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A Sitemap for Sore Eyes
Sitemaps have been about for a while. They were originally
created a visual guide to your website. As websites became
larger and more complex webmasters used them as a way to
view the entire structure of a website to find the
connections between pages. Think of them as a kind of
interactive table of contents and index rolled into one.

In recent years the search engines have been viewing site
maps as a good way to index websites and find all the
related content. Google led the charge to make this a
mainstream web tool when it introduced XML sitemaps.
Creating and submitting an XML sitemap to Google is still
the best way to get your website completely crawled by
Google. It has become a standard SEO best practice.

As with many things on the web, Google, Yahoo, AOL, MSN and
Ask all had their own specific way to use and submit
sitemaps in the format they dictated. About six months ago
a couple of these folks joined forces to create a
standardized method of sitemap creation. They formed an
organization called Sitemaps.org and agreed on using the
XML sitemap format.

Sorry for the history lesson, but this is really good news
for small business web site owners because it will greatly
simplify the process of creating and submitting your
sitemap and in doing so enhance your chances of getting
your entire website indexed by all the search engines.

So, in today's article I'm going to tell you how to create
and submit your XML sitemap.

What is a sitemap?

According to Sitemaps.org: "Sitemaps are an easy way for
webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their
sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest
form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site
along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was
last updated, how often it usually changes, and how
important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so
that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site."

Building an XML sitemap

While there are several ways to actually create an XML
sitemap I like XML-Sitemaps.com The good news is that if
you have a rather small site (under 500 pages) you can
simply use their free tool to create an xml sitemap. Over
500 pages and you need to get the $19.95 download.

Getting Your Sitemap found

Once you create your sitemap it's still a good idea to
create a free Google Webmaster account so that you can
submit your sitemap directly to Google Sitemaps

Robots.txt file

Now here's where the coming together of the search engines
gets really nice. Not only will Ask, Google, Yahoo, AOL and
MS Live accept the XML format for your sitemap they have
also decided to accept an easy, auto-discovery method. In
other words you won't have to figure out how to submit to
each as they will find your sitemap if you direct them
using your robots.txt file. A robots.txt file is a very
simple file that resides on your server giving information
for the search engines. Many use this file to tell the
search engines not to find certain information.

If you already have a robots.txt file, you can simply add
the line of code below anywhere to it. If you don't have
one, simply create a file in notepad or other text editor,
add the code below, save it as robots.txt and upload to the
root of your site. (Obviously you need to put the actual
URL of your site in here)

Sitemap: http://www.yourwebsite.com/sitemap.xml

Advanced tip - If you use the paid version of xml-sitemap
generator you can set up what's known as a cron job (it's a
Unix only thing) and have your site crawled on a weekly
basis and update your sitemap. This is really great if you
blog several times a weeks on your domain as it adds your
newest posts. Ask your web host about this one.

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John Jantsch is a veteran marketing coach, award winning
blogger and author of Duct Tape Marketing: The World's Most
Practical Small Business Marketing Guide. You can find more
information by visiting http://www.DuctTapeMarketing.com

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