Easiest Way To Create XML SiteMap for Google.
Today’s hint or website suggestion contains two of our favorite things:
“free” and “improve web traffic”. I sat down this week and started what seemed like a gigantic task, to create a website for http://www.PikesPeakAtlas.com with close to 100 pages to it. While working on this I also started to consider how to get Google to see all of it in a timely fashion. Google loves sitemaps, but sitemaps are NOT written in conventional HTML usually, so I went looking for a site that could help.
XML Sitemaps - usually called Sitemaps, with a capital S - are a way for you to give Google information about your site. This is the type of Sitemap we’ll be discussing in this article.
In its simplest terms, a Sitemap is a list of the pages on your website.
Creating and submitting a Sitemap helps make sure that Google knows about all the pages on your site, including URLs that may not be discoverable by Google’s normal crawling process.
http://www.makeasitemap.com was just what I was looking for. It was super straight forward, gave me the simple options that I needed. Of course two of my favorite things about it is that it is FREE and WEB-BASED, no software to download.
This bookmark suggestion comes from:
Pete Van Vuren
http://www.pikespeakatlas.com
Thursday 22 October 2009 2:58 pm
For those of you still following the Pike’s Peak Atlas website progress…haha…you thus far have learned that sometimes my progress is slow. It took a year for the cartographer to finish the new edition. The new edition, the 9th edition of the Pikes Peak Atlas finally became available in late August 2009. With that, I was asked to by the cartographer to use http://www.pikes-peak-atlas.com as my domain instead because he wants to do a instructive project with the original. This came as somewhat of a blow to me since I had spent close to a year flirting with Google’s search engine to see and remember me. So for now, I left a link at the original site and started over at http://www.pikes-peak-atlas.com. This has been a basic landing site because I has no real forewarning of the maps release and all of a sudden had over 500 orders via Paypal…. more soon.