Comments on: Why You Need to Dump that Google Sitemap: Today!

By: xentek

xentek — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:33:51 +0000

So you completely missed the point of the xml sitemaps, which are fast becoming an inter operable standard between search giants.

Its so you can follow the activity of the crawling, throttle it when necessary, and provide you with the last time something got crawled. An HTML sitemap is SEO 101, and was never intended to be replaced by the xml standard.

And an xml sitemap should not be taking you any time. Google’s command line tools work great and can be run on a schedule if you have all static pages. Any content stored in the DB can be looped out to an xml file in about 15 minutes of coding (in the case your CMS doens’t already have a plugin for it).

Basically all this “hope” you speak of in your article is just a bunch of people who didn’t read the docs and passed around opinions and misconceptions as facts. And here you go doing it some more.

But should I expect more from “SEO Skript Kiddie dot com”? Probably not.

By: Really Simple Sitemap | Internet Wealth Master

Really Simple Sitemap | Internet Wealth Master — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:16:59 +0000

[...] Really Simple Sitemap is my first go at creating a plugin for Wordpress. It was inspired by these 2 useful posts by SEO Blackhat and WageRank. [...]

By: rose.water

rose.water — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 22:46:59 +0000

It’s also probably good for checking bad links and missing images.

By: rose.water

rose.water — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 22:46:10 +0000

This is purely for the purpose of google’s benefit, saving bandwidth, fresher content etc… it’s not at all for people.

By: dfischer

dfischer — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:59:52 +0000

The thing is, I am doing that. But I get a blank page with a ?> in the content area.

By: QuadsZilla

QuadsZilla — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:42:56 +0000

http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_an_Archive_Index

By: dfischer

dfischer — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 23:56:12 +0000

How do I link to my archives.php file? If I just create a “page” with the “archives template name” I get a page but it’s content isn’t there. I just see ?> at the end.

By: Creating Sitemaps In WordPress - TheVanBlog

Creating Sitemaps In WordPress - TheVanBlog — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 03:52:13 +0000

[...] As always credit where credit is due. I learned about this technique from Quadzilla at SEO Blackhat through his post Why You Need to Dump that Google Sitemap: Today!. The technique itself is built into the WordPress application through one of the many template_tags you can use. In this case the wp_get_archives tag. There’s also a get_archives tag that offers similar functionality and differs only in the way parameters are passed to the function. [...]

By: joebanner

joebanner — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:06:12 +0000

I took derekhail’s advice and tried the Dagon Design’s sitemap generator and it kicks major ass. It is full featured and can be configured many, many different ways. Excellent recommendation.

By: goatix

goatix — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 20:06:54 +0000

@ QuadsZilla

For tagging and organizing articles is the Wordpress Plugin “Jeromes Keyword Manager” my first choice – it works together with JeromeÂ´s Keywords.

Hope the plugin will help saving some time