Creating Sitemaps January 28, 2010 No Comments
When developing huge sites or sites that have frequently updated pages , such as new product pages in a shop. It is important that you make it as easy as you possibly can for the Google spiders to crawl and index your page.
Creating a site map should be your first job when finishing development or creating new pages.
There are generally two approaches to creating xml site maps, one option is to create you own from scratch and the other is to use an xml site map generator then edit the output before submitting. The latter is usually favored unless you are making a small change to the structure of your site. Read the rest of this entry »
XML Sitemap Basics – How To Get Your Site Crawled More Efficiently November 4, 2009 No Comments
As a developer at redsauce.com, I am always looking for the most efficient way of doing things, whether it be a PHP script or a database schema. Working on a truly huge site recently, it became obvious that google’s crawling was causing performance issues with the server the site was hosted on. If google doesn’t already know what pages your site contains (i.e. if its a new site), the google bot will have to go through every link on your site, possibly visiting certain pages several times.
