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    Sitemaps and Robots

    We have just launched our website www.stollerlawnandgarden.com from our computer about 2 weeks ago, And I am trying to make sure that search engines are finding it. I set up an account with Google Webmaster Tools, and set up a site map with them but I keep getting error messages(Unsupported file format, General HTTP error: 404 not found, etc). How do I create a sitemap.txt and Robots.txt file and make it work? I have read all of Googles files for creating a site map but it still don't work. I also set up a Analytics account with them and everything works with it except the keywords feature. (That is why I don't think the search engines are finding my wesite). Are there globle settings in A5V8 that I can set up for sitemaps and robots? I'm new at working with websites so I don't know much about them, Thanks

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    Re: Sitemaps and Robots

    Google, MSN and Yahoo (probably others) wants an XML type sitemap. Looks like this: http://wt.alphatogohost.com/sitemap.xml. Others accept a text based sitemap that is just each full URL, one per line. The sitemap file (xml or txt) go in the root folder of your website in addition to being submitted (not sure if that is requried if you also submit them). The XML file contains more than just the page URL.

    I'm told that Google does not index your website until it is six months old to weed out fakes. But I also have seen my web pages the day after they were created, so I don't think that's true.

    A Sitemap on your website for public viewing is a completely different file and looks like this: http://wt.alphatogohost.com/sitemap.a5w.

    I have a sitemap setup page in my apps that looks like the attachment. It creates three file types.

    robots.txt is just a plain text file that sits in your website's root folder. You don't submit them to any search engine. You can get more info on contents at http://www.robotstxt.org.

    There is nothing built in to Alpha to generate or maintain sitemaps, that's why I built my Sitemap component.

    By the way, it is interesting to read up on Sitemap files. They can include dynamic URLs with parameters that will lead to particular pages that one would normally not find just browsing the site. E.g., if you have products for sale and the product descriptions are in your database, you can include an URL in your sitemap file such as myproducts.a5w?page=1, myproducts.a5w?page=2, etc. (or whatever the parameters are to bring up each page). Unless you provide these dynamic URL's, no search engine will ever find those pages.
    Steve Wood
    See my profile on IADN

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