XML Sitemap Setup

Our suite of webmaster tools provides you with a free and easy way to make your site more spider-friendly. The problem most webmasters have with Site Maps is the submission format. It has been estimated that 90% of the webmasters out there don't know the proper way to compile an XML feed in the format that requests. Our Strategy SEO package offers a detailed process of XML Sitemap setup, optimization and submissions.

What is a XML Sitemap?

A sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site, along with additional information about each URL. Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow crawlers that support Sitemaps to pick up all URLs in the Sitemap and learn about those URLs using the associated metadata.

Importance of XML Sitemaps

Sitemaps give Google and other search engines important information about your website, including:

  1. A complete list of all URLs on your site, including URLs that may not be discoverable by the normal spider crawling process (for example, non-text pages or URLs containing several parameters.)
  2. How often the pages on your site change. For example, you might update your product page daily, but update your About Me page only once every few months.
  3. The date each page was last modified.
  4. The relative importance of pages on your site. For example, your home page might have a relative importance of 1.0, category pages have an importance of 0.8, and individual blog entries or product pages have an importance of 0.5. This priority ranking only indicates the importance of a particular URL relative to other URLs on your site, and doesn't impact the ranking of your pages in search results

Sitemaps are particularly helpful if:

  1. Your site has dynamic content.
  2. Your site has pages that aren't easily discovered by search engines during the crawl process - for example, pages featuring rich AJAX or Flash.
  3. Your site is new and has few links to it.
  4. Your site has a large archive of content pages that are not well linked to each other, or are not linked at all.

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