How to create a sitemap?

How would I create a sitemap? Is there a specific name of the file? Are there any guidelines to follow while creating it?

 

Give this site a try:

http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

 

What is a sitemap?
A site map is one page or sometimes a set of pages, which lists all, or most of the pages on a web site.

What type of file is a sitemap?
A true sitemap has an xml extension. Example “Sitemap.xml”

What program can I use to create a sitemap file?
Any standard text or program editor program.

Here is the basic layout and format of a sitemap file. I know that this is a quick tutorial, but the example that you see here is the same that I use for my website and it is Google approved.

What are you going to put into your sitemap file?
You will enter most or all of your most important web page links from your website. Example;

Index.html
about.html
YourCategoryPage.html
YourArticle.html

OK, to the point!!

1. Open your favorite text editor.

Add the following line at the beginning of the page, without the quotes. This line will tell your web browser what type of file it is viewing.

“<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>"

2 . Now add the following line bellow, without the quotes.
“<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9
http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd">”

3. Now add your website links, without the quotes.
“<url>
<loc>http://www.yourdomainname.com/index.html</loc>
</url>”
“<url>
<loc>http://www.yourdomainname.com/about.html</loc>
</url>”
“<url>
<loc> http://www.yourdomainname.com/YourCategoryPage.html</loc>
</url>”
“<url>
<loc> http://www.yourdomainname.com/YourArticle.html</loc>
</url>”

4. Now close your code with the following tag
“</urlset>”

5. Save your sitemap.xml file to your web hosting service.

Now visit, http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ to validate your sitemap.xml file. If you sitemap returns no errors, you have created the perfect sitemap file.

If you do not have a Google Webmaster Tools account, I would advice you sign up for it. Add your site map link, http://www.yourdomainname.com/sitemap.xmll to Google site map tools to have your sitemap index with Google.

 

I used a script to generate the sitemap.
I think there are a lot of good free scripts available.

 

yes i would recommend the same

 

You can create it from Google webmaster tool. No need any bulder, u can see some exmple file in xml format. just make a text file and name it sitmap.xml or any.xml then past the script from the example, edit it by your site name and page name. then uploaded it

 

We are using gSiteCrawler to handle the creating of the XML Sitemaps. DP also has a great section on this topic.

 

these all provide sitemap, you submit only ur site URL
1) xml-sitemaps.com
2) tools.webmasters.sk/sitemap-creator.php
3) sitemapbuilder.net
4) sitemapspal.com

 

if you have your pages stored in a mysql database and your site is big, and you don't want to do it manually, then you can make a trick with php.
in your .htaccess file add "AddType application/x-httpd-php .xml"
create a sitemap.xml file
your .htaccess will tell server to understand .xml as .php
in your sitempa.xml write a query in php and echo articles urls as a xml site list (agood example is given by karnetics at #3)
good luck!

 

Thank you

I'm also interested in this issue

 

There are several free sites that will do this for you. I will see if I can find this one site I always used to use.

 

There are two different sitemap types. one is HTMl sitemap and another is XML sitemap. If you are talking about xml sitemap then use the following format.
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd">

<url>
<loc>http://www.yoursite.com/</loc>
<priority>1.0</priority>
<lastmod>yyyy-mm-dd</lastmod>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
</url>

<loc>http://www.yoursite.com/page1.html</loc>
<priority>1.0</priority>
<lastmod>yyyy-mm-dd</lastmod>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
</url>
</urlset>

 

Thank you everybody who replied - but this thread be shifted to Google -> Sitemap section

 

Try this one, it can easy to Generates Site map pages xml-sitemaps.com.

 

Try to use this sitemap generator http://sitemapfree.com/

 

sitemapfree.com is limited to 2000 pages , xml-sitemaps.com is 500 pages!
i have a site more the 5k pages,where i can get the free sitemap generator ?
thanks!

 

Try this tool...
http://www.makeasitemap.com/

 

use Google webmaster tool

 

Is a good one I have used it before.

 

If I have an iframe on my website, should it be included in the site map? Thanks