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Old 05-09-2008, 12:19 PM
 
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Default Re: Anyone Recommend a good xml sitemap feed for google/msn/yahoo

Sorry I posted my previous comment on the wrong thread. We put this Google site map on our website. http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ There is a free version if your website is small but we had to upgrade to the paid version which was still cheap. Google and Google Webmaster Tools liked it.
Let me issue a word of warning though and I had to learn this the hard way. As soon as Google's bot visits your website to read that sitemap you have placed your website under a microscope with Google. Unknown to me I had a website designer who was unfamiliar with PHP. I had duplicate content out on Google. One set of products in HTML and a second set in PHP. When I submitted that sitemap and Google declined it they also very silently hit us with a duplicate content violation. All our products sank off the face of Google never to be found again by buyers. We were never contacted that we were hit with a duplicate content violation but it was never a question. Being inexperienced we just knew something was wrong. Having someone experienced look over the website and find the error wasn't hard. BCS Enginneering's programs fixed everything quickly once we knew we had a problem. So before you submit your website to Google with a sitemap take the time to look over your website for any errors. It was an expensive and painful lesson.
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