What is sitemap?
In easy word, sitemap is a list of all the pages of a website accessible to crawlers or users. A sitemap lists pages in a structural order. There are two popular version of a sitemap. One of them is (.xml) version that users cannot read. It tells the search engines about pages of a website. The other is (.html) version that helps visitors and search bots to locate pages on a site.
How to make a sitemap?
If you have a blogger blog, you dont need to make a sitemap. If you own a self hosted website or blog, you need to make an xml sitemap to submit it to Google searchengines. You can make an xml sitemap in a few minutes though you have no idea about it. Follow the steps to do it.
Step 1: Go to http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
Step 2: Enter URL in the box after http:// , change frequency to Always and let everything remain default. Now click on Start button. It will begin creating sitemap for your website. You can look Please wait. Sitemap generation in progress... It may take a few minutes.
Step 3: When the sitemap is created. you have to download (.xml) and (.html) version of Sitemap.
How to submit website to search engines?
Blogger Blogs: As I said before, we need not create sitemap for Blogger Blog. Blogger automatically creates sitemap. To submit site to google, follow the steps bellow:
Other Sites: You have to upload the sitemap.xml to root folder of your website.
Step 1: Open file manager > Go to root folder or click on / mark.
Step 2: Click on Upload button and upload the sitemap.xml file. Be certain, you dont rename the file.
As you have uploaded the file to root folder of your website, you can look the file here at http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml. Now you are ready to submit your site to google and other search engines.
Follow the steps to submit sitemap to google and other search engines:
Step 1: Go to Google Webmaster Tool . > Click on your websites URL
Step 2: Click upon Sitemaps > Click ADD/TEST SITEMAP red button upon the right.
Step 3: Write sitemap.xml in the bin that will lookhttp://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml > and click upon blue button Submit Sitemap > Click upon Refresh the page. Now Everything is done.
In the similar way, you can submit your site to Bing. Go to Bing webmaster tool, Bing Webmaster Tool to submit sitemap.
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