Probably every person taking the first steps in the Internet business wants to learn about the many points that precede success. The site was created and filled with useful information, a beautiful menu for the site beckons the visitor to click on the link .... And then what? Months pass, and attendance is still at zero. Many do not know how to fix the situation, try to attract visitors in various ways, try to give the site solidity, learn how to register on the site to prove to users that the resource is serious and still do not succeed. Meanwhile, the path to the heights of success in website promotion should be accompanied by an integrated approach, and the promotion itself will be carried out according to a certain scheme in compliance with the sequence of actions. For example, many webmasters believe that you need to start the promotion with such an important component as a site map that we will try to create today.
What does not everyone can create a site map seems to be known to many site owners. A site map is a separate page on which links to each internal page of a resource are placed.
In most cases, the site map that the owner is trying to create, in his mind, is a tool for creating the convenience of the process of working with the site for the user. This is true, but you need to create a site map immediately after placing the resource on the hosting, which carries the solution to another problem - speeding up indexing by search engines.
To create a site map that was decided specifically for search engines should be done in a certain format - sitemap XML. This format cannot be read by visitors, since the map in this case is an XML file containing a list of all site URLs.
The creation of sitemap XML has the sole purpose of accelerating the indexing of a resource by search engine robots. It often happens that many of the pages on the site are not indexed. This is because search robots simply do not reach the depths of the resource and do not notice the pages located there. A sitemap created in sitemap XML format provides robots with complete information about each page of the site, and concentrated in one place.
Thus, the robots will receive a list of all resource URLs, even those that are difficult to detect with standard crawling. In addition, information will be available to search robots about the frequency with which the pages of the website change. With this approach, robots will have no choice but to look at the site more often, because they will be aware of all the changes.
Based on the foregoing, we can draw a simple conclusion: in order for each page of the site to be indexed, you must create a sitemap XML. It is worth noting that this is not at all difficult to do.
For those sites that have a sufficiently large number of pages, the most appropriate is the use of a specialized service to create a site map. An example of one of the most successful services for creating a site map is an XML resource - Sitemaps.com. instructions for creating a map using this service are outlined below.
1. After the account is created, the address of the site for which the map is created is entered in the Starling URL column.
2. The Chang freguency column introduces the frequency of changes on the resource pages. When adding articles, news, or simply editing content daily, you need to select the Daily item, if this happens once a week, Weekly is indicated, if once a month - Mounthly.
3. The Last modification column is intended to indicate to the system the latest changes that the resource is undergoing. Here you should check the box Use servers personse, that is, use the data provided by the server.
4. The Priority column is intended to indicate the priority of the main page in relation to the rest. Here you must specify Automatic Priority.
5. The Start button is pressed.
6. The topmost map is downloaded - Download un - compressed XML Sitemap.
7. The map must be saved on a computer under the name Sitemap XML.
8. The file containing the site map must be uploaded to the root directory of the resource. In most cases, this is a folder named public.htm.
That's all, the site map is ready!