Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Importance of sitemap in promotion of website

Site maps are the pages that contain links to all of the pages on a site. They provide the reader and the crawler one location to access whole site. Search engine spiders find it hard to follow links with java script like mouse over so it’s advisable to keep your links in text. The text links can have keywords rich text but meaningful related to the page content. In case you have a big site I mean number of pages is more you should categorize the links or increase site map pages. Search engines crawls site through links on sites, you just need to submit your website url with them.They will automatically search link by link from your site map. Adding google’s sitemap protocol into CMS automatically sends notification changes to Google regarding any updation made to sitemap and Google uses updated sitemap for indexing.
Hierarchal format is most commonly used sitemap format because it’s simple and easy to read for crawlers. You can take help from sitemap.org; XML-Sitemap.com is an online source available for generating sitemaps. You just need to input your site url it automatically generates xml file for sitemap.Make sure you use text links and If you create a graphic site map, try to make the graphic as small and fast-loading as you can. To make it compact, use few colors and save it as a GIF file.

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