SEO - Google Sitemaps Explained

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    Google is the most important of the Search Engines. Google
    Sitemaps is a research in web crawling. Google Sitemaps is intended for
    all web site owners, from those with a single web page to companies
    with millions of ever-changing pages. You want Google to crawl more of
    your web pages.

    What is a Google Sitemap?
    In the case of Google Sitemaps, the XML document is syndicated to Google
    and their software uses it to ensure that the pages of your website are
    crawled and indexed.The introduction of Google Sitemaps now
    gives website owners some control over this process. This part of code
    describes one page of a website, so a typical Google Sitemap document
    would contain similar chunks of code for every page contained within
    the website.

    LOCATION - Simply the URL of the web page.It allows you to instruct Google to pay more attention to particular key pages within your website.

    How do I generate a Google Sitemap?

    There are a number of ways to generate a Google Sitemap document for your website.
    How do I submit my Sitemap to Google?

    Whichever method you use to create your Google Sitemaps document, you then need to submit it to Google. First, you should create a Google Sitemaps
    Account (which requires you to have a Google Account). Your Google
    Sitemaps account will also allow you to re-submit your Sitemaps document when you make changes to it.Google Sitemaps give website owners the opportunity to inform Google about all the pages of their website. Both on page Search Engine Optimization and off-page promotion will still be essential. However, sitemaps make sure all your pages are crawled and indexed quickly by Google, and may therefore give you a competitive advantage over those websites that don’t have a Google Sitemap.
     
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  2. giancarlo

    giancarlo Active Member

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    Appreciate the effort.
     
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  3. Aryans

    Aryans Well-Known Member

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    Good information for newbie
     
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  4. dimi

    dimi Peon

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    Just to add that there is a way to re-submit your sitemap and by http request.

    Regards
    Dimi
     
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  5. Bloomtools

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    Good information..........
     
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    nice reading...
     
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    thanks. I was wondering about google sitemaps.
     
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    Very informative.. I just wondering if they crawl my Site Map Page automatically, without sumitting my site map to google?
     
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  9. Mitchelle Johnson

    Mitchelle Johnson Banned

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    Look, your site map can be crawled automatically but slowly and secondly, submission of authenticated sitemap from google is a right way of seo. so submission of your sitemap first in google should be done.
     
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    Thanks Mitchelle for the information, I will do that first :)
     
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    Good information. thanks
     
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    gsitecrawler.com is a good sitemap generator.
     
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