Sitemaps
heleng - May 28, 2009 - 11:14
My question is relating to sitemaps. I personally see a sitemap as a kind of organisational chart that lists all of the pages on the website in a diagram so you can see at a glance where the page is that you may want, under which section. I have been looking at the XML Sitemap module but this appears to be something completely different. What is a sitemap in Drupal?
http://www.sitemaps.org/
The website http://www.sitemaps.org/ explains what a sitemap is and the protocol used.
In short the sitemap is generated using XML. This defines an universal language that is machine readable by the search engines. Search engines may look for a sitemap.xml file and this tells them all the pages on the website. It can aid them with the indexing of the site and in theory speed up the time it takes for the pages to appear in their listings.
Whilst it is possible for a human to read the XML sitemap, it doesn't really mean much.
Sitemap module
Use sitemap module. http://drupal.org/project/site_map
Drupal sitemap is not different from any other sitemaps
There are two kinds of sitemaps: one kind is thought for the search engines, and one kind is thought for the users of a site.
That is not different from what a sitemap is for other CMSes.
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