Difference between revisions of "AboutUsSiteMap"

OurWork

What (summary)

Index our site and present search engines with the resulting sitemap.

Why this is important

Traffic from search engines is our bread and butter. If there are pages that they would index if only they knew about them ... we should let them know. This has a 5% chance of doubling our traffic with 3 days worth of work.

DoneDone

• We have a validated index and sitemap files that include all of our page titles
• We are serving it up from the proper location so that googlebot and other search engines crawlers can find it

Steps to get to DoneDone

• Create a branch and stage it locally.
• Read out http://sitemaps.org/
• Read out http://sitemaps.org/protocol.php
• Read out https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/protocol.html
• Read out https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/sitemap-generator.html
• Understand this task
• Get a list of all of our pages
  • Create a script to get all of our pages
• Break it up into sitemaps that have no more than 50,000 urls and are smaller than 10MB each

Notes

• http://sitemaps.org/
• google's link to the sitemap protocol
• google's link to a python sitemap generator