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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana"><strong><span style="font-size: 16pt;
font-family: Tahoma"> Simple Sitemap Library</span></strong><br />
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Author: Nathan Buggia <<a href="http://nathanbuggia.com">nathanbuggia.com</a>><br />
Date: 4/15/2007<br />
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Enclosed is a really basic implementation of the sitemap protocol to get people
started adding sitemaps to their ASP.Net application. I've included support for
dynamically generating sitemaps, as well as pinging the major search engines that
support sitemaps: Google, Yahoo, Live Search (formerly MSN Search), and Ask.com.
Click one of the tasks below to try it out.<br />
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<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana"><strong><a href="sitemap.ashx">
Sample dynamically generated sitemap file</a></strong></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana"><strong><a href="ping.aspx">
Sample ping</a></strong></span></li>
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I also included a few notes on implementing sitemaps in your application:
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<li><span><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><strong>Don't
forget to add the "sitemap:" directive to your Robots.txt file</strong> - instead
of registering your sitemap with every search engine, you can support all of them
by adding one line to your Robots.txt file, "Sitemap: <em><fully qualified path to
your sitemap file, or sitemap index file></em>".
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<span style="color: #ffffff">_</span></span></span></span></li><li><span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><span>
<strong>Sitemaps are a suggestion,
not a command</strong> - the search engines will take all of the information provided
by your sitemaps as one of many inputs into determining what pages should be included
in their index, what is the reletive priority of each page on your site, and how
frequently your pages should be crawled.</span>
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<span style="color: #ffffff">_</span></span></span></li><li><span><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><strong>Generally, sitemaps
will not impact your page rank</strong> - they are most likely to affect the number
of pages that are crawled and indexed, as well as the speed at which they are indexed.
However, there are some cases where sitemaps have significantly impacted the page
rank of a site, and that is when the sites were not getting fully crawled, and the
sitemap led to the inclusion of some really good content into the index.</span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #ffffff">_</span></li><li><span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><strong>
Give your converting pages the highest priority</strong> - product pages, newsletter
signup pages and other pages that generate the most value from your customers should
recieve the highest priority. Also include the pages that you know your customers
will be the most interested in. </span></span>
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<span style="color: #ffffff">_</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><strong>Don't give
all your pages 1.0 priority</strong> - this just tells all the search engines that
all your pages are of equal importance, it doesn't help boost the importance of
any of your pages specifically.</span></span>
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<span style="color: #ffffff">_</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><strong>Give sitemaps
time to see impact</strong> - you may not see an impact right away from implementing
sitemaps, but that doesn't mean that they are not being used. Search engines are
still optimizing their implementations and figureout how exactly to use all of this
information.</span></span></li>
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Hello, I have been working in various aspects of web technology since my first web dev job in 1997, doing PERL and CGI. Since then I have worked in Java, C++/CGI (no, really), Systems Administration,
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