$Id: README.txt,v 1.1.2.2.2.4 2009-05-19 07:27:19 kiam Exp $ DESCRIPTION ----------- XML sitemap automatically creates a site map that conforms to the sitemaps.org specification. This helps search engines keep their search results up to date. XML sitemap replaces the Google Sitemap module written by Matthew Loar as part of Google Summer of Code 2005. You can view your site map at http://www.example.com/?q=sitemap.xml. INSTALLING XML SITEMAP ---------------------- See INSTALL.txt in this directory. SETTING UP YOUR SITE MAP ------------------------ Go to http://www.example.com/?q=admin/settings/xmlsitemap to configure general settings. Chunk size: The maximum number of links to include a single site map. If the total number of links exceeds the chunk size, multiple site maps will be generated, and http://www.example.com/?q=sitemap.xml will be an index of your site maps. Links may be assigned a priority between 0.0 and 1.0. The default priority is 0.5. A priority of "Not in site map" excludes a link from the site map. Front page priority: This setting determines the priority of the front page. By itself, the XML sitemap module adds only the front page of your site to the site map. Other types of links are handled by supporting modules. XML sitemap menu Allows menu items to be added to the site map. You can choose the menus to include at http://www.example.com/?q=admin/settings/xmlsitemap and can add and remove menu items at http://www.example.com/?q=admin/build/menu. The priority of a menu item is determined by its weight. XML sitemap node Adds nodes to the site map and provides Views style plugins for creating specialized site maps with Views. The default priority of a node is determined by a combination of its content type priority, whether it appears on the front page of your site, and the number of comments it has received. You can set content type priorities at http://www.example.com/?q=admin/content/types, and you can override the default priority for individual nodes when you add or edit a node. XML sitemap term Adds taxonomy terms to the site map. You can change the default priority when you add or edit a vocabulary, and you can override the default priority when you add or edit individual terms. XML sitemap user Adds user profiles to the site map. The anonymous user role must be given permission to access user profiles at http://www.example.com/?q=admin/user/access. You can change the default user priority at http://www.example.com/?q=admin/user/settings. The priorities set for user roles at http://www.example.com/?q=admin/user/roles will override the default user priority. You can override both the default priority and the role priority when you add or edit a user. SUBMITTING YOUR SITE MAP TO SEARCH ENGINES ------------------------------------------ XML sitemap can notify search engines when your site map changes. Which search engines you can notify depends on the optional modules you have enabled. The included "XML sitemap: Engines" module supports Google, Yahoo!, Ask, and Windows Live. Go to http://www.example.com/?q=admin/settings/xmlsitemap and choose the Search engines tab to configure search engine notifications. Submit site map when updated: Notify search engines every time your site is updated. You should check this box only if it’s very important that search engines be notified of changes immediately or you cannot schedule notifications with cron. Submit site map on cron run: This is the preferred way to notify search engines of updates. XML sitemap will wait until the next cron run to notify search engines of updates. Log access: Record each time the site map is retrieved. MORE INFORMATION ---------------- XML sitemap documentation: http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/gsitemap The Sitemap protocol: http://sitemaps.org. Search engines: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=8476 (Google) http://developer.yahoo.com/search/siteexplorer/V1/ping.html (Yahoo!) http://asksupport.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/ask.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=2729 (Ask) http://webmaster.live.com/ (Windows Live)