Talk:Sitemaps

message: merlinvicki, took the signature off, needed on Talk pages but not article pages
Jwestbrook 22:51, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: oops
J\/\/estbrook       18:16, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  A previously unlabeled conversation 

message: Does anyone know the exact date that the links tab became active in Google sitemaps? Siralexf 17:15, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Addition of links tab 

message: I've noticed that in the last few months, some site listed in google results include sublinks. For example, this search for slashdot returns a link to the main slashdot site along with links to Games - Login - Apple - Science beneath the description. Is this one of the benefits of submitting a site map to google? If so, it would be worth mentioning in the article. mennonot 09:39, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Not related, Matt Cutt explained it was Google search results improvement:   Ivan Bajlo 15:09, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multiple links provided with Google result 

message: Does Mediawiki has an extension that creats a Google Sitemaps auytomaticaly?
Or is it is built with integrated sitemap? F16
:Yes there is a script to make sitemaps in your wiki's /maintenance directory. Jidanni (talk) 04:25, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wiki Sitemaps?! 

message: The text both at sitemaps.org and here says:
"The <sitemap_location> should be the complete URL to the Sitemap, ..."
Note that "should" is not "must," and as other directives (namely, "Disallow:") use relative URLs, not absolute ones, the language used in the definition of the declaration implies that a relative URL for a site map declaration (only in the "/robots.txt" file) is valid and may be used.  If the intent of the definition were to require only fully specified URLs, the language used to specify the declaration syntax needs to be changed.  I have noted that some people think that only a fully specified URL can be used in "robots.txt" for a site map declaration; such a conclusion appears erroneous based on the diction used.
I assume that verbs such as "should, must and may" have their usual meanings as in the popular Internet "request for comments" document series.
- D. Stussy, Los Angeles, CA, USA - 
08:30, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Of course you can put it in there that way. It won't break robots.txt. However: I want sitemap-aware bots to figure out where my sitemap is, so I'll give them what they're expecting: a full URL. 198.49.180.40 19:17, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Robots.txt "Sitemap:" declaration. 

message: www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap= or http://google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap= ?
See http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34609  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.119.120.23 (talk) 13:10, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Submit site map URL 

message: I forgot to log in when I added those external links, they contain the "official" method by that said search engine to submit a valid XML sitemap. Neither of the pages attempt to sell a product and keep the valid neutral point of view. Please comment here on any change suggestions.
This can help clean up the article with all the how-to information and allow an external neutral point of view apply any official how to methods for that said search engine supporting the sitemaps feature.
SDSandecki (talk) 06:21, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Submission Sitemap Externals 

message: Mention that sitemaps can also be in plain text format: sitemap.txt,
and sitemap.txt.gz. See the Google webmaster tips if you don't believe me. Jidanni (talk) 04:27, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plain text OK too 

message: The two article apparently are speaking of the same thing. But there are some confusion about what sitemap is. Quote of the sitemaps.org (the protocol site): 
"Sitemap protocol format consists of XML tags"
For me, sitemap = sitemaps. Maybe we shoud disambiguate "sitemap" as architecture and as protocol. Acaciz (talk) 14:29, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Sitemap and sitemaps

message: I read the page today and did not see any how-to content.  I think it is time to remove the {howto|article} warning template.  I am going to put a message on Ddxc's talk page (s/he was the originator of the how-to template's use).  The template has been there since 23 December 2007.
BrotherE (talk) 19:11, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: To be honest, ** there is ** how to, the article duplicates the tutorial on sitemaps.org. It this part is removed as it must be, very few content will remain. I still think that it must be merged with Sitemap. Macaldo (talk) 11:44, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can we remove the "how-to" warning? 

message: XML Sitemaps used to direct Search engine parsing, and Site Maps that help in user navigation/ architecture
Neither of the pages attempt to sell a product and keep the valid neutral point of view. Please comment here on any change suggestions.
This can help clean up the article with all the how-to information and allow an external neutral point of view apply any official how to methods for that said search engine supporting the sitemaps feature.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by DShantz (talk • contribs) 00:50, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sitemap term has Two meanings 

message: "As the Sitemap needs to be in the same directory as the URLs listed".
This is wrong.  It needs to be at the level of or above the URLs listed.
http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html#location gives more detail and also explains how robots.txt
can grant permission for foo.com's sitemap to be hosted on bar.com but it doesn't
make clear how that affects the path part of the URL nor whether this permission
passes down through sitemapindexes to other sitemaps.
-- Ralph Corderoy (talk) 18:37, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sitemap location statement is wrong and spec is unclear 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

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