Creating a site map

[Donnyb]

I used Create your Google Sitemap Online - XML Sitemaps Generator to create a site map for my website.
I also have a 301 redirect in place to redirect index.html to my root domain.
The weird thing is when I make a html site map, the index and the root domain name still show up as two pages.
Is this normal?
Should I worry about google seeing this as duplicate content when the redirect works fine?
Thanks in advance

 

[jamesvick]

301 redirect is not understood by sitemaps. Its a technology for search engines and browsers only. Sitemaps include each and every page of your website. So it is normal.

No google will not treat this as a duplicate content. Google does not cache all the files from the sitemap. Its not that simple. Sitemaps are used to get indexed not cached. Duplicate content is only a worry when the documents are cached. Since you are 301 redirecting your index, it wont be cached when spider visits your site. So no worries....

 

[computergames]

A1 Sitemap Generator (as with most other sitemappers) will recognize redirects...

A1SGl also defaults to recognize example.com/index.html as duplicate of example.com/ even without a redirect (this behavior can be disabled in the few cases where the two URLs actually are unique)

 

[richardcrish]

site map

I also want know how to create site map, i know about 301 search engine little.

 

[computergames]

You can try check this list of XML sitemap tutorials create, upload, submit and ping (one for each)