Google Sitemap Support
For any website owner, ensuring that Google or one of the other search engines that support Sitemaps is indexing and understanding your site correctly, it is imperative to create a Sitemap XML file. If you are unfamiliar with this, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitemaps for more information.
This screenshot shows the editor used when creating or editing a publishing server.
Contensis supports Sitemaps inherently and enabling this functionality is as simple as ticking a box.
In Contensis when you create your site hierarchy and navigation, you are in effect building the Sitemap for use with Google and other search engines.
Choosing the Include in Sitemap option, not only powers the site map on your site itself, but also the Google Sitemap.
As you can see creating a Sitemap for use with tools such as Google is very straightforward with Contensis.
This screenshot shows the typical XML of a Sitemap automatically generated by Contensis
The actual format of the Sitemap is XML, and the main elements include the Location, Last Modification Date and Change Frequency. This information allows the search engines to intelligently spider your site; after all there is no point in them spidering a page twice a day if it only changes yearly for example.
Google first introduced Sitemaps in June 2005, and since then MSN and Yahoo! announced joint support for the Sitemaps protocol as well as other players such as ASK and Bing.