If you have a web site and a blog site, chances are you have two seperate Google sitemaps that list the URLs within each site. I use WordPress for my blog and PHP for my web site.
This means that I have to maintain two Google sitemaps and there is no easy way (i.e. a tool) to generate a proper sitemap for all the pages within my sites. I use the Google Sitemaps plugin for WordPress, but use another sitemap generator for my website.
If you do have two Google sitemaps, then I have enhanced a PHP script to read these two Google sitemaps, extract the URLs and to append them into Yahoo and MSN (Live Spaces) sitemaps. Both these files are identical except in name only (yahoo.txt and urllist.txt).
This helps both Yahoo and MSN find their respective sitemaps more easily and aids SEO as they can find your page URLs more easily. This approach also allows for any future changes in the specifications of Yahoo and MSN sitemaps to be easily accomodated.
You are free to download, review and use this PHP script as you so desire.
Download the Google to Yahoo MSN Sitemaps Creator Tool
The download includes a readme.txt file for instructions on how to use the script.
For more info on future releases, please go to my static page:
Google to Yahoo MSN Sitemaps Creator Tool Page
If you are happy with this script, please leave a trackback or comment on this post.
2 Comments
at 12:55 am - 20th October 2006 Permalink
Any chance of having a modified version of this which just converts one Google sitemap file, not two?
at 12:29 pm - 21st October 2006 Permalink
Hi EcoGraphic,
You are free to modify and use the script to your own needs.
If you need to only convert one google sitemap then I recommend that you use the original PHP script from iELLIOT’s blog. See the Google to Yahoo MSN Sitemaps Creator Tool Page (link in post above) that has a link to his website.
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