Google Site Maps
 

I am looking at submitting a site map to Google. Like many LL, I have an index page with a seperate page for each category. I want Google to crawl all my category pages.

I guess first question is, is a Google site map a means of making this happen?

I am trying to build a site map, and have used a couple of different utilities. It looks to me that in mapping my site, not only are the pages getting mapped, but the links on each page are getting mapped. I guess it's looking at the php and crawling each and every link I have, which is thousands. Is this what I want? Somehow I do not think so, but I see no way of controlling it.

Am I going about this all wrong...or what...?

I used the utility that Google provides. It spidered all the links that are on the domain but no outgoing links off the domain. The output was in xml I believe.

Yeah, that's the one that runs on the server as a script, right? I did find a downloadable one that runs locally, and didn't try to map all my links, just the pages the links were on. Did you find the site map helped getting indexed quicker?

It was my first site map so I don't have anything to compare it to, but it was pretty quick.

Hmmm, sitemaps are very helpful in site indexing. :D

This is one of the first plugins I install on ALL of my blogs. :) Very helpful