What is a sitemap:
A sitemap is a file that contains the web-site structure. It will primarily contain URLs of different pages or sections of the web-site. You can provide additional information for each URL. It can be in text, HTML, and XML formats.
A text file containing all the URLs of a web-site can be treated as a sitemap. However, using HTML or XML, you can specify more information (change frequency, title, description and similar) about each of the URLs.
A sitemap written in XML for http://www.saLearningSchool.com can be seen at http://www.salearningschool.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap Categories:
- XML sitemap
- HTML sitemap
- Images sitemap
- Video sitemap
- News sitemap
- Text formatted sitemap
- Mobile sitemap
How can you generate a sitemap?
You can do it manually; or you can use web-based or standalone services to generate sitemaps. I created the above sitemap using the servicehttp://www.xml-sitemaps.com . Just put your url there, provide some information about the site contents, then click on Start. Your sitemap will be generated for free with 500 links in it. You can buy and install the Script from http://www.xml-sitemaps.com, and then create sitemaps with unlimited number of URLs. You can also create sitemaps of different types such as Image Sitemap, Video sitemap using the script.
What are Image and Video Sitemaps?
Image sitemaps will contain URLs for images with information about the images.
Video sitemap will contain URLs for videos in your site and information about the videos.
Sitemaps can be very helpful when your site is a very new one, has significant dynamic contents, your Ajax related pages cannot be easily crawled, you have contents that are not linked much or not linked at all.
Why do you need sitemaps?
It can greatly help in your SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Using google webmaster tools, you will be able to upload your sitemap to google.It’s a way to tell google about all of your pages; it is also a protection against the fact that Google Crawler may not find all of your pages.
URL for Google Webmaster:http://www.google.com/webmasters/
In Google webmaster, you can add your sites. You can upload your sitemaps. You can see the result of crawling your sites and sitemaps. You can see errors in your site crawling. You can see the pages indexed by google. You can see the keywords people used to find your site.Also, it will display the top queries.
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