EGIConsulting GoogleSitemap
About Google Sitemaps
Google Sitemaps is an easy way to tell Google about all the pages on your site, which pages are most important to you, and when those pages change, for a smarter crawl and fresher search results. Google Sitemaps also answers questions you might have about how Google sees your site. For example, you can learn about errors (such as if we're having trouble crawling your pages) and statistics (such as and what search queries return your site in the results).
How Google discovers page and how you can take control
Search engines such as Google discover information about your site by employing software known as "spiders" to crawl the web. Once the spiders find a site, they follow links within the site to gather information about all the pages. The spiders periodically revisit sites to find new or changed content. Google Sitemaps is an experiment in web crawling. By using Sitemaps to inform and direct our crawlers, we hope to expand our coverage of the web and speed up the discovery and addition of pages to our index. Submit a Sitemap file to tell us about all the pages on your site, which pages are most important, and how often they change. A Sitemap file doesn't replace our normal methods of crawling the web, it simply gives additional information. This is a beta program, so we cannot make any predictions or guarantees about when or if your URLs will be crawled or added to our index. Over time, we expect both coverage and time-to-index to improve as we refine our processes and better understand webmasters' needs.
Setup
General:
Since EGIConsulting - GoogleSitemap is implemented as an HTTP Module it requires no changes to any source code.
- Copy the EGIConsulting - GoogleSitemap .dll in the /bin directory.
- Modify the web.config file as explained below.
Web.config modifications:
The Typical web.config file may already contain the following sections, if not, you will need to add the missing sections.
<configuration> <system.web> <httpModules> httpModules> system.web>configuration>
In order to setup EGIConsulting - GoogleSitemap, the web.config file, will need to nest the following code inside the above structure:
<configuration> <system.web> <httpModules> <add verb="*" path="GoogleSitemap.axd" type="EGIConsulting.DNN.HttpModules.GoogleSitemap.GoogleSiteMapHandler, EGIConsulting.DNN.HttpModules.GoogleSitemap"/> httpModules> system.web> configuration>