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garygoh
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#1 · Posted: 22 May 2009 02:35
Hi All
I am currently managing several websites but none of them have a site map. Just wondering is it important to have one? How would it affect my websites as some of my websites are currently having a PR3.
For your information, all my websites are organized in a "flat structure" manner
Thanks for your advice.
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#2 · Posted: 22 May 2009 16:03
Hi Gary,
It helps spiders index your pages.
If you have many pages, it can work like a table of contents for human visitors.
If you have several dozen pages or more, I suggest creating a site map.
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cherie27
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#3 · Posted: 25 Jun 2009 21:40
Try this website to create your sitemap
http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
It is simple and easy.
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GlennELee
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#4 · Posted: 27 Jun 2009 22:39
Sitemaps basically help the search engines know where your content is. It's extremely helpful for them to have them and can cause your website you're attempting to promote to get indexed that much quicker and better if you have one. Also there may be places on your site that wouldn't normally get indexed by Google's spider, one of the first places that Google does check is the sitemap provided you have one tethered with your igoogle account.
I'd recommend going to www.igoogle.com and logging in with your google account. From there you'll need to add your domain name and verify that you own the domain name. From there, it'll ask you to verify via either an HTML file or a meta tag on your index or root of your server. Do this then tell Google to verify the domain name. Once done, you'll have it set.
You'll then be able to have google set up with your XML sitemap file in order to index your sitemap. This does seriously help with SEO purposes and is strongly recommended for most sites to have them that have a dozen or more pages to index.
Also if you haven't done so, if there are places on your site that you don't want Google to index, you'll want to set a robots.txt file on the root of your server (Usually Public_HTML) so that you can have some stuff left private out of searches.
Hope this information was informative enough to help you out making the decision you need to make and help you do what you need to should you decide to get the sitemap done.
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Just2EZ
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#5 · Posted: 4 Feb 2011 21:34
Of all the advice on how to get traffic on this forum, this one is rarely mentioned.
A sitemap.xml submitted to Google is the single best first step,
then ping any new pages and update your sitemap.xml file if it changes.
A sitemap.html version is helpful for visitors, or an xml reader for them.
You can get a lot more mileage from your visitors if they have a map.
Another trick is to re-direct "404 File Not Found" to sitemap.html
Even if they don't find what they were looking for they might find something they like.
You can create a custom sitemap.html with pictures and ads.
By the way, pictures get indexed too and may bring more traffic than words.
You can exclude file types or directories in your robots.txt file if you want to hide them.
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loner44
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#6 · Posted: 30 Aug 2011 09:16
definitely create and submit an XML sitemap for major search engines. you can do it manually or with onpage SEO tools like website auditor
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kane1976
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#7 · Posted: 22 Sep 2011 04:29
Having a sitemap on your website is highly recommended, as it enables google and other search engines to quickly discover and index any new pages that you have added to your website.
It also enables visitors to quickly find what their looking for on your website.
If you have not got a sitemap added, then make that your next job.
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PeterFrosen
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#8 · Posted: 30 Nov 2011 16:20
make sure you create and submit an xml sitemap to Google webmaster tools and you'll see your content get ranked pretty fast on the SERPs
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sunnyblue
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#9 · Posted: 4 May 2012 05:58
If you use sitemap on your website then it help in fast indexing in search engines so you must use xml sitemap for better seo.
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