Next: Site Maps

User: JT
Date: 11/4/2008 1:37 pm
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You've been able to create a site map using a WebGUI navigation asset for quite a while. We're not talking about the site maps of yesteryear, but rather the XML based site map document that search engines use to know how to better crawl your web site.

Starting with WebGUI 7.6.2 WebGUI automatically creates a siteindex.xml response for you with the pages you've created in your site. This should help those of you struggling with your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tasks, as it's one more thing WebGUI automatically handles for you.

I have no doubt that this will need to be modified as we move forward to accommodate the special needs of some of our users. No doubt they'll want to be able to tweak this and that. But it's a good start on what some consider a "must have" feature.

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Re: Next: Site Maps

User: knowmad
Date: 11/4/2008 2:09 pm

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Automation is cool.

Question: Is this considered a feature of a semantic web site? I'm not up-to-speed on my understanding of what constitutes the semantic web. I grok the general theory but not the application. It seems like this would apply.

Also, is siteindex.xml a common url that the engines look for like the robots.txt file? Or can it be embedded into page headers like an RSS feed?

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Re: Next: Site Maps

User: JT
Date: 11/4/2008 2:35 pm

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> Question: Is this considered a feature of a semantic web site? I'm
> not up-to-speed on my understanding of what constitutes the semantic
> web. I grok the general theory but not the application. It seems
> like this would apply.
>
I don't know that this technically falls under that category, but it
might as well. It's metadata.
> Also, is siteindex.xml a common url that the engines look for like
> the robots.txt file? Or can it be embedded into page headers like an
> RSS feed?
>

Actually I mistyped. It's going to be sitemap.xml. And you typically
submit the sitemap to the various search engines using their "Web
Master Tools".

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Re: Next: Site Maps

User: bernd
Date: 11/4/2008 2:51 pm

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Sounds good. But what is the difference/advantage over creating a sitemap.xml file via the navigation asset? Or is that actually how it is done?

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Re: Next: Site Maps

User: perlDreamer
Date: 11/4/2008 3:10 pm

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The sitemap generator is optimized for generating sitemaps. It will be faster and use less memory than a navigation asset.

Re: Next: Site Maps

User: aewhale
Date: 11/17/2008 9:15 am

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Hmmm, sounds a lot liek the Google Site Map i developed with Graham's help on the SQL.

I have since modified the site map to be able to index more than just Page Layouts. what other assets have you selected for use with the 'included' site map?

When will you include this for the stable release, for those of us running a Production server environment?

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Re: Next: Site Maps

User: JT
Date: 11/17/2008 10:15 am

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> I have since modified the site map to be able to index more than
> just Page Layouts. what other assets have you selected for use with
> the 'included' site map?
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For now just page layouts.
> When will you include this for the stable release, for those of us
> running a Production server environment?
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It's in 7.6, so when 7.6 goes stable in January.

Re: Next: Site Maps

User: patspam
Date: 12/23/2008 10:34 pm

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There's some new info up on the Google Webmaster Central Blog about Google sitemaps. I haven't played with the new siteindex.xml generator in WebGUI so not sure if there's anything new in there worth addressing, but thought it was worth bringing to peoples' attention.

Cheers,

Patrick

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