google sitemap protocol - how create sitemap in asp.net 4 for google

Question

hi my dear lords :
i have a page like below :

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="MySiteNav.aspx.cs" Inherits="Amlak.MySiteNav" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title>My Site Nav</title>
    <link href="Styles/MySiteNav.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
    <h3>
    My Web Site Navigation
    </h3>
        <asp:SiteMapDataSource ID="SiteMapDataSource1" runat="server" />
        <asp:TreeView ID="TreeView1" runat="server" DataSourceID="SiteMapDataSource1">
        </asp:TreeView>
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

Q's :
1-is it enough for introduce to google as my web site navigation site map?
should i add something in this page or other pages?

2-what is the regular protocol for google SiteMap ?
i googled it for this protocol ! but i seems this protocol has been deleted from google help! the other resources are too old!

thanks for halp

Zhaph - Ben Duguid · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-23T15:15:28.223

Information about Google's accepted Sitemap protocol can be found from the following page:

About Sitemaps on the Webmaster Tools Help site.

They also provide details on How to create a Sitemap.

Note that this is a different format to that chosen by MS for the ASP.NET Sitemap format, but you might well be able to produce one from the other with some XSLT - for example, the search engine Sitemap doesn't really care about site structure because it's not building navigational features, it only cares about the pages themselves.

Edit to respond to comment:

Once you've created your sitemap you need to tell the search engines about it. There are a number of ways you can do this, starting with the page linked to from my second link called "Submitting Sitemaps".

Many site engines also support the "Sitemap" extension to the Robots.txt file:

Sitemap: http://example.com/sitemap_location.xml

Another option is to add it to the metadata of one or more of your pages:

<link rel="sitemap" href="sitemap.xml" type="application/xml" />

Alternatively, if you're not being crawled well at the moment, you can also submitting it directly to the search engines using their Webmasters areas, where you can log in, and once you've proved ownership of the site (usually by uploading a "known" file to the root, or modifying the metadata of the homepage with a known string), you are able to upload sitemaps directly, manage URLs, and get reports on performance:

thanks for answer / but after making that xml file what should i do ? — SilverLight, May 23 '11 at 14:37

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 23 '11 at 13:09

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here is some information on what format you'd need to have for your sitemap: http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php

answered May 23 '11 at 13:09

John Boker

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 23 '11 at 13:28

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Check http://www.vinull.com/Post/2006/12/03/aspnet-supporting-the-sitemap-protocol.aspx for integrating asp.net SiteMapProviders with the sitemaps protocol.

answered May 23 '11 at 13:28

Thomas Li

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thank you man / but it has error in this line in .net 4.0 -> foreach (SiteMapNode node in SiteMap.Provider.FindSiteMapNode("~/Default.aspx").GetAllNodes()) !!! – SilverLight May 23 '11 at 14:23
So, what is the error? Make sure you add using System.Web at the top. – Thomas Li May 23 '11 at 14:44

google sitemap protocol - how create sitemap in asp.net 4 for google

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