Xml Sitemap for a large automobile website

[razasaeed]

Hello moz fellas, I need expert advice for PakWheels about xml sitemap generation. There are hundreds of thousands of pages (mostly USG) and these are increasing day by day. What is the best practice of controlling all these pages in xml format. Where can we generate sitemap.xml to submit in Google and Bing webmaster tools.

Your input may help us in managing these URLs in an xml format. Thanks

[Matthew_Edgar]

Hi,

Are your pages manually driven or created out a database system? If they are in a database of some kind, you should be able to query for the URLs and generate the XML sitemap. If they aren't able to generate the sitemap to /sitemap.xml file, make sure you put the URL of the sitemap on your robots.txt file. (For example, if the sitemap ends up being sitemap.php instead.)

If they aren't database driven pages or if you developers aren't able to create an XML sitemap for you, I'd recommend this service:

http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/standalone-google-sitemap-generator.html

You can setup a scheduled job on your server to run this on whatever schedule you want. I've used it on a number of client sites where the data drive XML sitemap isn't an option.

Hope that helps.