Search Engine Food – Sitemaps!
Claim Your Fame: Sitemaps
You’ve been asking, and now here’s another great feature to add to your SEO toolbox! We’ve rolled out Sitemaps for everyone. These files are field guides for search engines crawling SmugMug, and we now feed lots of up-to-date useful information about your pages to help you get listed.
They’re simple; you don’t need to do a thing. If you’re looking for fame we bet you already have Hello World! set to Yes, which is the only requirement.
Important: The best Sitemap in the world won’t help if you don’t have great backlinks. Keep tagging, linking and posting your photos to the world – on your blog, message forums, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Above all, don’t forget to use all of the great SEO tips we give you so you can get the best possible results.
Enjoy the limelight,
The SmugMug Family
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Fanstastic!!!
Great photography site
Good one !
When looking in Google Dashboard is this the sitemap-index.xml ?
If so, Google is coming back with errors on the sitemap-images.xml.gz. The other 2 files have no errors.
This is one of many reasons I am a member of SmugMug….Excellent!
Wonderful, if I only new what all that tech jargon meant!
or by his hilping=وز او چاره ئی
This is great news!! Thanks!
من همیشه درشعبه مدیریت عمومی نشرات ،توسعه وترویج سکتور درهستم=I am at work all the time in PUBLICATIONS GENERALL OFFICE
What is the URL for our sitemap?
http://release-notes.blogs.smugmug.com/2010/07/29/search-engine-food-sitemaps/#comment-2057
Excellent news. Hopefully that will get me higher than my usual page 5 on Google.
Thanks for continually trying to make smug mug better! This is a great feature!
That’s a awesome tool, I can’t wait to see how it preform!
Great! Thanks!
http://www.willisetech.com uses SmugMug to store and sell event, sports, and area photographs, as well as securing client photos while working through a project. Having SEO capability is awesome! Thanks for continuing to make SmugMug the best photographer solution out there!
John Willis
Great!
Thanks!
Can I sign on securely without having to check a box every single time yet?
This gaping hole in security is a daily pain.
Isn’t the XML for “sitemap-images” bad? The spec referenced by the XML(http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd) does NOT contain a definition for “contenttype” – only “changefreq” and “priority”.
I also have 25 errors in one of mine; this sitemap: “http://photos.hemsfamily.com/sitemap-images.xml.gz” contains 25 URL’s to the domain “http://hemsfamily.smugmug.com” which is not where the sitemap came from so Google barfs on it. Bing barfs on this one too because of the illegal “contenttype” child element
Thanks, guys. You rock as usual!!! I am so happy with how you continually advance your services.
Great ideas! Like the site map, Thank you!
there is a problem with private domains (PRO) that are not under the smugmug domain.
The sitemap “sitemap-images.xml.gz” is showing links that are from the smugmug domain (as stated by Adam.H) and not from the hosted domain name.
Please fix this, or explain how to solve it.
BTW – this doesn’t happen for all photos, but just for a few, which is even more peculiar.
THANK you, Smugmug!
Empowering SEO capabilities means more visibility at the same cost, you surprised many of us and fulfilled the wishes of the hopeful.
thank you guys!
Thank you!
This is a great innovation
Thanks for the great idea!
Here, is a “trick” I use. I kinda hate to go to a Facebook or forum page and spam them with my web site address. Especially if another photographer is kind of in control of the forum.
So I made a “QR” code that takes you to my site. Smart phones are getting more and more popular. So i have one set as my avatar. Most people viewing the forum will see it and scan it and they get a link to my site.
@RickHays & SmugMug, thanks for making it possible for neophytes to be in the search engine link loop.
Wondering if a site can be set up to accept “donations” should anyone want to remain non-profit? Just considering this as an alternative to, or in addition to, having fees for photos. I plan to upgrade to “Pro” mode in the near future as my proficiency improves. Also, if set up for fees, do we legally need signed agreement with anyone for whom we post a portrait?
Thank you for your great site and helpful (patient) staff!
where do I find my sitemap???
Hi John, you don’t have to do a thing except make sure you have Hello World! set to Yes on your account. We make sure search engines see it automatically.
I know we don’t have to do anything, but I would like to add the sitemap to my Google Webmaster account, So wouldn’t I need the sitemap address?
/sitemap-galleryimages.xml.gz and /sitemap-index.xml both are present in mine, and GWTools accepted/indexed them both.
Not being able at the rate of $250 a year to download my own sitemap for my own google analytics is not acceptable.
and not being able to download Event email lists is ridiculous!!!
Worked for me too.. Thanks