Wednesday 18 February 2015

SITE MAP


            The site map can be of two types. The XML and HTML. The XML site maps are not for users but for the search engine to understand the pages in the website. The HTML sitemaps are more useful for users to find out the content in the webpage. It also helps the Google bots to analyze the website.

            The site map will help the bots to make the crawling easier. Its only possible to add 500 URL's in a single site map.

             Many websites are available now to make site map of a specified website. www.xml-sitemaps.com is a website to make the site map.

             The first step is to enter the complete URL of the website in the column given in the page of www.xml-sitemaps.com . Do the essential steps and press start. Now its possible to download the XML file of the site map. In the next step upload the XML file to the C panel of the website.

              The final step is to do some steps in the webmaster tools. In Google webmaster tools select Crawl-Site map- Add site map and add the exact URL of the uploaded sitemap.

               Another step is available to get the site map of a website. after the main URL, type "sitemap.xml to get the site map. But it is not applicable for every websites.

A descriptive note on SEO On Page Optimization will be much helpful for a beginner.