Sitemaps????

did anyone else have trouble with seting up sitemaps? i'm no coder so i don't know what i'm doing and I read things like "make a space-delimited text file" in googles sitemap tutorial/template and i feel helplessly lost.



does anybody know any good sites the speak in laymen's terms?

thanks

 

I would first just make a regular sitemap on your website. That will help you for all 3 search engines. As for Google sitemaps, I just gave it to my coder and said "get er done".

-D

 

what is a regular site map?

 

search around for a "Sitemap generator"...you can find them for free...a regular sitemap works for all three engines, although google prefers one in xml...you can find an xml generator for free as well...

 

ok i have that done, but what is the benefit of having a sitemap on my site as a visable link?

 

This is one of the best script I have ever used. It makes sitemaps in xml html, and txt http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
I know the person who owns this script is some where here, hope he can help you more.
You can submit the txt to yahoo and xml to google. This script does all 3 for you at the same time and worth the money.

Hope this helps you.

 

Again but what is the point of having a visable site map on your website, does it help with SEO?

 

I'd recommend also having a link to the main pages of your site, this helps a bit.

 

a link from the .xml site map file??

 

An HTML sitemap helps with getting pages indexed because some search engines will use that to look at your site. If you have a Google sitemap, that helps Google index your site faster. You can find tools to create Google sitemaps at code.google.com/sm_thirdparty.html, and many are free.

 

there are 2 thing is important in sitemap 1- url location
2- url set
for example-

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84">
- <url>
<loc>http://www.xyz.com/index.php</loc>
</url>
- <url>
<loc>http://www.xyz.com/order/aboutus.php</loc>
</url>
</urlset>