I've got an idea that might work - that is, to make a site map that covers the counties located on idgenweb.org. I'll do some testing first and then give it a try. Mike -------------------------------------------------- From: "Mitch Ryder" <williamcdf@aol.com> Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 8:58 PM To: "IDGENWEB Mail List" <idgen@rootsweb.com> Subject: [IDGEN] Search Engine Effectiveness > Come to think of it, I submitted a sitemap for the Archives and it didn't > work well as each county in a sub-folder is NOT a domain. Even though > nearly 400 pages were indexed and Google accepted the sitemap, Google's > crawler pointed to many of the sub-folders and NOT the pages in them. > There may be a work around. Maybe not. > > Bottom line ... as CCs, I don't think we can submit sitemaps for our > counties because they are not domains. They are sub-domains, if that is > the correct term. > > Mitch