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What are sitemaps

Discussion in 'Google Sitemaps' started by Adinosway, Mar 9, 2010.

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    I really do not know about google sitemap or do i know how to use. i will really appreciate it if I can get a Little bit of tutorials on it in the house.
     
    Adinosway, Mar 9, 2010 IP
  2. CJ.Online

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    Sitemaps are actually pretty simple. They do exactly what the name says they do. They map out your site so that google bots know where to start searching once on your site. If you do not have a sitemap, it's not the end of the world but it just might take google a little bit longer to find your sites pages. A lot of websites on the internet do not have sitemaps so don't worry about it too muc. If you understand html, then google, "how to create a sitemap". But if you do not, then google, "automatic sitemap generator." Hopefully that helped!
     
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    youssefedwardsaber Active Member

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    sitemaps is a list of URLs inside a site. it is needed if there are URLs that are diificult to be discovered normally by the search engines
     
    youssefedwardsaber, Mar 10, 2010 IP
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    Sitemap is used by search engine to index your content faster.
     
    VinCme, Mar 10, 2010 IP
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    There are some online generators that will automatically crawl your website and add your pages to a sitemap file for you. Some of them will give you sitemap.xml, sitemap.html, urllist.txt(yahoo), and a few other formats. Then you can just upload them to your site, and tell google in google webmaster tools that you have a sitemap.xml and where to find it. This one is pretty popular http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ but it has a limit of 500 pages it will add for you for free. If you have more than 500 pages they want you to purchase their pay version. But once you have the free sitemap files you can look at them and get a better understanding of what tags go into a sitemap. There is also a google sitemap validator to check the file to make sure it is valid format for google.
     
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    When I deal with clients we normally look at both HTML and XML maps. The HTML sitemap is the kind of sitemap that will be viewed by people (ie not web crawlers or searchbots). Its more of a usability thing. We also use the XML sitemaps site mentioned above for some sites as this is the one I prefer using, but there are others available (including downloadable free versions). For any SEO project on a new website you should always have a sitemap. It's surprising how many sites omit this during their construction.
     
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    websitetools Well-Known Member

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    You can get started with this XML sitemaps tutorial (how to create, upload, submit and ping sitemaps)
     
    websitetools, Mar 19, 2010 IP
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    I would not say Google SiteMap Rather Better to Say Sitemap for Search Engine.
     
    tata_capl, Mar 21, 2010 IP
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    google sitemap is basically to inform search engines about all of our blog content to be in the index, (perhaps like that)
     
    dedha, Apr 9, 2010 IP
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    sitemap is an additional tool that helps the search engines to crawl the site easily..........
     
    benivolent, Apr 10, 2010 IP
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    With a sitemap you help Google find your urls and deep URLS easier, this will improve your number of crawled and indexed pages. You can set a couple of variables as priority and update frequency.

    Looking for an easy to use Google valid XML sitemap generator? try www.xml-sitemaps.com Great tool only it is limited to 500 urls (free).

    Good luck.
     
    rwin2007, Apr 10, 2010 IP
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    sitemap is a path to your all files .it helps google to crawl your site and as well as your visitors to browse your site.
     
    cafe4fun, Apr 11, 2010 IP
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    sitemaps help crawlers such as google bot to visit all your page and get indexed.
     
    syntaxerrorlagi, Apr 15, 2010 IP
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    sitemaps help crawlers such as google bot to visit all your page and get indexed.
    sitemaps help crawlers such as google bot to visit all your page and get indexed.
     
    rocksam, Apr 16, 2010 IP