Hello fellas, I am new to the thing called sitemap, just wanted to know what is a sitemap and what is its purpose, how can it help me as a website owner? Thanks in advance.
Sitemap is a file containing links to your site and you send him to google for the publication in the search engine good luck bro
It's a one page source file usually a .xml that google will read to find out all the pages on your website. I use one for each of my websites.
Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In other words, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional meta data about each URL so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.
sitemap consists of all the links of ur site! you submit it to google/search engines to get ur all links indexed!
manu may i ask a question...how long that the Search engine index our sitemap coz i do sitemaps but till now i check on webmaster tool it is only 1 URL indexed by goolge..
It is hard to explain everything about Sitemap. You may refer wiki for sitemap or just Google it http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=what+is+Sitemap&aq=f&aqi=g6&oq=&fp=8bd4816e1661ba1a @suwi: there is no fix time frame. It may take few days or few months. Kailash
You may check this sitemaps article. It briefly explains and shows code of all common sitemap file types including XML Sitemaps. It also contains links, so you can read more about the sitemap file kinds should you want to.
xml. It is website code in hyper-speed! Like html but more efficient. You can actually build xml websites that are super-fast. But that is what it is..... xml. Just a basic road map of your website for spiders and stuff to index your pages. You don;t have to have one if your site is written in html. If it is .php like Wordpress, you should have it. Wordpress has plugins that create one on autopilot. I used to build sites by hand. I am sold on Wordpress. My only argument is that you have to stay inside the box most of the time, unless you understand .php code, which I do. I used to use e107, but Wordpress has much better plugins for SEO that work automatically. The less I have to mess with it, the better.
Please check any term that you don't know or don't understand well on Wikipedia before asking to someone else. I believe you can get a very detailed explanation there.
A web page which contains a list of links to every page in the site and every page contains a text link back to the site map. Or And we can also define this as A site map is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users
Sitemap is just like a link directory for your website itself, google maybe didn't crawled your site url thoroughly, but if you create sitemap and submit it to search engine, it will enable search engine to know your site better
What are Sitemaps? Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site. 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. Using the Sitemap protocol does not guarantee that web pages are included in search engines, but provides hints for web crawlers to do a better job of crawling your site.
Sitemap is an XML file containing a collection of your site links. Its used by search engines to detect and index your site pages.