Sitemap Tips?

[byron3]

Hello all,

 

I have a working web site that uses php script to generate all of my pages. My page ranking is non-existent, from info I have read and from stats in my google analysis very little info is gathered by the robot web crawler from my script files. According to google's site masters tools I need a sitemap and should reference my site log files.

 

Where are my site log files stored and what path do I use?

 

Any tips for a higher ranking with script generated pages?

 

Byron Thomas

[TCH-Bruce]

Your log files are not accessible by web applications. They are stored in the "tmp/awstats" folder of your site.

 

But you may be able to use a sitemap generator

[byron3]

Bruce,

 

The following is from googles sitemap generator instructions.

 

In order to create a configuration file for your site, you must have the following information:

 

* The base URL for your site (such as http://www.example.com/). Only URLs that begin with this base URL can be included in the Sitemap. Ensure that you include the protocol (such as http://). For instance, http://www.google.com is a valid base url, but www.google.com is not.

* The web server path to the location where you want to store the Sitemap. Generally, this is the path to the base URL as the Sitemap cannot contain URLs that are in a higher-level directory from the location of the Sitemap. When you run the Google Sitemap Generator, it creates the Sitemap and places it in the location you specify.

* The methods you want the Sitemap Generator to use to create your Sitemap. You can use any combination of methods. The following methods are available:

 

* URL —list individual URLs in this section of the configuration file, along with information about each URL. You would generally use this method in conjunction with another method to manually include additional URLs that other methods wouldn't pick up.

* URL list —point the configuration file to a text file that contains a list of URLs. You might want to use this method if this text file already exists or if you use a script to generate a list of URLs.

* Directory paths —specify the directory paths for your site and corresponding URLs to those paths. The Sitemap Generator will create a list of URLs based on the contents of those directories. You might want to use this method if your site consists of static HTML files.

* Access logs —point to the path to your log files. The Sitemap Generator will create a list of URLs based on the URLs included in the logs. You might want to use this method if your site consists of dynamic pages.

* Sitemap —point to existing Sitemaps that you have created with the Sitemap Generator. The Sitemap Generator will create a single Sitemap that includes the URLs contained in each Sitemap. You could use this method if you have already created several smaller Sitemaps that you want to combine into one larger Sitemap.

 

 

I would like to use the Access logs option here because my pages are dynamically generated.

 

Any other suggestions?

 

Byron Thomas

[TCH-Bruce]

Well your logs are in /home/username/tmp/awstats. I suppose you may be able to copy them to your publc_html folder to create your site map and then delete them.

 

Google had some tools that I used on my blog at one time to create a site map but it wasted so much bandwidth I decided to remove it.

 

There are others here that have created sitemaps maybe one of them will respond.

[carbonize]

I believe that Coffeecup, amongst others, have made a spider that will crawl your site and create the Google site map files for you.