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I want to show a sitemap in google's search result. Like - when you search for "cnet" in google, it shows the result of www.cnet.com with a sitemap of some links. something like this-
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I want to do this for my site too. my site is celebratinglifebd.com. I have added/varified the site to google webmaster central. I have generated a xml sitemap and successfully added to google webmaster central(http://www.celebratinglifebd.com/sitemap.xml). it shows empty for "URLs in web index". everything seems okay, but it is not showing the sitemap in search result. I am searching with "celebrating life" and it comes up in 1st page at number 8. i have generated the sitemap from - http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/.
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“Sitemap could not be read” often mean that Google just hasn't fetched the file. You can reload the page, or try to check the sitemap in the URL Inspection Tool.
Over time, Google's systems will stop trying to use that particular sitemap file. Note: removing a sitemap file doesn't prevent crawling of the URLs that were specified in the sitemap file. A sitemap file helps us to crawl more efficiently though, which is generally why we recommend using it.
If you want to "hide" your sitemap you could have it on a URL with a "secret" name so it's not obvious to anyone who may be looking for it, but seeing as it's best practice to include a sitemap in a robots.
I think this article explains it very well: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47334
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