Hi David
I have been researchig and looking at the site maps I added to Webmaster tools
http://www.sitename.co.uk/dog-shop/sitemap.php?filename=A+Coombes.csv
"www.example.co.uk" replace with our site name.
Google has picked up the URLs as submitted but not in the index, I wonder if this is due to the message I get when viewing the sitemap URL
Meesage: "This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below."
Do you know if we can change the sitemaaps to be pure XML. Google picked up our blog site map and indexed that straight away; /blog/sitemap.xml
Could it be due to the naming not being .xml and not having style information?
Hope you can help
Regards
Stuart
OK thanks, hopefully they will index them soon and take note of the 301s we did from old shop to new shop URLs.
Cheers again
Stuart
I was wondering if it was worth creating sitemaps for categories?
http://www.sitename.co.uk/site-shop/sitemap?=category/example-category/ (or similar URL)
Is it worth it and do you have any code to do this already?
Cheers
Stuart
Hi Stuart;
The reason the sitemap is filename keyed is because that is the only index that is guaranteed to return all products - mapping by category or brand could exclude products from the map. I wouldn't recommend using a category based map in addition to the normal map as this would end up mapping duplicate URLs...
Cheers,
David.
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Hi Stuart,
The "no style information" is just an informative message displayed when viewing an XML file in a browser that isn't really intended for human viewing - that's all; it doesn't indicate any actual problem with the XML. There is typically some delay between URLs submitted and ultimately being indexed so that shouldn't be anything to worry about.
Cheers,
David.
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PriceTapestry.com