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Submitted by clare on Tue, 2006-12-26 12:16 in

Hi,
As my site is across a few folders I was making google sitemaps for my site from an external program.

The sitemaps that I have generated include pages like findallsorts.com/jump.php?id12345 as links to the product pages of various merchants.

Do you know should I filter out these urls from any sitemap i make as those urls page content arent on my site, or is it ok to leave them in?

Clare
ps
Happy Boxing Day

Submitted by support on Tue, 2006-12-26 19:07

Hello Clare,

Happy Christmas & Boxing Day to you too...

Yes - I would definitely filter the /jump.php URLs as you don't really want Search Engines to consume resources requesting a 302 redirect.

Remember that you can use a sitemap index pointing to another sitemap index; so if you create a "master index" that in turn points to the Price Tapestry generated sitemap in each folder that should do the trick. The auto-generated sitemap index for each site is...

http://www.yoursite.com/folder/sitemap.php

(for the Price Tapestry installation in /folder/)

Cheers,
David.

Submitted by clare on Wed, 2006-12-27 13:01

Ah right,
Yes thanks, I will do that master sitemap pointing to all the others that will save alot of time.

Thanks
Clare