I need a Sitemap Pro to help me

I need a LOT of help in the following. Can someone please care to explain this to me.

1. I have a site. How do i make a sitemap for that ?
2. How do i submit this sitemap to Google so that my site can get indexed ?

I would really appreciate if someone can give me a step step link for this so that i can learn as i'm a complete n00b at this.

Ace Tuku

 

i suggest you to try gsitecrawler. it's a free and great program for making sitemap

adding sitemap url to your robots.txt can be ok for you.

just add sitemap:your-sitemap-url to your robots.txt file

 

Sign up at google.com/sitemaps to better manage your sitemaps.

 

I'll second that. I've used gsitecrawler on 170 sites and counting, and it works well.

 

Thanks mate for your help. Am looking at it right now and hope it Really works for me

Ace Tuku

 

Hello There,

I have a WP theme installed on my site. I don't see the Robots.txt file anywher. Can you guide me in locating it and help me in changing it please.

Ace Tuku

 

there must be a txt file on your root folder.

if there is nothink.

create a txt file with robots insert

to this txt file and upload it your root folder

 

Ok thatz done now...so how long do you think it will take to show affect ??

Ace TUku

 

Try sitemapspal.com and follow the instructions, its for google and yahoo.

 

I hope that wont conflict with the one i tried above ?

EDIT : Okay i followed the steps listed on that website

# Type your domain name or the url of your links page into the top form field..
# Press Submit!
# Copy and paste the entire contents of the results form field into a new txt document on your computer or choose to download the file with the tickbox.
# Save this document to your computer as 'sitemapspal.xml'.
# Upload the 'sitemapspal.xml' file to your server.
# Find the url of your uploaded xml file by typing eg 'http://www.yourwebsiteurl.co.uk/sitemapspal.xml' into your browser. You should see a strange list of urls and no error messages.

But i dont see urls rather i get a 404 page not found error. What went wrong. Can anyone care to explain me this.

 

1. use xml-sitemaps.com. or Xenu program gen site map
2. save urllist.txt and sitemap.xml
3. submit to google sitemap (I can't remember url) then ok

 

Go to xml-sitemaps.com to generate sitemaps

Uploaf sitemaps that you generate from xml-sitemaps.com to your host
then go to google sitemaps

Verify you site by add mata tag or upload HTML file to your host
then click verify

Click sitemaps
Click add sitemaps
Add general web sitemap
http:yourdomain.xxx/sitemaps.xml <<< fill sitemaps.xml
click submit
all these you have to do

 

If you have any programming experience generate the sitemap yourself from your databases. Sitemap parsers are hell on your server if you have more than a couple thousand pages.

The format is very simple

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
   <url>
    <loc>http://www.ratefreestuff.com/</loc>
    <lastmod>2007-08-22T20:25:50-09:00</lastmod>
    <changefreq>always</changefreq>
    <priority>1.0</priority>

   </url>  
   <url>
    <loc>http://www.ratefreestuff.com/new</loc>
    <lastmod>2007-08-22T20:25:50-09:00</lastmod>
    <changefreq>hourly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
   </url>
.....
</urlset>

PHP:

 

hi.. being new here, i can also make a helping suggestion:

1) *auditmypc.com/free-sitemap-generator.asp
to easely create the sitemap (without installation etc) and safe it as sitemap.xml

2) *google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/
to submit the sitemap to google

note:.php based sites also need 2 .htaccess rules to make the sitemap and confirmation file accessible for google. i dont have the code in mind yet, but google FAQ helps with that.

 

You can also use www.auditmypc.com they have a nice sitemap generator tool.