Saturday, October 6, 2007

Sitemap problems can kill your money making mission




Well, after having a nice quite month of writing my blog, and while I was enjoying my approved site map, the problem returned.
I use feedburner as my feed reader, and I have been having that problem a month ago.
The same bad announcement - "url not found", but instead of drafting 24 posts, I now have 100 posts, so the drafting option and having them published again does not exist.

The location robots.txt can't offer any help for me, because the site map was dead. Since having no site map was not an option, I realized I should be reading the explanation on types of sitemap which Google allows sending- this is what I saw :

(from Google's webmasters site) While we prefer that you use the Site map protocol so that you can take advantage of the features we built in specifically for communication with search engines, you can add files in several other formats. The simplest of these is a text file that contains a list of URL.
  • OAI-PMH this is an application-independent interoperability framework based on meta data harvesting. Generally, you would use this format only if you already have a site that uses this protocol. You can't use this format for Mobile Site maps. If you use this format for your site, simply add the baseURL of your OAI repository (for instance, http://www.example.com/oaiserver).
  • Syndication feed - Google accepts RSS (Real Simple Syndication) 2.0 and Atom 0.3 feeds. Generally, you would use this format only if your site already has a syndication feed. Note that this method may not let Google know about all the URL in your site, since the feed may only provide information on recent URL .
  • Text file —You can provide Google with a simple text file that contains one URL per line. However, Google recommends that once you have a text site map file for your site, you use the Sitemap generator to create a Site map from this text file using the Site map protocol. You can then edit this file to provide additional information about your URL such as when they were last modified and how often they change."
Because of me not being a webmaster, I had to figure out the solution to the problem, so after hours of searching, I have found the great lebanol blog who came out with a nice elegant solution. For your convenience, here is the location.


Updates:

I now using those sitemaps formats:
  • (BLOGSPOT/BLOGGER/FEEDBURNER)
  • "atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100"
  • "atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=101&max-results=100"
  • "rss.xml?orderby=updated"
Related articles:
How to fix sitemap problems - Blogger
Problems of new blogger

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