Comments for ThreeBit Media http://www.threebit.com/blog Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:48:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comment on Sitemaps and Multilingual Websites by Bill Knechtel http://www.threebit.com/blog/seo/sitemaps-and-multilingual-websites.html/comment-page-1#comment-36 Bill Knechtel Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:48:42 +0000 http://www.threebit.com/blog/?p=11#comment-36 @Thomas: For the most part, yes it's about organization. I use a python script I found some time ago to recurse a given URL and generate a sitemap, which I then tweak by hand to make sure things like blog category links, tag links, or other redundant information is not included. If my sitemap is more granular it's easier for me to sift though the stuff I don't want. Also, the individual translations may not have identical content, and may not be updated simultaneously. For instance, the site's blog and e-commerce are only done in English, so when those parts are updated, I only regenerate a sitemap for the english portion of the site. Make sense? @Thomas: For the most part, yes it’s about organization. I use a python script I found some time ago to recurse a given URL and generate a sitemap, which I then tweak by hand to make sure things like blog category links, tag links, or other redundant information is not included. If my sitemap is more granular it’s easier for me to sift though the stuff I don’t want. Also, the individual translations may not have identical content, and may not be updated simultaneously. For instance, the site’s blog and e-commerce are only done in English, so when those parts are updated, I only regenerate a sitemap for the english portion of the site. Make sense?

]]> Comment on Sitemaps and Multilingual Websites by Thomas http://www.threebit.com/blog/seo/sitemaps-and-multilingual-websites.html/comment-page-1#comment-35 Thomas Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:16:36 +0000 http://www.threebit.com/blog/?p=11#comment-35 If the sitemap protocol itself doesn't actually say anything about language, then it would seem that your sitemap structure (using the index with different sitemaps for different languages) is purely for organizational purposes? Thanks! If the sitemap protocol itself doesn’t actually say anything about language, then it would seem that your sitemap structure (using the index with different sitemaps for different languages) is purely for organizational purposes?

Thanks!

]]> Comment on Sitemaps and Multilingual Websites by Lembit http://www.threebit.com/blog/seo/sitemaps-and-multilingual-websites.html/comment-page-1#comment-6 Lembit Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:39:15 +0000 http://www.threebit.com/blog/?p=11#comment-6 Not easy to find indeed, but Google has shortly covered sitemap indexes in Webmaster Tools Help: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=71453 P.S. What brought me here was the query "xml sitemap for multilingual site" at Google that returned this page as No 1 result. Not easy to find indeed, but Google has shortly covered sitemap indexes in Webmaster Tools Help: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=71453

P.S. What brought me here was the query “xml sitemap for multilingual site” at Google that returned this page as No 1 result.

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