Sitemap

[Manwe]

So, I added this nifty little thing that google offers, a small search box on my site that people can use to search through it (here)

Now, when I tried it, I fond that the results it came up with was very outdated, virtually nothing of use came up.
Therfore, I figured that I'd look more into what google offers, and I found this "web developer solution", where I can monitor how google works on my site. This tool made me aware of the usefulness of robots.txt and sitemaps.

To the question;
I've now made two sitemaps, both are correct according to the Sitemap Protocol, but I have no idea which one would profit me the most to use.

See the two sitemaps here:
The first

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/about.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/antivirus.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/bottom.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/contact.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/guestbook.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/index.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/links.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/mangband.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/news.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/nfs.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/xcom.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/english/english-about.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/english/english-antivirus.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/english/english-contact.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/english/english-guestbook.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/english/english-home.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/english/english-links.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/english/english-mangband.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/english/english-news.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/english/english-nfs.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/english/english-xcom.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/german/german-about.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/german/german-home.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/german/german-left.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/norwegian/norwegian-about.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/norwegian/norwegian-left.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/spanish/spanish-about.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/spanish/spanish-left.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
</urlset>

And the second

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>

<!-- ENGLISH -->
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/about.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/antivirus.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/bottom.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/contact.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/guestbook.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/index.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/links.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/mangband.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/news.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/nfs.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/xcom.php</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
<!-- ENGLISH -->

<!-- GERMAN -->
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/about.php?langid=3</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/antivirus.php?langid=3</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/bottom.php?langid=3</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/contact.php?langid=3</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/guestbook.php?langid=3</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/index.php?langid=3</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/links.php?langid=3</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/mangband.php?langid=3</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/news.php?langid=3</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/nfs.php?langid=3</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/xcom.php?langid=3</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
<!-- GERMAN -->

<!-- NORWEGIAN -->
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/about.php?langid=2</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/antivirus.php?langid=2</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/bottom.php?langid=2</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/contact.php?langid=2</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/guestbook.php?langid=2</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/index.php?langid=2</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/links.php?langid=2</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/mangband.php?langid=2</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/news.php?langid=2</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/nfs.php?langid=2</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/xcom.php?langid=2</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
<!-- NORWEGIAN -->

<!-- SPANISH -->
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/about.php?langid=4</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/antivirus.php?langid=4</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/bottom.php?langid=4</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/contact.php?langid=4</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/guestbook.php?langid=4</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/index.php?langid=4</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/links.php?langid=4</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/mangband.php?langid=4</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/news.php?langid=4</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/nfs.php?langid=4</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
 <url>
  <loc>http://thorbear.navhost.com/xcom.php?langid=4</loc>
  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
 </url>
<!-- SPANISH -->
</urlset>

Thanks for all help/advice

[Manwe]

wow, huge response on this one <_<

Anyway, I sent in the second one, and that also seems like the most effective solution (If anyone else read in here and wonder about the same).

[ss-kalm]

........but I have no idea which one would profit me the most to use.........

I think the lack of response is that no-one else has either.

It's not that we are ignoring you, or don't want to help. It's more an ability thing!

[Manwe]

I think the lack of response is that no-one else has either.

It's not that we are ignoring you, or don't want to help. It's more an ability thing!

Which is why I still posted what I came out with as the best solution

[sculptex]

if I had to guess I would have said the first was better as I understood search engines to prefer status urls to dynamic ones.

that said, I also think they prefer shorter paths so maybe that helps the second one?

one minor point, is the english section effectively duplicated in the first one?

a forum such as webmasterworld may be more the place to post this type of question.