Hello there, sorry for flooding you with tone of questions but i want to know how sitemap works exactly. i m facing several problems adding my website. 2 days ago i made a sitemap account and i added my url to it including the xml file which had about 4 errors. i was wondering if google will index the website with those errors or should i submit it again? - any idea how long it takes google to show my website in its search engine? - is there any other way to promote my website other than sitemap? It's just that i've been working for the last 3 weeks on it and i m waiting to see some results. Regards,
You should re-submit your sitemap (google will eventually find it but you may as well get it moving quicker!) It really varies how long it will take your site to show on search engines The best way to get you site up there on search engines is to get large important sites related to your content to link to you. A good way of doing this is to download the google search bar and make sure you click yes when it asks if you want 'google pagerank' - when it's installed you can then see a pages google rank - the higher the better, then get your link on that page! How you do that is another story... Jk
A quick list: Forum and usenet signatures Submit website to directories Write articles and submit them Exchange links with related websites (or get them to link to you, i.e. one-way link)
Maybe try this sitemap generator to make a standard sitemap file for you: www.hkhangfong.com/service.htm , Nobody reports errors for the xml file generated.
I have nearly the same problem. My site is on Blogger.com and i have been told those who use this site cannot send a sitemap to Google. So how can my page get ranked in that case and without ranking no traffic obviously either.