Operation Manual

Setting up Sites and Pages 41
Just like the robots file, the setting of site and page properties creates the sitemap
file (this is published with your 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. Choose Site Properties... from the File menu.
2. From the Search Engine menu option, 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) From page properties, to add the page to the sitemap file,
ensure Override site search engine settings and Index this page are
checked. 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.