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1. severus
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi there,

   As the title indicates, I am interested in bilding a sitemap (XML) that include all the sites (with its posts and pages) in my network.

   The structure of my network is:

   http://www.mysite.com
   http://www.mysite.com/blog1
   http://www.mysite.com/blog2
   http://www.mysite.com/blog3
   http://www.mysite.com/blog4
   ...
   http://www.mysite.com/blog20

   I have tried the following plugins:
   - Google XML Sitemaps with Multisite support / Mario Kostelac
   - WordPress SEO / Yoast

   But still none have listed all the sites.
   At the moment I have to go one by one and create as many sitemaps as blogs I have.

   but it does not work with google since the addresses are not real. I can´t submit a sitemap for an address http://www.mysite.com/blog5 in the webmaster tool because this address does not exist like that in my server.

   As a consequence my site has been never indexed by google

   Is there any way to create a sitemap that update itself each time there is a change (new posts, new sites)?

2. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 1 year ago #

   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?

3. Andrea_r
   team pirate
   Posted 1 year ago #

   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.

4. severus
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   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: http://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

5. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 1 year ago #

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

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

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

   Neither file exists and code. is a virtual domain.

6. severus
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   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: http://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

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

   And resend all of then to Webmaster tools from Google.

   Hopefully it gets better

7. Andrea_r
   team pirate
   Posted 1 year ago #

   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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