Drupal Sitemaps

Because this domain was bought and used for a while for development and testing for all kinds of things its got continual search bot traffic to those old urls. Some of them I do not want to delete and force a 404 to get rid of.

A couple of google gadgets and other things I'd like to keep. But the robots are not searching the new content they are continually pulling things that will never change.

A sitemap.xml file would help as the fact that those pages would not be listed should get them to give more attention to the newer / real content.

It would not be to hard to create a sitemap generator but still more work than I want to do tonight so installing XML sitemap instead.

An easy install and configuration except I do not know how it calculates the changefreq for any certain pages. There is a setting for the front page but currently do not see any way to alter node change frequencies from within the config. (Priority is available when creating or editing content but not change frequency)

After setting up run cron to generate the sitemap and submit to wherever you wish. (I'm just worrying about google right now)

Submitted to google webmaster tools (click for larger)