Sitemap Info and creating a Sitemap.
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You must have noticed, all books have an index or list of content. What an index is to a book; a sitemap is to a website. In other words a sitemap is a list of pages in a website. It provides an over view of the site at a glance. It consists of all the organized listings of links, from the first to the last in your website. With the help of these links, the website becomes accessible to both users and crawlers. In websites, you even get a link for the sitemap. Site maps are important for search engine optimization. It ensures that all the pages are easily found by the crawler. Generating sitemap for search engines like google, yahoo and bing is different. It is created in .XML or .TXT formats. By doing so, you make it web crawler friendly. This facilitates the web crawler to search and find pages. So, submitting a sitemap to search engines is good way to index all of your web pages. Many tools are available on the web to help you generate your sitemap for free i.e, you may use this link to generate sitemap. Free sitemap generator.Once you generate your sitemap, you need some modifications such as frequency and priority rate. Follow the example how to do it: - Important pages that are required to be crawled regularly. <url> <loc>http://www.seo-free.org/index.html</loc> <priority>1.00</priority> <lastmod>2009-05-24T14:27:14+00:00</lastmod> <changefreq>daily</changefreq> </url> - Pages that don't need to be crawled on regularly basis. <url> <loc>http://www.seo-free.org/about-us.html</loc> <priority>0.50</priority> <lastmod>2009-05-18T00:49:46+00:00</lastmod> <changefreq>monthly</changefreq> </url> To submit the sitemap in google you must have webmaster account. If you do not have one you can make it HERE. Some websites offer free submission of your sitemap to some popular search engines. GENERATE XML SITEMAP FOR FREE If you want search engines not to index your private materials you need Robots.txt file.
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