Is URL appearance defined by crawling or by XML sitemap

[Jordanrg]

I am having a problem developing a sitemap because I have long URLs that are made by zend.  They go like this: http://myagingfolks.com/professionals/20661/social-workers/pennsylvania-civi-stanger

Because these URL's are long and are fed by Zend when I try to call them all up, to put on the sitemap, the system runs out of memory and crashes.

Do you know what part of a search result, in google, say, comes from the URL?  Would it be fine for me to submit to google only www.myagingfolks.com/professionals/20661.  Does the crawler find that the URL is indeed http://myagingfolks.com/professionals/20661/social-workers/pennsylvania-civi-stanger or does it go with just what the sitemap tells it?

[Jordanrg]

Hi Joe,

THanks for the response.  One thing: given that my URL structure gets everything beyond /professional/number/blah blah blah from Zend, does that automatically count as a 301 forward.  Meaning, if I get the entire URL in the sitemap, will I still awaken the ire of the google-god?

thanks

[JoeAmadon]

Google is going to go to the pages submitted in the sitemap and see that they are serving a 301 response code, which they don't want to see in sitemaps. Either find a way to create a sitemap for the URLs you want to use (this is what I'd do) or shorten your URLs so they work with your sitemapping solution (although it is not a good idea to change URL structure because of a software limitation).