Your Google Sitemap

[larthestar]

Re: Your Google Sitemap

i cannot get ror to list any of my url's except my homepage.
thanks,
larry

[Karen Ringrose]

Re: Your Google Sitemap

Hey Brad or if anyone can help me out here Please !!
I have just been trying to download ROR,but cannot open. The message reads invalid archive ?????? I have tried 3 or 4 times but with no success !

[samcris]

Re: Your Google Sitemap

Hi Its Sam here
ID 12237
I just downloaded rorgen10 installed it, uploaded it in the public_html directory from blue ftp,inserted a ror info button with a hyperlink in my home page.and then published it as well!
but when i prewiew it and tried to click the ror info button it says
page not found??
can anybody have a look and let me know or fix it please?

http://www.gamesconsolesonline.com/ror.xml

thanks, sam

[samcris]

Re: Your Google Sitemap

Hi its sam here,
i did exactly what is told here but still when i click on the ror info button

it comes up the page not found??

http://www.gamesconsolesonline.com/ror.xml

please can someone help me to fix it?

thanks
id 12237

[pristinelife]

Re: Your Google Sitemap

I just came across a very cool little piece of software called "ROR".
ROR will create a sitemap for your website. A sitemap makes it easier
for Google and Yahoo to index your site. If you plan on making it
online. You Need To Have a Sitemap!




Click Here to download ROR. It's Free!

1) Download ROR to your desktop
2) Unzip and install ROR
3) Where it says Site URL enter your domain name...Our Domain name is www.vodahost.com whats yours?
4) Click "generate sitemap"
5) when the site map is done, click "save as"
6) save it to your desk top as ror
7) upload it to your public_html folder using blueFTP. If you do not know how to do this, click the below link for a tutorial on the topic

http://www.vodahost.com/DemoDemo/ftpsyms/custom_bluevoda_blueftp.htm

Create a hyperlink from your home page to the xml file. Our homepage hyperlink looks link this http://www.vodahost.com/ror.xml

If you have any questions about ROR or require help with your Sitemap.
Please feel free to ask for help here in this forum. Please DO NOT open
a support ticket for help with ROR. You will be sent back here.

How do I do that so that it shows on my homepage will show http://www.ourjourneytolife.com/ror.xml Do I upload the file ror.xml? Thanks in advance

[pristinelife]

Re: Your Google Sitemap

David? (or anybody) I followed your instructions to the letter, but now my site's messed up. Please take a look at it and tell me what I did wrong and how to fix it. http://[URL="http://www.ourjourneytolife.com"]www.ourjourneytolife.com[/URL] This is my first attempt at creating a webpage so please explain as simply as possible so I can understand the html language. Thanks in advance.

I just came across a very cool little piece of software called "ROR".
ROR will create a sitemap for your website. A sitemap makes it easier
for Google and Yahoo to index your site. If you plan on making it
online. You Need To Have a Sitemap!




Click Here to download ROR. It's Free!

1) Download ROR to your desktop
2) Unzip and install ROR
3) Where it says Site URL enter your domain name...Our Domain name is www.vodahost.com whats yours?
4) Click "generate sitemap"
5) when the site map is done, click "save as"
6) save it to your desk top as ror
7) upload it to your public_html folder using blueFTP. If you do not know how to do this, click the below link for a tutorial on the topic

http://www.vodahost.com/DemoDemo/ftpsyms/custom_bluevoda_blueftp.htm

Create a hyperlink from your home page to the xml file. Our homepage hyperlink looks link this http://www.vodahost.com/ror.xml

If you have any questions about ROR or require help with your Sitemap.
Please feel free to ask for help here in this forum. Please DO NOT open
a support ticket for help with ROR. You will be sent back here.

[pristinelife]

Re: Your Google Sitemap

Would you please check my site NavalDesign? I've uploaded my sitemap but seem to be having a challenge viewing it on my site on the internet. I must have missed something. Thanks in advance NavalDesign, I appreciate you.

Can't see anything wrong with your homepage code. it's clear. Maybe you have fixed it in the meantime ?

However, seems like the "ror.xml" file is not uploaded on your site. You need to get the file (or code, depends on what option you have selected when you created your sitemap) and upload it in your "public_html".

[Karen Mac]

Re: Your Google Sitemap

Your map is here

http://www.ourjourneytolife.com/sitemap.xml

Karen

[pristinelife]

Re: Your Google Sitemap

Your map is here

http://www.ourjourneytolife.com/sitemap.xml

Karen

Karen, is that the way it's suppose to look like? Coded? I've seen others sitemaps and they didn't look like mine. Theirs looked like a Contents page in a book. Thanks in advance Karen, I'm still learning, slowly but surely.

[navaldesign]

Re: Your Google Sitemap

There are two different kinds of sitemaps:

1. The visual ones. These contain all the links to all your pages that you want indexed by SE. Usually a link to the sitemap page is contained in the homepage.Once a SE has found your dite, it also discovers (from the homepage link) the sitemap page and from there all your pages URLs. This is a human sitemap, but serves as well for SEs too.
2. The SE sitemaps. These are only for SE use, and yes, they are usually in xml (like ROR). It does the same job, but only for SEs.

If you need a visual (human) sitemap as well as a xml sitemap, then you need to use some of the software you can find on the net (usually paid for) that allowes creating (and manually editing, to optimise) both the visual part as well as the xml part. Many of them also allow autoatic submission of the site and sitemap also to SEs.

[djigivara]

Re: Your Google Sitemap

Thanks dear Brad I load it all done !

[proactivator]

Re: Your Google Sitemap

Hi Navaldesign,
Am I right or have I got it hoplessly wrong? I downloaded the ror.xml file via blueftp to my html folder and created a hidden link to my index page (not very hidden; click on the red dot ober the "i" in jamesbartondesign title). Now the ror file seems to show only info about my home page: is this as it should be? Also the file looks very, very different depending on which browser it is viewed in: IE,firefox, opera or netscape.

I have also manually created a visual site map, accessible from text navigation at the bottom left of my main pages, including a link to the ror.xml file. Should I have done this?

Would be grateful if you could point out any mistakes in what I have done.

Regards,
James.

[pristinelife]

Re: Your Google Sitemap

There are two different kinds of sitemaps:

1. The visual ones. These contain all the links to all your pages that you want indexed by SE. Usually a link to the sitemap page is contained in the homepage.Once a SE has found your dite, it also discovers (from the homepage link) the sitemap page and from there all your pages URLs. This is a human sitemap, but serves as well for SEs too.
2. The SE sitemaps. These are only for SE use, and yes, they are usually in xml (like ROR). It does the same job, but only for SEs.

If you need a visual (human) sitemap as well as a xml sitemap, then you need to use some of the software you can find on the net (usually paid for) that allowes creating (and manually editing, to optimise) both the visual part as well as the xml part. Many of them also allow autoatic submission of the site and sitemap also to SEs.

Naval? Would you kindly give me the url's of the visual ones that allow automatic submission of the site and sitemap? Preferably the ones that are free? Thanks, you're a sweetie.

[Karen Mac]

Re: Your Google Sitemap

James

DO NOT PUT A HIDDEN LINK to anything as thats a BIG NO NO. All you have to do is enter a meta tag to tell the SE where your XML site map is located.

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="ROR" href="sitemap.xml" />

And the search engines will see it just fine.

Pristine:

A visual site map is just a page with links on it to all your pages and products.

Heres a list of them on google.. around 4 million.. im sure one of them is FREE!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=html+sitemap+maker

Karen

[Karen Mac]

Re: Your Google Sitemap

I named my sitemap, sitemap, so if you have left yours as ror, in the link above, change it to ror.xml in the meta tag.

Hidden LINKS, or even the practive of linking one LETTER will get you SE banned and defeat the purpose of putting up a sitemap to start with.

Karen