Operation Manual

86 Developing Sites and Pages
Just like the robots file, the setting of site and page properties creates the
sitemap file (this is published with your Web site); the file is stored in the root
Web folder (perhaps alongside a robots.txt file).
One requirement of using search engine sitemaps is the need to
declare an absolute URL. This allows the proper URL address (e.g.,
www.helloworld.com) to be indexed, allowing search engine users
to link through to your site from their search results.
To enable search engine sitemaps:
1. (For the site) Choose Site Properties... from the File menu.
OR
(For a page) Right-click the page and choose Page Properties....
2. Check the Create search engine sitemap file option.
3. (Optional) When the above option is checked, the default sitemap.xml
file can be renamed. Click the Change... button and edit accordingly.
4. (For the site) To populate the sitemap file with a list of all the site's Web
pages (for improved page "discovery"), the Index pages on this site option
is checked. Uncheck to create an empty sitemap.xml file.
OR
(For a page) To add the page to the sitemap file, check Override site
search engine settings, then check the Index this page option. This
assumes the site as a whole has not been listed in the sitemap.xml file.
5. Check/uncheck Sitemap settings including:
• Page's last modified date and time.
• Page change frequency (set drop-down menu to hourly, daily,
weekly, monthly, yearly, or never): This suggests to the search
engine how frequently the page is likely to change. The search
engine will decide how often to index the page on the basis of this
setting.
• Page priority rating: 0.0 (lowest) to 1.0 (highest). Sets a page priority
relative to your other Web pages by which search engines are most
likely to index. The default can be set on site properties with specific
page overrides setting a priority higher or lower than the default.