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Sitemap Creation From A Database

Scripts To Create Search Engine Maps From Your Data

The sitemap protocol is used by the search engines to find and index the pages on your site. The protocol is currently used by the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Ask.com) to find pages to index.

The sitemap file is easy to create for small sites but sites with hundreds (or thousands) of pages based on databases pose a tougher problem.

I faced this problem because this site has over 250 articles stored in a database and I need an easy way to maintain a sitemap with URLs for all of these articles. I wrote a custom script to use the database of articles to update the sitemap whenever an article is added. This script only reads data from your database, it doesn't change your database in any way.

Search Engine Sitemap Added To Browsetips.Com

I recently added a sitemap creation script on www.browsetips.com. This site has over 1700 Tips on five subdomains. After the webmaster adds new articles the sitemap script creates a sitemap with the new articles on each of the five subdomains.

For example, for the finance tips domain the script generates this sitemap.

Add A Search Engine Sitemap To Your Site

I can create a custom script for your site's MySQL database, please contact me for a quotation.

If you are using osCommerce, visit this page for information and a demonstration of a sitemap for osCommerce: osCommerce Sitemap Creator Script

Free Sitemap Generator Online

For simple sites which don't use a database, generate your sitemap with our free online form.

More Information About The Sitemaps Protocol

To view an actual sitemap, download the searchenginepromotionhelp.com database sitemap, this is a small (5 kb) compressed gzip file and needs to be uncompressed for viewing.

Two recent articles about the sitemap protocol Google, Yahoo And Microsoft Team Up For Sitemaps Protocol and Sitemaps Protocol Supported By Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask.

Link to the official sitemap protocol site: http://www.sitemaps.org/

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