Sitemaps

// June 4th, 2005 // Uncategorized

Google have released yet another beta, this ones called Sitemaps, it’s basically an xml file on your website which helps google make better use of theirs and your resources when spidering your site. Danny Sullivan has a more indepth review of Sitemaps.

Michael Nguyen has created some php code to generate wordpress Sitemaps dynamically. I’ve now extended this so that the script also generates links to your categories. Here’s my modified wordpress sitemap generator and here is my sitemap generators output.

My additions are added at the bottom of the xml document. At the minute it doesn’t add a last-modified () tag, I suppose I could find out the last modified date of all the posts in the category…

Update:
I’ve now added support for pages and made categories use a trailing slash. Get it from the same location as above.

10 Responses to “Sitemaps”

  1. macewan says:
    04/06/2005 at 05:07

    Google sitemap.xml for WordPress – gzipped with links to categories

    I’ve combined dt’s gzipped version with dsas’s script which generates links to categories to produce this version http://www.macewan.org/sitemap.txthttp://www.macewan.org/sitemap.php is the outputThese are all originating from the soc…

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  2. shupe.ca » Blog Archive » Google Sitemaps for WordPress says:
    04/06/2005 at 05:40

    [...] generate wordpress Sitemaps dynamically which has been updated by Dean Sas to include categories in sitemaps also. Posted in Website News | [...]

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  3. world.of.unknown says:
    04/06/2005 at 17:16

    Google Sitemap for WordPress

    Google Sitemap generator by Dean Sas, which dynamically generated with links to the categories.
    [ read more… ]

    …

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  4. NetSlupp says:
    05/06/2005 at 17:37

    Hi,

    there is also a sitemap generator which acts as a WordPress plugin! Very easy… Still beta, but that’s ok. Link

    NetSlupp

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  5. Tom says:
    06/06/2005 at 14:50

    I’ve been using Google Sitemaps Generator v2 same as NetSlupp, its quite funky.

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  6. joss says:
    06/06/2005 at 17:33

    Do you really want google crawling all over your blog ? Stealing your precious bandwidth? please read this http://www.tamba2.org.uk/T2/archives/2005/06/05/google-still-thieving/
    Check your logs and see how much google and the like sap up your band width :)

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  7. Sas says:
    06/06/2005 at 19:22

    Yeah I do get some traffic coming in from them and I know I’ve helped solve people problems after they’ve searched and found my site.

    Search engines as a whole only sucked 25mb from my site last month and I have about 4 gigabytes of bandwidth allowance.

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  8. joss says:
    06/06/2005 at 20:18

    Its always a trade off isnt it . but like you say 25 mb is not much in the grander scheme of things :) Good luck with it

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  9. Linox.BE » Blog Archive » Google sitemap, but now dynamically! says:
    26/08/2005 at 13:33

    [...] ng to my website Linox.BE. But it’s small change, behind the scene … I went to http://www.deansas.org/archives/2005/06/04/sitemaps/ and downloaded sitemap.php which genera [...]

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  10. SasBlog » 2005 Reviewed says:
    12/11/2006 at 16:04

    [...] Wrote a quick hack for google sitemaps and wordpress [...]

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