Sitemap.

And HTML sitemap needs to be formatted correctly for human readers so it should be done manually while only including your important pages (no more than 100 links). But we may add this functionality soon to Sitemap Automator.

[morean]

its better to have one this could help you in some what

[Greta57]

It is not really needed, but might be useful for users as well as search engines. In our experience Google will find many also more or less hidden pages and recently seems to deal with parameters very well. We also use the canonical and that also seems to work very well. Sitemaps may help Google index your site faster though.