May 24, 2006<\/p>\n
\n In this post, we thought we’d answer a couple of the questions we’ve been seeing in the There are several reasons we ask you to add the Sitemap file. Here are a couple of them:<\/p>\n \n This can happen when both versions of the domain (for instance,
\n Google Group<\/a> lately.\n<\/p>\n\n Why do I have to add my Sitemap file to my Google Sitemaps account? Can’t I just link to it from
\n my site?
\n<\/h2>\n\n
\n submitting a Sitemap file<\/a> lets us know
\n about your site—you can proactively tell us about it rather than wait for us to find it.\n <\/li>\n
\n file has any errors<\/a>,
\n and then you can resubmit the file once you’ve fixed the errors.\n <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n My site is indexed using both the www and non-www versions of the domain. How can I fix this?
\n<\/h2>\n
\n https:\/\/www.example.com\/<\/code> and https:\/\/example.com\/<\/code>) point to the same
\n physical location, and links to your site use both versions of the URL. To tell us which version
\n you want the content indexed under, we recommend you do a 301<\/code> redirect from one version to the
\n other. If your site runs on an Apache server, you can do this using an .htaccess<\/code>
\n file. You can also use a script. Do a Google search for
\n 301<\/code> redirect<\/a>
\n for more information on how to set this up for your site. Note that once you implement the
\n 301<\/code> redirect, it may take some time for Googlebot to recrawl the pages, follow the
\n redirects, and adjust the index.\n<\/p>\n