Making a Sitemap

Sitemaps are a good way to get Search Engines to index your website faster and also to receive some rankings from it.


In here you will learn how to make a sitemap yourself. It's easy if you know what you are doing and in here, thats what you will learn!

If you have Alot of links or you don't have time, you might want to look for a sitemap generator, a free and good one i think is www.sitemapbuilder.net


First of all write all the Urls of your website in a simple text file ( notepad or simple text will do) - include the: http:// and the www with a line in between.
Etc:

http://www.webinghelp.com

http://www.webinghelp.com/sitemap.html

Now thats a basic sitemap,thought it won't work until we do some editing but before that you would want to improve it, Make it a sitemap that will make a difference!

What we will do is, Make The Search Engines Know about your website from the sitemap.

Now before every url add this <url> <loc>.

etc:
<url> <loc>http://www.webinghelp.com

And After every url add </loc>
etc:
<url> <loc>http://www.webinghelp.com </loc>

After each </loc>, put 1 space and add
<priority>

Now chose the priority of the website.

1 is the highest and 0 is the lowest.
The Webpages that are more important should have higher priority then the less impotant pages.

Note: Make sure you use 0.5, 0.4 etc etc instead of .5, .4.

Now that you've done the priority, you should close it down by adding </priority> after the priority number you've set up.

so far each of your Urls should look like this example.

<url> <loc>http://www.webinghelp.com</loc> <priority> 0.5</priority>

Now we Going To add how often the website is updated by doing this:

after </priority> add 1 space and type the following: <changefreq>

Now you have several options, depending on how often you edit a webpage.

write 1 of these after <changefreq>

:always
:hourly
:daily
:weekly
:monthly
:yearly
:never

After you have done that, close it by writing </changefreq>.

so now your each of your Urls should look like this:

<url> <loc>http://www.webinghelp.com</loc> <priority>0.5</priority> <changefreq>daily</changefreq>

Thats it your nearly finished.

You Should now Add this on the top of your text file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> < urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">


And At The bottom write </urlset>

Now you need to save your file But, The file must end in a .xlm extension and it's encoding Must Be UTF-8.
Save!

You are done! Now you should upload the .xlm file into your public directory and you should sumbit it to google.