I was taking a look at the Google Sitemaps thingy to see if it would be worth it as I guess a lot of developers/SEOers/web masters have done.
Since the first test one I did was on a static site and came back with no errors, it wasn’t exactly the most useful exercise in the world. To try and get something more useful out of it I decided to do one for DevBlog. Only problem is that it’s a PHP generated dynamic site so making the static XML file would take a bit of doing.
Luckily, you can get your server to read an XML document and parse the PHP tags by adding this to the httpd.conf
AddType application/x-httpd-php .xml
Unfortunatly, it’s a shared hosting server and it wouldn’t let me do this. So I decided to do one for my other dynamic blog, Wellsy’s World since that’s on my own server and I can just edit the httpd.conf itself.
It seems to working, Google says there’s no errors and it’ll get updated automatically but I still haven’t found a point of Google Sitemaps. Maybe there’ll be an increase in pages crawled but since Google has cached pretty much every page, it doesn’t really make much difference.
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