Is there a conflict between the sitemap plug-in and a sitemap page?

I use the Google/Yahoo sitemap plug-in, but I also have a sitemap page, http://www.thefloorpro.com/website_map.php. Could this cause any conflict with Google or Yahoo, or is this just another web page to them? I did it for my visitors who prefer browsing using a page like this for their navigation and to bring attention to the various pages on my site to other search engines.

I didn't waste my time, did I?

Thanks for your comments.

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No, I don't submit it as a sitemap anywhere, it's just a page on my site that can be found through the various navigation throughout the site (in the navbar, the navigation module and on the footer nav). It will, however, be included in the sitemap generated by the vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap tool. That okay?

Hello,
I'm done with Jim (eJM) and any information i ever gave him.

sorry if this effects you if you had the same question. This man is no longer worth my space on these forums.

Thank him for this dis-service.

The page can be set not to be accessible by any usergroup through the VBA CP, but that would defeat its purpose, which is to give visitors an alternative navigation method. Maybe I should deny access to it by Google and Yahoo only via the .htaccess file? Anyone know the code I should write for that?

Thanks,

Just add it to your robots.txt exclusions with the rest:

/index.php?page=blah

Oops, I meant the robots.txt file. I added this to exclude Google (there are a number of exclusions under Google user-agent):

Code:

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /website_map.php

I added this to exclude Yahoo, but don't know if the user-agent is correct:

Code:

User-agent: Slurp
Disallow: /website_map.php

The location of the file is as described in my OP, domainroot/website_map.php and the location of my robots.txt file is domainroot/robots.txt (as it should be).

Thanks.

You can just use * for the User Agent, then you won't have to worry about a mismatch.

But that would disallow all search engine spiders and I don't want to do that. The only search engines that benefit from the vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator are Google and Yahoo, correct? So if my other search engine visitors can benefit from my website_map.php file I would not want to disallow them.

What is the official user-agent name for Yahoo's search spider?

Thanks,