Create a google sitemap for your web site

Google Sitemaps is a simple and fast way for your site to be perpetually indexed and updated by Google.

This article will discuss the benefits of implementing this new engineering, who should use it, how it works and how to create a Google Sitemap for your web site.

Benefits of having a Google Site Map

1. Speeds up the find and add-on of your web pages in the Google index.

2. Enables Google to rapidly find web pages that have been late changed.

3. A method for your site to be listed and appear quickly in Google.

4. Helps Google to keep hunt content fresh, so people have the most up to date info available.

Who should use Google Sitemaps?

All site owners can use Google sitemaps whether you have one page or 1000000 of pages, nevertheless it's largely geared towards people that make frequent changes to their web pages.

usually web pages on a large site will not all get indexed because the links are too deep inside the site. By including all your pages in the Google Sitemap you have a good chance of them all being indexed as Google thrives on fresh content. According to Google, it won't addition your site's rankings.

How does it work?

Google sitemaps are created using XML (Extensible Markup linguistic communication). This is a cryptography language similar to HTML(although a little more composite). It is often used these days in syndicated feeds or blogs.

Here is the sample XML code you would include for each page of your site:

http://www.yoursite.com/ 2005-07-15 every month 0.5

Here is a dislocation of what each line represents:

location - name of your webpage ie http://www.yoursite.com

last modified - when you last modified the page.

alteration frequency - tells Google how often you modify that specific page, whether it's never, weekly, daily, hourly, monthly or yearly.

priority - sets the priority you want Google to place for that page on your site. You can prioritize your pages: 0.0 being the least, 1.0 being the highest, 0.5 is in the middle.

This is only relative to your site. It will not affect your rankings. Certain pages on your site may have more significance than others because they are updated more often ie home page, articles page.

How to Create a Dynamic Google SiteMap XML File

It would take a long time to create your Google Sitemap by hand especially if you have a site that contains 1000s of pages.

Fortunately Google provides the Sitemap Generator that allows you to generate a sitemap very quickly. It's a Python script that creates a Sitemap for your site using the Sitemap Protocol. This script can create Sitemaps from URL lists, web server directories, or from access logs.

You can read more about it here: