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How to Create a Google Friendly Sitemap


Having a Sitemap on your website can help the search engines more easily index your content. This can help to improve your search engine rankings.

 

Here's how to do it.

 

1. Visit www.xml-sitemaps.com.

2. Enter your domain name, leave the other options at their default, then click "Start".

3. A valid XML Sitemap will be generated.

4. Download the file and save it to your computer.

5. Use your FTP client to upload the sitemap into the www root of your server account.

 

Now you need to tell Google that it's there.

 

1. Visit Google Webmaster Central.

2. Sign in or create an account.

3. Verify your ownership of the site by uploading an html file provided by google or by adding a meta tag.

4. Under Site Configuration, click on Sitemaps, then "Add a Sitemap'.

5. From here you can tell Goolge where you placed your xml sitemap.

6. Within a few days, the Googlebot will come check out your site using your sitemap.



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