What's with the amp;amp;amp;amp; etc etc etc in the url??

[Stompit]

Hi Folks,
  I am using an online site mapper to generate a google compatible sitemap.  While I am watching it running there are some seriously weird url's going on.

One such entry is an album page, the inital url looks fine:

http://www.domain.com/index.php?mact=Al ... 58&page=58

the next entry seems to throw in an amp;

http://www.domain.com/index.php?mact=Al ... 58&page=58

the folowing entry contains yet another

http://www.domain.com/index.php?mact=Al ... 58&page=58

and another, and another, and another...

this goes on 506 times!!

Any ideas on what may be going on?

Thanks Folks

Duncan

[klenkes]

Hi Duncan.

To tell you the truth: I don't know either, but it happened to me too.
I used www.xml-sitemaps.com to generate a sitemap and their script stopped after 500 urls with endless &
In my case it was the newslinks.

Bernd

[Pierre M.]

Hello,

I think the idea behind sitemaps is to give hints to pages which have not yet been discovered (hence not yet crawled). Every link generated by Album, news, search, etc is not a URL to a unique page and should not be in a sitemap. Tune your robots.txt accordingly to exclude such requests.

Pierre M.

[Stompit]

Thanks for the replies, will continue to try and find out what its all about   Google is starting to fuss now, doooo.

I'll see if I can fine tune the robots file as suggested.

Thanks Again
  D

[WebGirl]

Hi Duncan,

I am using an online site mapper to generate a google compatible sitemap

If you'd like an xml sitemap for Google, simply use SiteMapMadeSimple:

Extensions » Module Manager - then click S in the menu to see the list, and install - it's perfect. I just found it this week

{site mapper} is for an easy list of pages for your site visitors, rather than for google's purposes.

Hope this makes sense,

Cheers