Sitemaps

Does PR matter with the no. of pages being indexed? The following: http://www.searchengineengine.com/
shows my real PR at 4. I have added my site to some directories too. I am targetting for a higher PR. And I do have a links system:

http://www.pottersrealm.com/links.html

Does it matter to whom I link too? or only who links me?

Edit: just a question, could it be that since other high PR sites have similar content to my site, that my site is getting penalised? I did a search via Copyscape.com and found quite an overwhelming number of matches!

Copyscape does not show up only similar content but more like theft content then its a possibility but this latest Bourbon update by Google is unknown. If you search for "Potters Realm Harry Potter!" you will not be number one unless you remove the Google penilisation filter and it then shows you number one. Have your stats fallen this month (or from the 24th last month?)

If yes to both then:

1. Remove dupe content
2. Get a few more inbound links from other potter sites.

We are going way offtopic here... start a new post or PM if needed.

Of course they're going to be good. They allow you to easily say to Google "Hey, these pages exist on my site".

Even if they're several links deep into your content, you can tell Google that they are around on your site and available for public viewing.

You'll be able to get a lot more of your pages into Google's indexing queue much quicker than natural crawl (at least, that's the theory).

It doesn't replace natural crawl, it's a compliment to it.

I use it on some of my sites.

Thats right... but you have to make it in xml form to be able to add it in your google site map.. Its good, like what he says.. google can easily crawl all your pages..

For http://www.split-media.com

How would I get this "xml" what information needs to be on it? I didn't understand it very well, and I signed up with this google sitemap.. Not really understanding what was involved in it.. Any comments/suggestions?

I have just completd my XML sitemap and submitted it to Google (not really, they are so busy I have to try in a few moments).

I did not, however, do it the way they perscribed (Using Python and all that), I just googled some things and found this website:

http://www.auditmypc.com/free-sitemap-generator.asp#sitemap-generator-updates

which does exactly the same thing except you don't need Python, all you need is a Java enabled browser.

It can take a while to change all the setting if you want to customise each page i.e. priority, modification occurance...

I just wanted to know how many others have done this and if we get any additional benefits!!!???

I wrote my own Google Sitemaps generators for my sites, and for several popular PHP based scripts.

Submitted, and traffic has increased to those sites beyond their normal expected growth.

Axe provided me with his script for phpBB forums, and it is working for me as well. His version is available on various download sites.

Here's one of them
http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/50901.html

I came accros this site and it has a nice free tool for generating a google sitemap that you can submit.

You should check it out

http://www.vigos.com/products/gsitemap/

Note:
Microsoft .NET Framework is required to use Gsitemap!

no manual, no FAQ, no other documentation (don't know how that helps beginners, heh).

I'll stick to writing my own. If you've got enough pages that you can really justify having a sitemap, I think a remote piece of software, or remote script like that would just put too much of a load on the server loading all the URLs on the site.

http://www.sitemapbuilder.net/default.aspx

That's gotta be the easiest for beginners or anyone really. You can tell it to analyze your server - or just copy and paste a link list form a word doc (I keep a text file I add every new link to myself) and it spits out an .xml file.

Super easy.

Hi
I'm using a sitemap.xml file (submitted to Google sitemaps)
for my new site www.celebritiescentral.net
a week ago now, but still my page does not appear in its index

Any experiences with sitemaps ?

Thanks

The sitemaps file just gets your URLs in Google's database faster, it doesn't make them take any less time to actually view your pages. They'll put your URLs in their spider queues, and if they come across backlinks, etc. they'll bump URLs up the queue and go from there...

So, it still takes as long as conventional ways to START getting indexed, although with Sitemaps, once it does start getting indexed, it'll ALL start getting indexed, so it's much faster overall, especially once Google's caught up and you're just adding new content.

Google give some good links to both downloadable and online site map generators.
http://code.google.com/sm_thirdparty.html

I'm using GsiteCrawler right now. It does what I need and it's pretty stable for a beta.

I've just tried GsiteCrawler based on your recommendation, and I must say, I'm very impressed with it. I'd certainly recommend it.

Dan