What is google site map

A sitemap is a file where you can list the web pages of your site to tell Google and other search engines about the organization of your site content. Search engine web crawlers like Googlebot read this file to more intelligently crawl your site.
 
A sitemap is a file where you can list the web pages of your site to tell Google and other search engines about the organization of your site content. Search engine web crawlers like Googlebot read this file to more intelligently crawl your site.
 
An XML sitemap is a document that helps Google and other major search engines better understand your website while crawling it.

What is a sitemap and why is it important?

Sitemaps are a protocol that allows the webmaster for a website to inform Google and other major search engines about URLS on a website that are available for crawling. Sitemaps allow search engines to find all of your webpages, that they might otherwise miss when indexing. The XML sitemap allows you to specify additional information about each URL such as:

When it was last updated
How often the site changes
How important the page is in relation to other pages on the site
Having this information within one document helps search engines understand your website and crawl it more intelligently. Sitemaps are an inclusion protocol, where Robots.txt files are exclusionary. For more information on robots.txt files please read our article.

How do I generate a XML sitemap?

Generating a XML sitemap for you website is a simple process, and there are many websites that can help you do so. Google recommends using http://xml-sitemaps.com

Start by visiting the link above in your web browser. On the home page of the website you can follow the 4 easy steps they have listed there.

xml-sitemap

In the third step on the webpage, you'll be downloading the text file from the website to your local computer. Once the file is downloaded to your local computer you'll then need to upload it to your document root of your domain. If you're unfamiliar with uploading files using manager, please read our article.

Understanding Search Engines and Sitemaps

You do not upload your sitemap to the search engines. After you have uploaded the sitemap to the server, you simply have to submit the full URL to your sitemap. After you have submitted the sitemaps to the major search engines, the next time they crawl the website they will have a better understanding of how your website works.

Google: You will need to use your Webmaster Tools account to let Google know the full URL to your sitemap.
Bing: Bing uses Windows Live accounts under the Webmaster Center section to specify sitemaps.
Yahoo: You will need to sign in to Yahoo! and insert the url in the 'Submit Site feed field'
 
A sitemap is a file where you can list the web pages of your site to tell Google and other search engines about the organization of your site content.
 
The Sitemaps protocol allows a webmaster to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for crawling. A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a site. ... Google, MSN and Yahoo announced joint support for the Sitemaps protocol in November 2006.
 
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A sitemap is a file where you can list the web pages of your site to tell Google and other search engines about the organization of your site content. Search engine web crawlers like Googlebot read this file to more intelligently crawl your site.
 
Google sitemap is a locator of pages of a website which helps Google to find each page of a website at the time of crawling. It is important for ON Page SEO. There are two types of sitemap. They are XML & HTML, in which XML is commonly used for web crawlers. There are tools that could help you to create a sitemap within a jiffy. It is simple & easy.
 
A sitemap is a file where you can list the web pages of your site to tell Google and other search engines about the organization of your site content. Search engine web crawlers like Google robot read this file to more intelligently crawl your site.
 
A sitemap is a file where you can list the web pages of your site to tell Google and other search engines about the organization of your site content. Search engine web crawlers like Googlebot read this file to more intelligently crawl your site.
 
A sitemap is a file where you can list the URL of your website to tell Google and other search engines about your site content.
 
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