Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Build A Niche Store Sitemap
Today we are going to cover building a sitemap for your BANS store. Sitemaps help give the search engines a clear and easy path to follow and find all the pages on your Build A Niche Store website. If you are a newbie to this, I suggest this sitemap tool. It is very easy to use and I have been playing with it on a few of my stores. Make sure to save the output file as 'sitemap.xml' and upload it to your server and let Google Sitemaps know about it. You can also submit it to Yahoo and MSN as well.
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Hi Soggy
Was wondering about submitting our BANS Rss feed to places like Yahoo and the like.
Is it allowed :) ??
Has been on my mind and after following your link to Yahoo just now my eyes lit up like a small childs at Christmas when I seen the RSS Feed submitter.
I'm guessing it won't be otherwise it would be like rabbit season.
Yet if you don't ask you don't know. Also if it is possible, how do I submit it? lol sorry am new to this type of thing. My WYSIWYG is well trained and is as far as I have gotten apart from BANS recently.
I also used the Google Sitemap generator you pointed out and submitted it to Google, everyone of the Sitemaps came back with warnings, as it sets every page to the same level of importance. I went and changed some numbers around and resubmitted it. Last point on the Sitemap, the Generator picked up what looked like a page of the Auctions for each site when it created the sitemap so best delete that also, I will know in a day or 2 if they are accepted or not.
Soggy I am enjoying your content so if you reply, let me know a short term apart from BANS and I will place a link on my site for you, was going to use "Soggy Says" but thought you may have better plans. Maybe even throw out a few suggestions so I can chose what works best for me as well, also if you prefer another of your sites get the loving is fine with me, will be from the site I have used so that I send this to you, is no need to publish this, just Post the answers, a YES for RSS would be appreciated. :)
Ok don't forget that there RSS feed thing.
michael
michael,
The post you responded to is kind of outdated now with having to build your own sitemap as the newer BANS builds a sitemap on the fly. To fix the errors, please see the latest post today on the blog concerning sitemaps. By RSS feeds I am thinking you mean xml feed? I always highly suggest submitting your sitemap feed to all 3 major search engines. As far as linking to this blog, you can either link as BANS Blog or Build A Niche Store Blog or whatever other way you wish. I thank you in advance. Let me know if I have not answered your question.
Hi Soggy
Thanks for the info.
Placed your link here;
http://www.ownwebsitedesign.com/Web_Site_Design_Extra.html
Is no Pr on it, yet Google counts it as powerful, not too sure why :))
Google counts it as the most important link pointing at Chris's site which is the one above your listing, he also came straight out of the Box as a PR 5.
Soggy can you pull that link which is pointing to ownweb as it will dilute the effect the link I just placed will have on your site.
If you need a URL please use this one, http://www.frecklesandall.net/
Allthough a link is not really required from you and was not expected.
michael
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