Ok, I used your sitemapper tool and have built a nice layout of my website, so how do I submit my to the search engines. Also, I understand there is much more to the tool that will help me discover items that may be holding my site back, please help…
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UPDATE: Support is now provided on this xml sitemap page: http://www.auditmypc.com/free-sitemap-generator.asp – please visit there…
This information is kept for reference only…
Thanks!
What are you trying to do? Create a sitemap for human visitors and all search engines, or just a google sitemap?
What is the site? PM me if you don’t want it posted on the forum.
I am trying to make one for search engines and google. So when people search it brings up one of say 1000 pages off of this site. Not just the index. page, which it has been doing.
Thanks~
I just sent you a private message with the address/access instructions of the new webmaster tool I have running. Use the sitemap generator portion of the tool:
Click on the settings tab and enter your website address, choose any of the options available and then the green arrow (start).
The green arrow will turn grey while processing, then green once it is completed. Then, click on the sitemap tab of the webmaster tool and make any modifications necessary and press export.
In the export menu, choose XML Sitemap, upload that file to your server and then visit Google Webmaster Tools and tell them where you placed that file.
Also, you’ll need to create a Yahoo Sitemap XML file using AUditMyPC.com’s Webmaster Tools (the one I PM’ed you about).
Use Yahoo Sitemap XML files to help the search engines, such as Yahoo, to find all the pages contained within your website.
To create an XML sitemap for Yahoo or any other search engine, simply use our Webmaster Tool, enter your address and export the results to XML format.
To create your Yahoo XML sitemap, simply follow these steps:
1) Create the sitemap as normal using AuditMyPC.com’s Webmaster Tool.
2) Export the XML file and upload it to your website.
4) Visit ht tp: //submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request and enter the address of your Yahoo Sitemap.
Note:
You’ll need a Yahoo account to submit your sitemap (it’s free).
These are some of the errors I am receiving!! HELP
This Sitemap has the following errors:
Errors
Line:
35
URL not allowed
This url is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location. [?] URL:
https://www.siegelofca.com/savings.asp
Line:
38
URL not allowed
This url is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location. [?] URL:
https://www.siegelofca.com/view_sale.asp
Line:
59
URL not allowed
This url is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location. [?] URL:
https://www.siegelofca.com/downloads.asp
Line:
62
URL not allowed
This url is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location. [?] URL:
https://www.siegelofca.com/glossary_results.asp
Line:
65
URL not allowed
This url is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location. [?] URL:
https://www.siegelofca.com/view_reference.asp?rid=8
Line:
229
Parsing error
We were unable to read your Sitemap. It may contain an entry we are unable to recognize. Please validate your Sitemap before resubmitting. [?]
Line:
229
Invalid URL
This is not a valid URL. Please correct it and resubmit. [?] URL:
Parent tag:
Tag:
url
loc
All the urls that had an error are https / secure urls.
Google won’t spider them and you can’t include them in your sitemap as far as I know.
I’m guessing that is what there message indicates.
If you want your website to rank well, move everything that does not need to be secure to http and keep the secure stuff on https.
I do not believe that you can rank well with a https only site.
Once you do that, let me know. You’re site has URL’s that could be reworked to help you rank well!
Nice looking site by the way!
Regards,
Jim.
So if I remove them, or change https to http would that work?
Thanks
My links work.. now this is the message I get with the sitemap
Errors
Line:
229
Parsing error
We were unable to read your Sitemap. It may contain an entry we are unable to recognize. Please validate your Sitemap before resubmitting. [?]
Line:
229
Invalid URL
This is not a valid URL. Please correct it and resubmit. [?]
Yes, removing the http: urls should do the trick, provided you have standard http files.
Send me your sitemap and I’ll tak a look at what you have.
Regards,
Jim.
I sent you a private message with the link to the sitemap…
please tell me you can help me
I ran your site through the new webmaster tool and generated a sitemap. I removed the https and then generated a sitemap, here is how:
Run the tool on your site
Click on sitemap, then sort based on url
Select all the https urls, right click and choose delete (remove).
Then, export to a XML sitemap, HTML sitemap, Google sitemap or other type from the drop down.
I have uploaded a zip for you, but you’ll want to generate this yourself down the road.
Also, I noticed a lot of duplicate title tags and this will hurt your ranking! For example, glossary_alph.asp?alph=I has the title:
Siegel of California – Wholesale Leather and Supplies
but if you make it
Glossary I – Wholesale Leather and Supplies
Or better yet (takes some programming)
Segal Glossary Imitation to Iron
You’ll do better on ranking.
Also, you’re description meta tag should not be the same as other pages, that should be unique as well
siegelofca.com/Newsitemap_google1.xml
Here us the link, but it is saything this "
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below."
Does this make a difference. I believe I did everything else you told me to. Sorry I have so many things they are having me do right now, that my mind is burnt.
Let me know if I need to correct the style information, and then can I register it with google?
Thanks!
What is giving you that message? Your browser? What browser are you using?
No problems on the questions, I understand all too well
Regards,
Jim.
Firefox was giving me that message and now I tried it in IE and it has no error messages.
I am still waiting in the webmaster tools to see if it reads the xml file. It should be ready now, no?
I will let you know in a little while what happens and if I receive any more errors.
I tried it in Firefox as well and did not receive an error.
Let me know what Google kicks back – when I looked at your sitemap, it looked ok to me.
Regards,
Jim.
Ok YAY! My sitemap is working! Here is a question though is it linked to this?
www.siegelofca.com/SiegelofCA_urls2.txt
Those are my urls.
Let me know.
How do I submit this to google now?
When you say it’s working, do you mean that it is showing up in your browser?
Is this the file you want to submit to Google?
Did you save your file out as a Google sitemap? Or text?
Let me know,
Regards,
Jim.
When I say it is working, I mean I used the google webmaster tools and uploaded it to the siegel site, then submitted it to google to test. It says it is ok!
Add a Sitemap
Thank you!
Rate this tool:
View: Sitemaps 1 to 2 of 2
Sitemap Type Sbmitted Last Dwnlded Sitemap Stas URLs submitted
Newsitemap_google1.xml Sitemap Web 19 hrs 17 hrs OK 1118
SiegelofCA_urls2.txt List Web Feb 1, 2007 Feb 5, 2007 OK 4619
Before it would say Errors.. so then I would click on the errors and those errors I have been posting would come up.
I understand, thanks – and glad to hear the sitemap was accepted!
Can you rephrase your last question? I didn’t understand it – it’s been a long day
Regards,
Jim.
Where here are a few questions.
Now that I have this in working order. Thank you btw.
First, now what is the next step in submitting this. Can I submit this form to yahoo as well?
Also my urls.txt file. My sitemap should be pulling from that too, no?
You have a few options.
1) create a xml sitemap (save it out as .xml) and use this to submit to Google and Yahoo. Google will read standard XML like Yahoo does.
2) Create a Google Sitemap (save it out as a Google Sitemap), then Save another out as Yahoo sitemap and submit to each.
Information on submitting to Google can be found at google.com/support/webmas…575&topic=8496
Information on submitting to Yahoo can be found at How to Submit a Yahoo Sitemap
Is my sitemap working?
siegelofca.com/Newsitemap_google1.xml
In your webmaster tools account you’ll see if Google picked up your sitemap or not.
I did a real quick review and it looked fine – but I did notice that you are including default.asp (line 3?) which you really don’t want in there. You can have it, but Google themselves recommends not including that.
Just edit the file and change
siegelofca.com/default.asp
to:
siegelofca.com
and you should be all set.
Regards,
Jim.