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Sitemap help!

Discussion in 'Google Sitemaps' started by GoBuckeyes02, Feb 26, 2011.

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    I have a couple questions. First, how do I know if I have a sitemap, does it say somewhere? I have a Wordpress site, so is it automatically built-in? Is it good for getting ranked higher or for getting a higher PR? And lastly, how would I implement one if I don't have it?
     
    GoBuckeyes02, Feb 26, 2011 IP
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    seagate Banned

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    Hiya, A sitemap is very useful! It shows search engines bots where pages are on your site making it easier for them to put your site on search engines. On a wordpress site it is very easy, just go to the plugins section and search "site map" and then get one of the addons , they will update the sitemap whenever you tell it to , and every time there is a new blog post it will update the blog post and tell the search engines "hey come check out the site , its got new content"
     
    seagate, Feb 26, 2011 IP
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    Ahhh alright, thanks a lot! Is it an actual page, or is it something that works in the "back end"?
     
    GoBuckeyes02, Feb 26, 2011 IP
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    Its more of a background file. it is usually .xml format , You can go to www[dot]yoursite[dot]com/sitemap.xml and oyu'd just see a page of links. it is just something for search engines to scan through and say, oooo new pages , new content we'll put that on our search engine
     
    seagate, Feb 27, 2011 IP
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    It is a back end xml file which allows robot to understand what are all the pages available in the site and what is the link between each page so that it can crawl better
     
    gobinathdpi, Mar 1, 2011 IP
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    The wordpress "Google XML sitemap" plugin is a good choice for u.I have used it for years.
     
    Lakado, Mar 2, 2011 IP
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    Yea, it gets the job done!
     
    GoBuckeyes02, Mar 2, 2011 IP
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    What sitemap referring to .HTML or .XML? Anyway, to know if you have this you simply type your URL/sitemap.xml or /sitemap.html
     
    sandraseeves, Mar 8, 2011 IP
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    you have to make a site map and submit it to google. Use xml site maps
     
    rain21, Mar 12, 2011 IP
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    You can check if you have a sitemap or not by typing www.example.com/sitemap.xml, if you have a sitemap in the xml format it will show otherwise you need to create a sitemap in this format and uploaded in the root directory.
     
    unknownpray, Aug 23, 2011 IP