The Easy Way To Create a Google Friendly XML Site Map

Posted on July 26, 2005
Filed Under Announcements, Google Site Maps, Software

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What’s all the fuss about Google Site Maps?

You may be wondering whether it is worth creating a Google Friendly Site Map as well as your html site map. Well it definitely is a good idea to have both.

Think of a site map as a learning tree. Your entire site content forms a unique and comprehensive array of content with links to every page in your web site.

You are not only providing a one-stop method to reach each page to your visitors but also provide the hungry search engine with food to spider your content.

XML Site Maps can be the back door into getting your site indexed by Google. I am not suggesting that you will increase your rankings or will be listed immediately.

However once the XML Site Map is set up in the root, main site of your domain. Google’s Search Engine Spiders can pick up all of your listed pages quickly and efficiently.

Some webmasters have reported that hundreds of their web pages have been indexed by Google. From my own personal experience I have submitted several XML site maps and all have been indexed just 6 days later!

The best and easiest way to create a Google friendly site map is believed or not FREE OF CHARGE to all!

Take the following steps to create your XML Site Map and track indexing of your web sites by Google to view the most current results of your site being indexed.

Step One:
Create a FREE Google Account here…

Once you have provided your email address and password you need to verify your email address by logging into your email inbox and simply click on the link provided by Google. That’s it!

You know have the means to track every XML site map you have created for each of your web sites.

Step Two:
Go to this website to create your XML site map with a few clicks of your mouse. XML Site Maps

Follow the first 3 steps ONLY do not complete step 4 (all will be explained later). online to save your very own site map of each web site to your hard drive.

Once you have uploaded each XML site map to your server go to your "Free Google Account" to submit each of your sites to Google to be queued for indexing.

Currently 500 web pages can be indexed for free at this great web site.
Supports creation of both XML and PHP formats.

The emergence of Google’s newest protocol means webmasters have control over how frequent Google will update your site content by allowing you to set the parameters in the code of your XML site map generating software:

For example:

• Always
• Hourly
• Daily
• Weekly
• Monthly
• Never

        Recommended Resources:
        FREE Broken Web Site Links Checker
        Fix those broken links before submitting your sites(s) to the search engines and
        whenever you are updating your XML and HTML Site Maps.

List of FREE Site Map Generators online:

    1. Arnebrachhold Site Map Generator
    2. Audit My PC Site Map Generator
   3. Block Layer Site Map Generator
    4. Enarion Site Map Generator
    5. Google Site Map Generator
    6. Johannes Mueller Site Map Generator
    7. Sourceforge Site Map Generator
    8. XML Sitemaps Generator (The site referred to in this post)
    9. Vigos Site Map Generator

   P.S.
   I have not had a chance to test the above resources so let me know how you get on with
   them. I have personally used the free automated sitemap creator as described in my
   step by step guide. Works like a dream!

If you know of any more similar sitemap resources add them in the "comments"
field. Thanks again for reading.

   TOP TIP:
"Don’t be coerced into spending $97.00+ for some software to create a site
   map. Get it done the FREE and EASY way"
   Nancy P Redford

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