Geo sitemaps

I am looking for some help importing a KML file into a geo sitemap.

Does anyone have experience creating a geo-sitemap?

Thanks

M.A.D did a case study. You'll find it here: http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/white-hat-seo/197125-google-map-case-study.html

I'm trying to stay away from that forum...

lol you're on that forum... unless by forum you mean topic of conversation, in which case i have no idea what you're talking about.

renta said:

I am looking for some help importing a KML file into a geo sitemap.

Does anyone have experience creating a geo-sitemap?

Thanks

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Have a go with this tool provided by Google.

http://kml-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/interactive/index.html#./Point_Placemarks/Point_Placemarks.Simple.kml


By the way if you already have a KML file you then you need to create another seperate sitemap for it.

So as well as your normal sitemap listing your pages, you'll have another one listing geographical locations.

for your geositemap.xml all you need is this code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:geo="http://www.google.com/geo/schemas/sitemap/1.0">
<url>
<loc>http://www.yoursite.com/yourkmlfile.kml</loc>
<geo:geo>
<geo:format>kml</geo:format>
</geo:geo>
</url>
</urlset>