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Site Maps = business

Success is that knife-edge that teeters between effectiveness and catastrophe. Too many unimportant pages or non relevant pages can harm your site. Excluding some pages from a site map can be advantageous. The trick is to tempt catastrophe and not create it.

Sitemaps organise information on a site into a logical order – you can confuse or overwhelm the user with to much information. A successful website (and its sitemap) relies on the principles of efficiency.


It is important to survive and once your site is accepted by the search engines, with time, maturity will make you more successful. Being around on the web for a few years is better than being the new kid on the block – just hang in there and create your own history.

Where do you place a link to a site map on a site? The most common place is in the footer navigation.

A schematic map of your website

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XML Sitemap protocol allows a webmaster, site owner or business to inform search engines about the pages on a website that are available for crawling. Likewise you can keep some pages ‘private’ by not listing them and providing there are no other links on your site to these private pages they will not be read by Search Engines. A search engine is not ‘magic’ you have to invite them in to crawl your pages, you have to open the door for them.
Complicated concepts when explained in a simple way make things easier to understand. Knowledge enables understanding, a schematic plan, a diagram or a map, is a key or a link to this understanding.  A Sitemap is an XML file (and this is exactly what it  is, a schematic map of your website) that lists the URLs contained on a site and contains additional information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in relation to other URLs in the site. This allows search engines to crawl the site more intelligently.
Once you have created an XML sitemap and have loaded it up to your site what do you do with it? Google recommends you to first submit your Sitemap using Google Webmaster Tools. This means you will be able to validate your site, claiming ownership or access rights to the site, informing them you are responsible for updating, managing or optimizing etc. This will ensure that your Sitemap details are in your Webmaster Tools. In addition to your Webmaster Tools, you can also submit (and resubmit) your Sitemap using the following methods:
• Sending a HTTP request to Google
• Including your Sitemap location in your robots.txt file
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It is very easy to become allergic to your website, it can make you ill. Simple solutions can make your web site healthier and prevent you from becoming contaminated with its spores or germs.

Sleepless nights can be eradicated and red, watery eyes can be a thing of the past. If you are not in search engines the reason is – they don’t know you are there. Try using a sitemap – it might be the right antihistamine

Sitemap protocols allow 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 and helps to show how important each page is in relation to other URLs in the web site. This allows search engines to crawl the site more intelligently and efficiently.

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