sitemap – Tarik Billa

Pinging google sitemap after every new article submission? [closed]

January 8, 2024 by Tarik

Yes, that method is allowed by google. Issue your request to the following URL: www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=sitemap_url For example, if your Sitemap is located at http://www.example.com/sitemap.gz, your URL will become: www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=http://www.example.com/sitemap.gz URL encode everything after the /ping?sitemap=: www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yoursite.com%2Fsitemap.gz Issue the HTTP request using wget, curl, or another mechanism of your choosing. ADDED: Based on the link I … Read more

Multiple Sitemap: entries in robots.txt?

May 6, 2023 by Tarik

Yes it is possible to have more than one sitemap-index-file: You can have more than one Sitemap index file. Highlight by me. Yes it is possible to list multiple sitemap-files within robots.txt, see as well in the sitemap.org site: You can specify more than one Sitemap file per robots.txt file. Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap-host1.xml Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap-host2.xml Highlight … Read more

How to generate sitemap on a highly dynamic website?

March 27, 2023 by Tarik

On Stackoverflow (and all Stack Exchange sites), a sitemap.xml file is created which contains a link to every question posted on the system. When a new question is posted, they simply append another entry to the end of the sitemap file. It isn’t that resource intensive to add to the end of the file but … Read more