Noob 101 - Sitemaps
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Hi guys, looking for some sitemap help.
I'm running two seperate systems so my auto-generated sitemap on the main system has a few holes in it. I'd like to submit this to webmaster anyway, and then plug the holes with missing pages by adding them to 'Fetch as Google'. Does that make sense or will Google ignore one of them?
Many thanks,
Idiot
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If they are under one domain you could use some external sitemap generator and generate a single sitemap for both no?
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A sitemap is just a file. So, as long as you can modify the automated sitemap file and insert the tags for the second CMS, you should be fine. You would have had a problem if there were 2 sitemap files in the root as it would mean that your site is giving different sitemap files.
Out there in the webmaster tool, you can list the path of your sitemap file and Google bot would automatically pick up the file.
So, your approach looks good to me.
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I have two cms systems running different pages on one website. One cms has an auto-generated and updated sitemap on one, but there is none on the other. I want to use the sitemap, but need to manually 'add' the missing pages from the second cms.
Many thanks for the quick reply!
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Do you have 2 systems and a single sitemap or 2 systems with 2 sitemaps? What exactly do you mean when you say that you have 2 systems? Are they 2 different websites?
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