SitemapsWHAT IS A SITEMAP & WHY DO I NEED ONE?A sitemap is a single webpage that is added to your site for search engine optimization purposes. In a nutshell, a sitemap is an outline of the pages in your website. Organized in an hierarchal fashion, the sitemap contains links to each page on your site. These embedded links are in place to enable search engine spiders to access and index each page easily. In 2005, Google introduced the practice of creating sitemaps in xml files, arranged in a specific format. After the sitemap is posted to your site, Google is notified of its whereabouts. Google then downloads the xml file and updates their index of your site based on the information provided in the sitemap. They review your sitemap monthly to stay on top of recent updates you may make to your site during the month. The sitemap allows you to notify Google directly of all updates to your site. Because you want your site to be indexed by Google quickly and accurately the sitemap is a wonderful tool. If you have a sitemap on your site you won’t have to wait and hope for spiders to crawl your pages--you‘re assured they‘ll do so monthly. Fortunately, Google is not the only search engine who accepts the submission of sitemaps. Yahoo and MSN also support and utilize the implementation of sitemaps. Good news for optimizing your website! Sitemaps are another great way we can help your site climb to the top of the search engine results. Department: Marketing Author: Pools System Date: May 09, 2007 |
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