google sitemap

[gregharaksin]

ONe of the tools on the backend of my site is 'generate google sitemap'.
after i press that button, an option pops up to 'submit sitemap'.
How often can that be done? Maybe I submitted it a month ago, but i've added a lot of pages since.
Or is once enough?

[Markz]

I update my sitemap about once a month.

[DMike]

As I know, the google sitemaps are downloaded by google once at two days ... i guess you can submit the sitemap daily - also, if you have many urls, it would be better to split them in more sitemaps files and create a Sitemap index, which will have in it the names of your sitemaps files.

[gregharaksin]

ok thanks. I just didn't want to over-do it.

wow DMike, that would really be over my head. Thanks

[gibex]

G is downloading daily my sitemaps. Just be sure you have 50K links max in each sitemap.

[rmasse10]

everytime you make changes to your site, adding new pages, taking out useless pages..I would update the sitemap and resubmit it to the search engines

[DMike]

gregharaksin, take a look on www.sitemaps.org - it says there about sitemaps and sitemaps index - you can use those to keep the number of links per sitemap smaller(under 50 000 links)

[webmaster]

Greg uses the REW CMS, which generates all his xml for his Google sitemaps for him with the push of a button - Greg, feel free to check out the great resources being posted, but in your case they are purely educational, as you don't really have to sweat the technical stuff

[Gloria Singer]

I don't seem to have the tool on my backend for generating a google sitemap and/or submitting it to google. Can someone please advise me where this is and how to do it?
Thanks!
Gloria

[webmaster]

Gloria, feel free to post in template support and a member of the team will assist you - please ensure that you have created an account at www.google.com/webmasters/ and have the login available for the dev team if the require it.
Thanks