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Force google reindex of site

Here are a couple of options:

• To ask Google to index your site, submit the URL at this page: http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

• Submit a Sitemap to the Webmaster admin interface:

  • Download the Sitemap Generator program files, sitemap_gen-1.4.tar.gz, from http://sitemap-generators.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/en/sitemap-generator.html

  • Extract to a folder:

    cd ~/src
    tar xzf ~/Downloads/google/sitemap_gen-1.4.tar.gz
    cd sitemap_gen-1.4
    

  • Make your own copy of the example_config.xml file and change it’s permissions so you can edit it e.g:

    cp example_config.xml pkimber_net_config.xml
    chmod 644 pkimber_net_config.xml
    

  • Edit the file. To create a basic site map I did the following:

    • Set the basic site configuration:

      <site
        base_url="http://pkimber.net/"
        store_into="sitemap.xml.gz"
        verbose="1"
        >
      

    • Commented out all MODIFY or DELETE sections apart from:

      <directory
          path="/home/patrick/backup/pkimber/webroot"
          url="http://pkimber.net/"
         default_file="index.html"
      />
      

    • Used these basic filters (only), which just include html files:

      <filter action="pass" type="wildcard" pattern="*.htm*" />
      <filter action="drop" type="wildcard" pattern="*" />
      

  • Running the following command created the sitemap.xml.gz file:

    python sitemap_gen.py --config=pkimber_net_config.xml --testing
    

  • I then used the Google Webmaster tools to Submit a Sitemap.

    Note: The documentation for the Sitemap Generator tool, suggests setting up a cron job every half an hour (or whatever) to update the re-submit the site map…

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