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Freeway Reference: Meta Tags and Search Engines

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The Site Mapper Action

Internet search engines need to index the content and pages of a site in order to assess the relevance of a site so it can best match the

terms used in the search. You can help this process along by creating a “Sitemap” file (not to be confused with another term used to

describe a list of pages often used to help visitors find their way around a large, complex site).

A Sitemap file is an xml file which can be submitted to search engines so they can be given information about the page structure and

links of your site. Previously, this was something which needed to be done manually after the site had been uploaded and at regular

intervals thereafter, but now Freeway 6 has made the process a lot simpler and quicker.

The new Site Mapper Actions can be set to create and upload the xml file with the rest of your site files and particular pages can have

their details submitted at set frequencies or with a specific priority. You can also choose which search engines you wish to submit the

Sitemap file to.

Applying the Site Mapper Folder Action

You need to apply the Site Mapper Action to the Site Folder in your Freeway file. First, however, you will need to enter the web address

(where the site will eventually be available once it is uploaded) in the Upload panel of the Document Setup dialog. If you apply the

Action without entering a web address you will see a prompt in the Actions palette telling you to set up the URL.

To enter the URL go to File>Document Setup, click on the Upload tab, enter the URL in the Web Address field and click OK.

After setting up the URL the Actions palette you can now select the Site Folder in

your Site Panel (the folder at the top of list of site pages, immediately underneath the

line below the Master page(s). To do this, select the Site Folder, go to Page>Folder

Actions and choose Site Mapper from the list.

After the Folder Action has been applied, you will see an alert in the Actions palette

telling you that you need to apply the Site Mapper File Location Action to a page in

your site (this is so the sitemap file will point to a specific page).

Select the page you want to use as the main sitemap page in the Site Panel (this is

normally your home page), go to Page>Page Actions and choose Site Mapper File

Location (note that there are no options for this Action in the Actions palette). Now

you can set up the Site Mapper Folder Action by selecting the folder which has the

Action applied.

In the Actions palette you will see a few options. The XML sitemap checkbox lets

you switch on or off the generation and uploading of the Sitemap file.

Below this is a popup and slider to set the frequency and priority for all the pages in

your site (if you want to use frequency and priority settings for individual pages, you

can use the Site Mapper Page Action, which is mentioned later).

There is an option for compressing the Sitemap file into a gzip archive, which is best

used for large sites as it can reduce the server bandwidth and required resources.

Below this is a panel (closed by default) which you can open by clicking on the

disclosure triangle to the left of Submitting your sitemap to reveal a list of internet

search engines and some options for submitting the file – which will be covered later.

Leave this panel closed for now.

Finally, there is an option to submit a Yahoo URL list, which will create another file

(called urllist.txt). This does a similar job to a Sitemap file, but is specific to Yahoo.

This is best left switched on unless you have good reason for doing otherwise.

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