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Let’s discuss a site map (sometimes called a site index). To start, let’s see what Wikipedia has to say about it.

“A site map (or sitemap) is a web page that lists the pages on a web site site, typically organized in hierarchical fash

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

ion. This helps visitors, and search engine bots, to find pages on the site.

Site maps can improve search engine optimization of a site by making sure that all the pages can be found. This is especially important if a site uses Macromedia Flash or JavaS

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

cript menus that do not include HTML links.Site maps do have limitations. Most search engines will only follow a finite number of links from a page, so if a site is very large, additional strategies besides the site map may be required that search engine

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

s, and visitors, can access all content on the site.

While some developers argue that site index is a more appropriately used term to relay page function, web visitors are used to seeing each term and generally associate both as one in the same.”

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

The important topic is the one about search enginge bots (robots or spiders) that crawl your website. It is very important to make it as easy as possible for the spider to search your site. The easier it is for the spider, the more likely you will imp

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

rove your ranking with the search engine.

Both Google and Yahoo have sitemap features associated with them. The requirements of each are a little different so if you maintain your site maps yourself, you will need to know about the differences. When y

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

ou add a page to your site, you will need to update your site map and notify Google and Yahoo of the change so it can schedule a spider to come check your site for the new information.

You can also go to Google and log on to add your site map to their d

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

atabase. Once it is added, you can log in and see when your site was last checked by the spider and if the spider encountered any problems in crawling your site. This is just another of the many functions that you need to perform in order to have a fir

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

st class website.

If you use Site Build It (SBI), it does this automatically each time that you add a page or modify a page to your SBI website. To get the process started. you do have to manually add the site to both Google and Yahoo, but SBI leads yo

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

u through the procedure. SBI will handle the following updates or addition of with Google and Yahoo.

To read the Google explanation about site maps follow this link. ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

">https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/about.html.

To log onto Yahoo and submit your site to the index, go to http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request.

There

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

are some packages for developing and maintaining site maps. You can use Google or Yahoo to find some of these. I have not researched any of these so I will not make any recommendations.

Don’t forget to maintain your site map on your site and no

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

tify Google and Yahoo when you make changes or additions to your site.

Let’s take a look at what the site map looks like for Retirement Jobs Online.com. Click on the link cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

">http://www.retirement-jobs-online.com/gAe7FNB6.xml to see what is in the site map. It is basically a list of the pages in the website.

Here is an example of an entry in the Retirement Jobs Online.com site map.

<xmp><url></xmp>

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

<xmp><loc>http://www.retirement-jobs-online.com/advanced-ebay-education.html</loc></xmp> <xmp><lastmod>2006-07-01T16:04:36-04:00</lastmod></xmp> <xmp><priority>0.5</priority></xmp> &

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

lt;xmp></url></xmp>

Author’s note: If you see the HTML tags xmp and /xmp these are added in this article to tell the browser not to consider what is between them as executable HTML, but rather, print it as text.

The site map is wr

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

itten in XML. The url tag starts the entry. The loc tags specify the URL for the page. The lastmod tags tell the date of the last change to the page. The priority tags specify the priority of this page relative to other pages on the same site. The va

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

lue is a number between 0.0 and 1.0, where 0.0 is the lowest priority and 1.0 is the highest priority. The priority can affect the order that search engines select URLs to explore on your site. Since the priority is relative, it is only used to select be

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

tween URLs within your own site; the priority of your pages will not be compared to the priority of pages on other sites. The /url ends the entry for this page.

Google has a free utility to help create site maps in its webmaster’s section. Go to

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

Google for more information on how to submit your site. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769.

Copyright 2006 John Howe, Inc

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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