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XML Sitemaps  anonymous  We had a few questions that we needed to get answers to in order to proceed with a plan for the SEO Site Map planning on our end. In regards to the robots.txt file and it referencing the sitemap XML file, does anyone know if that reference needs to be an absolute path or does it need to be a relative path? Also, the way our system works, all sites share a single robots.txt file, which is why this is important for us to understand. The path we take to get this implemented will be dependent on whether we can make this work using a single robots.txt file with absolute paths or not. Thanks in advance | ||
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November 2007 Take care to have uptodate robots and sitemap files on your siteroot, and you may also use Google webmaster tools to check and optimise these files.
Here's an example of an robots.txt file : # robots.txt for http:/www.yourdomain.com/ Sitemap: http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml User-agent: * Disallow: User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /Scripts/ Disallow: /webalizer/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And an example of sitemap.xml (with absolute links !) <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd"> <url> <loc>http://www.yourdomaincom/index.html</loc> <lastmod>2007-11-28T17:49:18+01:00</lastmod> <priority>1.0</priority> <changefreq>monthly</changefreq> </url> <url> <loc>http://www.yourdomain.com/fr/xxxx.html</loc> <lastmod>2007-02-28T00:00:00+01:00</lastmod> <priority>0.9</priority> <changefreq>monthly</changefreq> </url> <url> <loc>http://www.yourdomain.com/fr/xxxx.html</loc> <lastmod>2007-02-28T00:00:00+01:00</lastmod> <priority>0.8</priority> <changefreq>monthly</changefreq> </url> </urlset>  Reply
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November 2007 I always like to use absolute paths for everything on my website.
I dug this up He explains he uses an absolute path. Reply
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November 2007 I do not know the answer for sure, so I woulld rather not guess. However, this link to Google Sitemap and sitemaps.org instructions may help http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/04/whats-new-with-sitemapsorg.html http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php
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