Google Site Maps

[LD]

I am looking at submitting a site map to Google. Like many LL, I have an index page with a seperate page for each category. I want Google to crawl all my category pages.

I guess first question is, is a Google site map a means of making this happen?

I am trying to build a site map, and have used a couple of different utilities. It looks to me that in mapping my site, not only are the pages getting mapped, but the links on each page are getting mapped. I guess it's looking at the php and crawling each and every link I have, which is thousands. Is this what I want? Somehow I do not think so, but I see no way of controlling it.

Am I going about this all wrong...or what...?

[HowlingWulf]

I used the utility that Google provides. It spidered all the links that are on the domain but no outgoing links off the domain. The output was in xml I believe.

[LD]

I used the utility that Google provides. It spidered all the links that are on the domain but no outgoing links off the domain. The output was in xml I believe.


Yeah, that's the one that runs on the server as a script, right? I did find a downloadable one that runs locally, and didn't try to map all my links, just the pages the links were on. Did you find the site map helped getting indexed quicker?

[HowlingWulf]

It was my first site map so I don't have anything to compare it to, but it was pretty quick.

[arturobraganza]

I am looking at submitting a site map to Google. Like many LL, I have an index page with a seperate page for each category. I want Google to crawl all my category pages.

I guess first question is, is a Google site map a means of making this happen?

I am trying to build a site map, and have used a couple of different utilities. It looks to me that in mapping my site, not only are the pages getting mapped, but the links on each page are getting mapped. I guess it's looking at the php and crawling each and every link I have, which is thousands. Is this what I want? Somehow I do not think so, but I see no way of controlling it.

Am I going about this all wrong...or what...?

Hmmm, sitemaps are very helpful in site indexing. :D

[Lace]

This is one of the first plugins I install on ALL of my blogs. :) Very helpful