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Title: Sitemap creation
Post by: Noedelhap on April 17, 2013, 12:23

I was wondering about a sitemap for my webshop. Is it necessary to submit one to Google or other search engines? Would it help with getting indexed properly, and if so, what pages should I include or exclude?

I already have a simple sitemap for my normal website (illustration portfolio) but if I generate a new XML sitemap (for my webshop), it gets stuffed with all kinds of urls.

Title: Re: Sitemap creation
Post by: cascoly on April 17, 2013, 18:14

sitemaps do make a difference in getting your site indexed by google - don't worry about the extraneous urls -- google will just not index them

Title: Re: Sitemap creation
Post by: Noedelhap on April 17, 2013, 18:17

Thanks.

I did remove all unnecessary urls and items, now I have a clean xml file :)

Title: Re: Sitemap creation
Post by: THP Creative on April 17, 2013, 20:24

yep, submit one for sure. Will speed up indexing and help google 'find' the pages on your site.

Title: Re: Sitemap creation
Post by: jareso on April 18, 2013, 02:14

I always include all URLs in my sitemaps that my website's system generates and I leave it up to search engine to decide whether it will include them in it's index or not. But be sure to set proper "priority" and "changefreq" in your sitemaps.

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<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.9</priority>

Such as set high "priority" (eg.: 1.0) for those pages of your website that are important for you, such large image preview pages, and set low "priority" (eg.: 0.1) for just some miscellaneous search results, etc.