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Saturday 29 October 2011

Sitemaps for new websites. SEO Basics.

SiteMaps, importance of for new websites.

When you first start a new website, you want the search engines to be able to find you and all the pages you have on your site that are for the pubic to see.

And this is very important from an SEO standpoint too.

The site map is an .xml file and is usually stored in the root of your website. For example, if your website was websiteadministrator.com.au , you should be able to find and view the sitemap.xml by entering  www.websiteadministrator.com.au/sitemap.xml in your web browser. This is what search engines look for they want to know what pages you have on your site. If you do not have this file there, they may or may not find all your pages. So how and where can we get a sitemap?

How and where to get a sitemap.xml for your website
Use this link if you would like help in creating a site map (there are other useful tools on this page too), when the sitemap has been created, you then download the .xml file and then upload it to your directory root (usually the same folder/directory as that of your home page or index.html) at your website. In due course, the file will be found by the search engines.

If you want to be a little more efficient, you can inform google, yahoo and bing that the file is now there. If you know what a robots.txt file is, then add the link in their too! To do this you add a line exactly like:

SITEMAP: http://www.websiteadministrator.com.au/sitemap.xml


This of course is a little different for blogspot websites.

-Fin