XML Sitemaps, an effective solution to getting your website indexed!

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XML Sitemaps

Are you looking for a simple and easy method to get all your websites pages crawled by the major search engines?

If so, XML sitemaps are the solution!

XML sitemaps are specially coded web pages formatted to be read by some search engines (ie Google) that provide the search engine with a complete index of your website.

Creating XML sitemaps can be a chore, however several free and paid softwares and scripts exist to assist in the creation of XML sitemaps.  Most of the XML sitemap generating programs crawl your website to generate the XML sitemap to be used, so only crawlable or spiderable pages are included in the sitemap.  Some programs like XML-Sitemaps even read and honor robots.txt files so that unwanted web pages are not included in the XML sitemap.

TEXT Sitemaps 

A text sitemap is simply a list of the URLs of the pages of your website in the form of a text file. An text sitemap is the required sitemap format for submission to Yahoo!.

HTML Sitemaps 

An HTML sitemap is simply a list of the pages on your website formatted as a standard HTML document suitable for display in a web browser. HTML sitemaps are generally coded to blend in with a websites overall design, and can used as an alternative method of navigation by a websites visitors. HTML sitemaps are also generally crawlable by search engines providing yet another avenue for search engines to find your websites pages.

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