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Re: GOOGLE SITEMAP -- Anyone with a working brain should be able to help me...

Posted By: Angela L.
Monday, 3 April 2006, at 9:39 a.m.

In Response To: GOOGLE SITEMAP -- Anyone with a working brain should be able to help me... (MaaMaw)

Hi MaaMaw,

Here's a (free) Google Sitemap generator: http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

The free version will only do a limited number of pages (which is still pretty big), but once you see how it works you can modify it yourself. I use it for Google and the sitemaps are always accepted.

Hope that helps.

Angela

> I can't believe this.

> I tried to make a Google Sitemap for a URL with ONE STINKIN' PAGE and I
> can't do it.  (I figured that was a good place to start, before I try
> to make one for a site with hundreds of pages.)

> It won't work.

> I don't know what I'm doing.

> The instructions are way too complicated for me.

> I don't understand why their file ends in .gz but that's some kind of zip
> thing but some of their examples end in .xml and I don't understand why
> they wrote it for somebody with a degree in rocket science when they're
> usually so dummy-friendly.

> Are you supposed to actually *see* the sitemap when you put it up?

> .gz shows nothing

> .xml shows the following error:

> XML Parsing Error: xml processing instruction not at start of external
> entity
> Location: http://www.wordmentor.com/sitemap.xml
> Line Number 1, Column 3:
> --^

> This is my code (with pointy things in place of the brackets
> obviously).  I copied it EXACTLY from the example.

> [?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?]
> [urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84"]

> [url]

> [loc]http://www.wordmentor.com/[/loc]

> [lastmod]2006-04-03[/lastmod]

> [changefreq]yearly[/changefreq]

> [priority]0.8[/priority]

> [/url]
> [/urlset]

> I'm embarrassed to ask because I see people far and wide saying,
> "Have you done a Google sitemap yet?" like it's easy and any
> idiot can do it.

> Well I can't.

> Luv,

> MaaMaw

> P.S.  Thank you for helping me :-(

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