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* Authors: Michael Daigle
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* Copyright: 2008 Regents of the University of California and the
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* National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
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<td class="tablehead" colspan="2"><p class="label">Search Engine Sitemaps</p></td>
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<a href="./pagedreturn.html">Back</a> | <a href="./metacattour.html">Home</a> |
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<div class="header1">Table of Contents</div>
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<div class="toc1"><a href="#Intro">About Sitemaps</a></div>
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<div class="toc2"><a href="#Overview">Overview</a></div>
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<div class="toc2"><a href="#Implementation">Metacat Implementation</a></div>
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<div class="toc1"><a href="#SubmitSitemap">Submit Your Sitemap</a></div>
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<div class="toc2"><a href="#GoogleRegister">Register With Google</a></div>
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<div class="toc2"><a href="#GoogleReRegister">Re-Register With Google</a></div>
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<a name="Intro"></a><div class="header1">About Sitemaps</div>
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<a name="Overview"></a><div class="header2">Overview</div>
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<p>Sitemaps are xml files that tell search engines which sites you would like to
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be available in a web search. This is especially useful in Metacat for making
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individual metadata entries available via web searches. This does not happen now
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because of lack of a web accessible browse heirarchy of metadata.</p>
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<p>The site map file contains metadata about the available sites on your server. For
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information on the sitemap protocol, please refer to
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<a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/protocol.html"> the Google
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page on using the sitemap protocol</a>. The sitemap file must be available via the
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<p>Metacat generates the sitemap file automatically on a daily basis (more on this in
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the next section). You will need to manually register the sitemap file with Google in
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order for it to take effect. We discuss that in the
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<a href="#SubmitSitemap">Submit Your Sitemap</a> section.</p>
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<p>The scope of this discussion encompasses Google
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web searches only.</p>
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<p>Metacat automatically generates sitemap files for all public documents in
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your catalog. You can view the sitemap files at:
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<div class="code"><webapps_dir>/sitemaps</div>
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Metacat limits the number of entries to 25,000 (Google's limit is 50,000). So for
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every group of 25,000 public documents in Metacat, you will see additional sitemap
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files where <X> increments for each file.</p>
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<p>You should verify that your sitemap files are available to the web by browsing
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<a name="SubmitSitemap"></a><div class="header1">Submit Your Sitemap</div>
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<p>You will need to register for a Google Webmaster Tools account in order to
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register your sitemaps. A good description of how to do this is on
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<a href="http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34575&topic=8496">
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the Google help site</a>. Follow the instructions there to get your sitemaps registered.</p>
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<p>One note: you should register the full url path to your sitemap files, including
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<p>You will need to periodically revisit the Google Webmaster Tools utility to
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<p>A future enhancement to Metacat will automatically refresh the sitemap
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registration when necessary, although you will still need to do the initial
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