TechJaw’s Sitemap Tips
Wake up the Googlebot and Build a Sitemap!
Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow crawlers that support Sitemaps to pick up all URLs in the Sitemap and learn about those URLs using the associated metadata.
The more pages you have indexed in Google the better the chance people will find your site based on the content or keywords you provide.
Sitemaps are particularly helpful if:
Your site has dynamic content.
Your site has pages that aren’t easily discovered by Googlebot during the crawl process - for example, pages featuring rich AJAX or Flash.
Your site has a large archive of content pages that are not well linked to each other, or are not linked at all.
It’s easy using Google Webmaster Tools
Create a sitemap.xml file and upload it to your root directory
Create an account with Google if you have not already
Go to My Account
Go to Webmaster Tools
Add a site www.yourdomainname.com
Verify your site
There are 2 methods for verification:
1. Upload a file to your root directory where your index.html, index.htm or index.php pages are
2. Add the meta tag provided by Google between the
Once you’ve created and verified a site using Google Sites, your Sitemap has been already created for you. All you need do is submit it in the normal way.
To find out more about sitemaps go to http://www.sitemaps.org/
Happy crawling!
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I have used sitemap earlier based on some other posts tips, but not using google sitemap creator. But, noticed that none of my post got scrawled by google bot and cannot detect it in google search at all. When I removed it, it can be detected. I’m not so sure why is this happen to my blog. I will try using the sitemap again with your guidance, hope it will be crawled.
Hi,
Googles xml sit-map is nice. But, I prfer to build my own sitemaps for three reasons:
1. I have full control of the content of the sitemap
2. I can determin the order of the links
3. I can write nice anchortext’s and write additional text with keywords
Have you tried the google sitemap wordpress plug in. It allows guys like me who suck at code to pretend to be smart by adding a sitemap in minutes without knowing anything about code. I got my sitemap submitted in minutes and it was verified in about three days with 40 of my 70 urls indexed. Found it on the wordpress.org site. Very cool.
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I usually make my own sitemap, other auto sitemap generators delivers a messy code, not sure, i havent tried all of them.