Which sitemaps to allow for the googlebot?

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5/12/2010 1:44:46 PM
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Which sitemaps to allow for the googlebot?

Hi

I have looked at this page: http://www.mojoportal.com/search-engine-optimization.aspx plus in the Forum, but still have a question about sitemaps.

Which one should I show to the Googlebot?

Reason for asking is:

- Webmaster tools told me that access to sitemap was blocked

- A check on the robots.txt showed this as default in MojoPortal: Disallow: /SiteMap.aspx

- So I allowed access to the SiteMap.aspx

- But on the link above I see that you should upload SiteMap.ashx to webmaster tools

- I guess that's because SiteMap.aspx is for the user and SiteMap.ashx is for the robot - or what?

- That would fit nicely with that I actually have some pages that the user shouldn't see in sitemap, but I would like the robot to find them

Can anyone judge if the right approach is to: Disallow SiteMap.aspx again and to upload SiteMap.ashx to webmaster tools?

Best regards a happy user

Lars

5/12/2010 2:31:54 PM
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Re: Which sitemaps to allow for the googlebot?

Hi Lars,

Yes, SiteMap.aspx is for users and SiteMap.ashx is for google. 

Best,

Joe

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