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Adding a Google Sitemap to your DNN portal

If you are like me..  Your DNN portals site maps are fairly static...  Yes, I am adding content, and have some RSS feed data, but I am rarely if ever adding new pages...  So I decided to just use a manual process to make my SiteMaps (in lew of a better free option)...  So you just need to go to an online site, that will spider and map your site for you... 

I used http://www.xml-sitemaps.com 

Then go ahead and upload the XML file into your portal root using the DNN file manager.

Friendly URLS are not enabled for XML files by default...  So unless you want to do this, I recommend just registering a direct link to google as http://www.yoursite.com/portals/0/sitemap.xml

via https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps (your gmail account will get you in)

or through the following URL format if you don't have / want an account

http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.danbartels.com%2Fportals%2F0%2Fsitemap.xml

That is all there is to it...

Dan

 

Published Friday, August 12, 2005 1:31 PM by DanB

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# re: Adding a Google Sitemap to your DNN portal @ Monday, March 05, 2007 3:36 AM

Google will not let you add http://www.yoursite.com/portals/0/sitemap.xml , xml has to be in the root folder. Is there any work around that?

sebo

# re: Adding a Google Sitemap to your DNN portal @ Sunday, November 18, 2007 7:40 PM

Yes Sebo is correct! How do you get around this issue Dan? Where do you put the file and als owhere do you put the Google Verification HTML File?

I've tried the HTTPDOCS folder & it doesn't work there & I've tried Portals/0/sitemap.xml and that doestn't work either!

Google are unhelpful and so I'd appreciate any advice anyone has on how to do this?

Thanks

MikeT

# re: Adding a Google Sitemap to your DNN portal @ Wednesday, November 28, 2007 8:34 AM

I seem to recall that you need to put the file at the root of your site (hence it only works with a single portal site)...  Google expects all of the contents relative urls to be below the sitemap file.

DanB

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