How to build a Sitemap that automatically include all the blogs in the network

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    You can use a sitemap plugin to make maps per-site, and then point to that (I use XML Sitemap Feed and network activate it).

    Given that a network is meant to be separate (not connected) sites (like WordPress.com) this approach makes sense. You may need to fork that plugin, or find one that lets you cusomize your sitemaps so you can manually add in new sites?

    Not indexing your main site has nothing to do with the subfolder being virtual. And google *will* index those.

    Have you changed the privacy settings? What’s your url?

    No, you will not find a sitemap that will show all subsites. Have a list of them on the main site. then google WILL crawl them, no sitemap needed.

    Thread Starter severus

    (@severus)

    Hi thanks for the answer,

    Ipstenu, As you said, I have built a sitemap per blog, and then uploaded all of them into my Webmaster tools section in Google. All of then under the main address, but it did not work. How does it works this “pointing?

    Andrea_r All my sites are visible in the privacy settings

    The URL of my main site (home page) is: https://www.havanagraffiti.com

    All the blogs of the Network are linked from the home page (each option of the main menu is a sub-blog, and all sub-blogs have the same main menu, so they all link each other). I am working still in several blogs that are not ready that′s why they has not jet a link from the Home page

    Is this menu linking enough for Google to crawl each blog? Or should I increase the number of links in the home page?

    The site is online already more than 5 months, but the maps section is not indexed.

    Thanks again for the help

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    What plugin/method did you use to make the sitemaps?

    Where are they located? https://www.havanagraffiti.com/sitemap.xml is a 404

    On my site, https://ipstenu.org/sitemap.xml/ works. So does https://code.ipstenu.org/sitemap.xml/

    Neither file exists and code. is a virtual domain.

    Thread Starter severus

    (@severus)

    Hi Ipstenuc

    I was using the plugin: Google XML Sitemaps with Multisite support / Mario Kostelac. By default this plugin create and locate all the sitemaps in the address: https://havanagraffiti.com/sitemaps/ and give names like:
    www-havanagraffiti-com.xml
    www-havanagraffiti-com-mapa-cuba.xml
    www-havanagraffiti-com-fotos-cuba.xml

    Now I was remaking and moving all these sitemaps to the root directory so you could find then in

    https://www.havanagraffiti.com/sitemaps/www-havanagraffiti-com.xml
    https://www.havanagraffiti.com/sitemaps/www-havanagraffiti-com-mapa-cuba.xml
    https://www.havanagraffiti.com/sitemaps/www-havanagraffiti-com-fotos-cuba.xml

    And resend all of then to Webmaster tools from Google.

    Hopefully it gets better

    I googled your site and got “About 1,730 results”

    So I’d say it was being crawled. And I checked the sub sites. Those are being crawled too.

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