Website search results - baby steps please

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Theresa said:
...Do you think I am ready for a site map? I tried using a free site map generator and the code looks like it lists my pages and the frequency they are updated (monthly), is that all there is to a site map, and where does the code go?
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Well, I can't see what you generatored...but yes, if you generatored a xml file, that's all there is to it.

Example file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84">
<url><loc>http://www.sendbloomingflowers.com/index.htm</loc>
<lastmod>2006-11-25T12:33:32-04:00</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.sendbloomingflowers.com/Celebrations.htm</loc>
<lastmod>2006-11-24T09:28:27-04:00</lastmod>
</url>
</urlset>

and so on to include each page of your website...

you save it as
http://www.sendbloomingflowers.com/sitemap.xml

and upload it to your server...

(Some webmasters create the sitemap page in html so that consumers can use it as well as the spiders.)

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Here's your ranking today...

florist Amanda
Google - not found (9/21)
Google - not found (10/5)
Google - #26 (10/9)
Google - #12 (10/22)
Google - #11 (10/26)
Google - #7 (11/25)

Yahoo -not found
Yahoo - #33 (10/5)
Yahoo - #46 (10/9)
Yahoo - not found (10/22)
Yahoo - not found (10/26)
Yahoo - # 55 (11/25)

MSN - not found (9/21)
MSN - not found (10/5)
MSN # 51 (10/9)
MSN #16 (10/22)
MSN #17 (10/26)
MSN #6 (11/25)

florist Amanda OH
Google - not found (9/21)
Google - #46 (10/5)
Google - #52 (10/9)
Google - #13 (10/22)
Google - #15 (10/26)
Google - #7 (11/25)

Yahoo - #56
Yahoo - #19 (10/5)
Yahoo - #23 (10/9)
Yahoo - #25 (10/22)
Yahoo - #24, 26 (10/26)
Yahoo - #9 (11/25)

MSN - not found (9/21)
MSN - not found (10/5)
MSN - not found (10/9)
MSN - #8 (10/22)
MSN - #9 (10/26)
MSN - #1 (11/25)

flower shop in Amanda
Google - not found (9/21)
Google - #39 (10/5)
Google - #14 (10/9)
Google - #5 (10/22)
Google - #5 (10/26)
Google - #6 (11/25)

Yahoo - not found (9/21)
Yahoo - #2 (10/5)
Yahoo - #3 (10/9)
Yahoo - #1 (10/22)
Yahoo - #1, 6 (10/26)
Yahoo - #1 (11/25)

MSN - not found (9/21)
MSN - #15 (10/5)
MSN - #16 (10/9)
MSN - #3 (10/22)
MSN - #4 (10/26)
MSN - #4 (11/25)

florist Lancaster OH
Google - not found (9/21)
Google - not found (10/5)
Google - #35 (10/9)
Google - #33 (10/22)
Google - #27 (10/26)
Google - not found (11/25)

Yahoo - not found (9/21)
Yahoo #33 (10/5)
Yahoo #48 (10/9)
Yahoo - not found (10/22)
Yahoo - not found (10/26)
Yahoo #32 (11/25)


MSN - not found (9/21)
MSN - not found (10/5)
MSN - not found (10/9)
MSN - not found (10/22)
MSN - not found (10/26)
MSN - not found (11/25)

It will be interesting to see the changes next week...
We have 8 of 12 in the top 10 ranking, plus two #1's...

You rank well for numereous other pharses that we have not been tracing.

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free site map generator

I made a site map using free internet software, made the xml page, and uploaded it to my server. I am in the process of submitting it to Google and Yahoo.

The www.sendbloomingflowers.com is a parked domain and is a mirror site of www.bloomingflowers.net. After reading other posts, I am going to redirect the send site, instead of it being a mirror. I use the .com site on my business cards, since I thought it would be easier to remember.

Here is the website for the free site map generator that I used (this one looked like it used the new 0.9 format and also gives the links to submit your sitemap to google and yahoo)

http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/


Here is the code that was generated for my website, bloomingflowers.net:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/09/sitemap.xsd">
- <url>
<loc>http://www.bloomingflowers.net/</loc>

<priority>0.5</priority>

<lastmod>2006-11-26T22:49:16+00:00</lastmod>

<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>

</url>


- <url>
<loc>http://www.bloomingflowers.net/service.htm</loc>

<priority>0.5</priority>

<lastmod>2006-11-26T22:49:16+00:00</lastmod>

<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>

</url>


- <url>
<loc>http://www.bloomingflowers.net/Celebrations.htm</loc>

<priority>0.5</priority>

<lastmod>2006-11-26T22:49:16+00:00</lastmod>

<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>

</url>


- <url>
<loc>http://www.bloomingflowers.net/Getwell.htm</loc>

<priority>0.5</priority>

<lastmod>2006-11-26T22:49:16+00:00</lastmod>

<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>

</url>


- <url>
<loc>http://www.bloomingflowers.net/Christmas.htm</loc>

<priority>0.5</priority>

<lastmod>2006-11-26T22:49:16+00:00</lastmod>

<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>

</url>


- <url>
<loc>http://www.bloomingflowers.net/Sympathy.htm</loc>

<priority>0.5</priority>

<lastmod>2006-11-26T22:49:16+00:00</lastmod>

<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>

</url>


- <url>
<loc>http://www.bloomingflowers.net/Roses.htm</loc>

<priority>0.5</priority>

<lastmod>2006-11-26T22:49:16+00:00</lastmod>

<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>

</url>


- <url>
<loc>http://www.bloomingflowers.net/Weddings.htm</loc>

<priority>0.5</priority>

<lastmod>2006-11-26T22:49:16+00:00</lastmod>

<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>

</url>


- <url>
<loc>http://www.bloomingflowers.net/Congratulations.htm</loc>

<priority>0.5</priority>

<lastmod>2006-11-26T22:49:16+00:00</lastmod>

<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>

</url>


- <url>
<loc>http://www.bloomingflowers.net/Justbecause.htm</loc>

<priority>0.5</priority>

<lastmod>2006-11-26T22:49:16+00:00</lastmod>

<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>

</url>


- <url>
<loc>http://www.bloomingflowers.net/Newbaby.htm</loc>

<priority>0.5</priority>

<lastmod>2006-11-26T22:49:16+00:00</lastmod>

<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>

</url>


- <url>
<loc>http://www.bloomingflowers.net/Romance.htm</loc>

<priority>0.5</priority>

<lastmod>2006-11-26T22:49:16+00:00</lastmod>

<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>

</url>


- <url>
<loc>http://www.bloomingflowers.net/Birthday.htm</loc>

<priority>0.5</priority>

<lastmod>2006-11-26T22:49:16+00:00</lastmod>

<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>

</url>


- <url>
<loc>http://www.bloomingflowers.net/Anyday.htm</loc>

<priority>0.5</priority>

<lastmod>2006-11-26T22:49:16+00:00</lastmod>

<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>

</url>


- <url>
<loc>http://www.bloomingflowers.net/Guarantee.htm</loc>

<priority>0.5</priority>

<lastmod>2006-11-26T22:49:16+00:00</lastmod>

<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>

</url>


- <url>
<loc>http://www.bloomingflowers.net/Delivery.htm</loc>

<priority>0.5</priority>

<lastmod>2006-11-26T22:49:16+00:00</lastmod>

<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>

</url>


- <url>
<loc>http://www.bloomingflowers.net/Order.htm</loc>

<priority>0.5</priority>

<lastmod>2006-11-26T22:49:16+00:00</lastmod>

<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>

</url>


- <url>
<loc>http://www.bloomingflowers.net/Amanda-Ohio(OH).htm</loc>

<priority>0.5</priority>

<lastmod>2006-11-26T22:49:16+00:00</lastmod>

<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>

</url>


- <url>
<loc>http://www.bloomingflowers.net/Member.htm</loc>

<priority>0.5</priority>

<lastmod>2006-11-26T22:49:16+00:00</lastmod>

<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>

</url>


- <url>
<loc>http://www.bloomingflowers.net/index.htm</loc>

<priority>0.5</priority>

<lastmod>2006-11-26T22:49:16+00:00</lastmod>

<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>

</url>


- <url>
<loc>http://www.bloomingflowers.net/Holiday.htm</loc>

<priority>0.5</priority>

<lastmod>2006-11-26T22:49:16+00:00</lastmod>

<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>

</url>


- <url>
<loc>http://www.bloomingflowers.net/Seasonal.htm</loc>

<priority>0.5</priority>

<lastmod>2006-11-26T22:49:16+00:00</lastmod>

<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>

</url>


- <url>
<loc>http://www.bloomingflowers.net/guarantee.htm</loc>

<priority>0.5</priority>

<lastmod>2006-11-26T22:49:16+00:00</lastmod>

<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>

</url>


- <url>
<loc>http://www.bloomingflowers.net/delivery.htm</loc>

<priority>0.5</priority>

<lastmod>2006-11-26T22:49:16+00:00</lastmod>

<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>

</url>


- <url>
<loc>http://www.bloomingflowers.net/order.htm</loc>

<priority>0.5</priority>

<lastmod>2006-11-26T22:49:16+00:00</lastmod>

<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>

</url>


- <url>
<loc>http://www.bloomingflowers.net/about.htm</loc>

<priority>0.5</priority>

<lastmod>2006-11-26T22:49:16+00:00</lastmod>

<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>

</url>


- <url>
<loc>http://www.bloomingflowers.net/member.htm</loc>

<priority>0.5</priority>

<lastmod>2006-11-26T22:49:16+00:00</lastmod>

<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>

</url>


</urlset>


Whew....got the site map submitted to Yahoo and Google by following each of their directions. Can't wait to see the new ranks....hope I didn't mess anything up.
 
Parked domains and mirrors

Hi. I'm interested in your reference to the parked domain and the mirror site. I have a parked domain but I'm not quite sure how to use it. I thought initially it would be for removing affiliate numbers with a text url but I'm not that progressive yet. I saw a new member to this site has three domain names posted under his name. They are replicate sites. I am wondering how they are accepted into directories and search engines as I understood from my reading that they would be rejected?
 
Uploading the XML

Hi. It's me again. I submitted my url and was quite interested in the printout. I got to the upload part and saw the sitemap but didn't know how tolink it across to my website.....thanks for the help.
 
parked domain and sitemap

Hi Calla,
About the parked domain: I get 2 parked domains for free with my hosting package. I am using only one. It is like having another website, without paying another hosting fee with this exception: search engines, do not recognize a parked domain, like they would a main one.

I read in another post, that it is not good to have a mirror site, since you may get penalized in site rankings, so I am going to redirect my parked domain to my main one. (instead of mirroring it). Sorry, could not find the original post, to credit that person. (CHR or Mary Lou?)

About the xml sitemap file: I uploaded it to my server and then followed the directions from Google and Yahoo about how to submit it to them. (I chose to use the file method, since I was familiar with it. I had to take the info they gave me, make a file, and then upload it also to my server)

Hope this helps, I am still muddling my way through, but finally getting there, with the help of this forum.

Flowerchat is great.
 
Replicate websites (also called mirror sites) have identical content, Filenames, page tags, colors, layout, and everything!
Replicate websites are primarily used by corporations that have a large database and need replicate websites in order to reduce the data transfer traffic.

Black hat SEO's decided this was a great idea...If you develop one strong website, then 8 to 10 replicate sites, you could spam the top SERPS (search engine results pages) Now most search engines penalize duplicate content to prevent this spamming

So, when can you legitimately use duplicate content and not be penalize by the search engines...
when you develop a "Printer friendly" website page for the same item.
when product listings on two different websites that you own have overlaping content.
when you reprint articles or information that you have the rights to reprint and give the orginal author credits.
when you make honest mistakes in having duplicate content.

BIG HINT: If you have replicate websites, only submit the primary domain to the search engines.

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