You may not be aware of how important a sitemap is to your website, early on a sitemap was nothing more than a map or listing of links to navigate you through the site, especially if you had a site with dozens of pages.
Today I’m going to share some SEO Tips that might give you some insight on what a sitemap can do for your website and how to create one.
One of the main purposes for a sitemap is to make it easier for the search engine bots to crawl and find your site. These bots, by using the sitemap can easily find your site and read the contents, categorize, crawl and index regularly to keep the site in there database. So when someone goes to a search engine and types in a search criteria, the search engine will be able to quickly reference the data and display the best results possible.
Now I want to switch gears and talk about how to create a sitemap, and like I said before just a few years ago you could manually create this sitemap and post it as a page on your website, now you can automate this process and create an xml file and upload it to your website. I’m going to use Google for my example, which by the way is a good one to use since they own over half the market. Here are a couple of sites that I use to generate sitemaps, xml-sitemaps.com or freesitemapgenerator.com there are dozens out there, just find one that you are comfortable with. All you do is goto one of these sites type in your URL and follow the instructions, just that simple. If you are using word press or something similar, check the plugins to see if they offer a sitemap plugin, I know from experience that word press does offer this. Once the sitemap is created you either copy and paste some code into your site and or upload a file to the server and your done.
I have a couple new sites that I have just recently put on the web and these practices worked great, I would not have a website without a sitemap, its almost a requirement in today’s SEO practices. Hope you got some good SEO Tips out of this and hope you well on your site creation.
Author: Gannon Faul
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