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WHAT ARE SITEMAPS

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.

HOW CAN I MAKE A SITEMAP

The Sitemap protocol format consists of XML tags. All data values in a Sitemap must be entity-escaped. The file itself must be UTF-8 encoded.

The Sitemap must:
Begin with an opening <urlset> tag and end with a closing </urlset> tag.
Specify the namespace (protocol standard) within the <urlset> tag.
Include a <url> entry for each URL, as a parent XML tag.
Include a <loc> child entry for each <url> parent tag.

Sample XML Sitemap

The following example shows a Sitemap that contains just one URL and uses all optional tags. The optional tags are in italics.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<url>
<loc>http://www.example.com/</loc>
<lastmod>2005-01-01</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.8</priority>
</url>
</urlset>
More information can be found at this link
http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php

personally i used coffeecup sitemapper software to do mine with does the work for you

Cool! this should be helpful for some ppl

some programs will even do the work for you lol so you just enter the details & send

That IBP software you gave me works well! Atleast for submissions it does wonders lol Nice find!

cool u can set it to do it auto ie maybe once a month or just do it manually also dont do an update seems to screw up the cough short cut if ya get me drift lol

haha.. yeah I got it

cool LoL

I have used sitemap.They are an additional tool to help the search engines when they crawl a site.It is is no requirement for any sitemap and your pages will get indexed without them if you pay close.Sitemaps are a way to tell Google about pages on your site we might not otherwise discover.

Very nice informative information about site maps. Specially I liked How can I make a site map topic. You described it in a very easy and understandable manner so everyone can understand it very easily.

Sitemaps is a service that allows webmasters to submit an XML map of their site containing information such as change frequency, priority, date created and more.