How to submit Google Sitemap
The Sitemap Protocol allows you to inform search engines about URLs on your websites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap that uses the Sitemap Protocol is an XML file that lists URLs for a site. The protocol was written to be highly scalable so it can accommodate sites of any size. It also enables webmasters to include additional information about each URL (when it was last updated; how often it changes; how important it is in relation to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.
Sitemaps are particularly beneficial when users can’t reach all areas of a website through a browseable interface. (Generally, this is when users are unable to reach certain pages or regions of a site by following links). For example, any site where certain pages are only accessible via a search form would benefit from creating a Sitemap and submitting it to search engines.
Here are 4 simple steps to create sitemap online
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Enter your full website URL and some optional parameters from http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/.
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Press ‘Start’ button and wait until the site is completely crawled (the progress will be indicated)
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You will see the generated sitemap details page, including number of pages, broken links list, XML file content and link to a compressed sitemap. Download the sitemap file using this link and put it into the “public_html/” folder of your site.
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Go to your Google Webmaster account and add your sitemap URL.
Please check About Sitemaps for more details.
Note Google Webmaster will require you to verify your account by either add a meta tag or upload a html file to your server.
