How to Use Proper File Extensions for sitemaps xml

by Andy W.

 

 

Just a tip I thought I might share, though many of you might well already be aware of this...



For those of you who like take advantage of the time saving WPX2 sitemap generator, might I suggest that you take care when naming .html file extensions and use proper punctuation as I have discovered that Google sometimes has trouble accessing those pages indexed in the sitemap with an _ underscore in the file name.

For example:

Instead of using..

www.myserifsite.com/visitor_information.html

Replace the underscore with a - hyphen, for example..

www.myserifsite.com/visitor-information.html

Hope this helps?

Andy

 

Serif Forum - Sitemaps file extensions

 

5/22/2008 11:19:24 AM    ID:244907