How to Add a Dynamic Sitemap to Your Site

April 23, 2008 Edit: This mod is for Build A Niche Store (BANS) sites that are v1 or v2 only. BANS v3 includes a dynamic sitemap so there is no need to add this mod to v3+ sites. You can help Google index your site by submitting a sitemap to them. The sitemap below is a dynamic sitemap, which means...

How to Add your Dynamic Sitemap to your site’s robots.txt

You can add your dynamic sitemap’s location to your robots.txt. The reason to do this is so you can tell the search engine/spider where your sitemap.xml file is. This may help index your site quicker. This idea comes from forum member WebMogul. You can see his instructions here.   My...

How to Add A Robots.txt to your site

The brief (and by no means complete) definition of a robots.txt is that it is a document that tells search engine spiders what pages in your site to index and which to ignore. Many people choose to prevent their BANS folders and files from being indexed for several reasons. If they do get indexed...

How to Correct the Size of Auction Images on your Site

The largest width eBay allows for gallery images (the images you see next to most auction results) is 96px. In versions 1x and 2x of BANS image width is 80px (v3x corrects this so you do not need to add this mod to v3 sites). This means many image widths are cutoff, making them look strange and incomplete: Fortunately,...

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