How to Create Sitemap

Sitemap is useful for search engines that inform of your site URL contains on your website or your blog. Sitemap using protocol that write by highly scalable that accommodate sites of any size, beside the URL address is register on your sitemap, you can also add additional information on your sitemap, such as last update, how often it changes, how important it is in relation to other URL in the site and also what kind of your file that may to follow or no follow by engines.

Creating your sitemap may can use some automatically create from any website service, but this idea is not recommended if you want to create your site map for free. Automatic creation using any website service, usually just valid for certain period, after that your sitemap will finish and can’t be used anymore. I recommend that you can create your sitemap by yourself you can follow step by step the guideline hire or from google sitemap.

Please attention that using sitemap does not guarantee that your all site will be included in search indexes and using sitemap will not influence of the way Google will rank your site. But by submitting a Sitemap (or Sitemaps) to a search engine, will help engine's crawlers to do a better job of crawling your site.

Sitemaps created for Google using Sitemap Protocol 0.9 are therefore compatible with other search engines that adopt the standards of sitemaps.org. You can create a sitemap using notepad that available on Windows, after you create sitemap structure you must save with extension xml such as YourSitemapName.xml, when you save this file you must use convert by UTF-8 encoded. If you using Blogger for your blog, you don’t need to create sitemap because Blogger have create automatically for you, for this purpose see on my other article on Get Listing in search engine.

The Sitemap structure must contains:

• On this example I change <> sign with [] because <> sign cannot be view for closing tag.
• Begin with an opening <>tag and end with a closing [/]tag.
• Include an entry for each URL as a parent XML tag.
• Include a child entry for each parent tag.

The following example shows a Sitemap in XML format. The Sitemap in the example contains a small number of URLs, each of which is identified using the XML tag. In this example, a different set of optional parameters has been provided for each URL.


<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">

<url>
<loc>http:// www.carengine.googlepages.com/
<lastmod>2008-01-01
<changefreq>monthly
<priority>0.8
[/url]

<url>
<loc>http:// www.carengine.googlepages.com/toyota2009
<changefreq>weekly
[/url]

<url>
<loc>http:// www.carengine.googlepages.com/mercedesbenz
<lastmod>2008-07-23
<changefreq>weekly
[/url]

<url>
<loc>http:// www.carengine.googlepages.com/mostpopularcar
<lastmod>2008-07-23T18:00:15+00:00
<priority>0.3
[/url]

<url>
<loc>http:// www.carengine.googlepages.com/audicar
<lastmod>2008-07-23
[/url] [/urlset]

You must modified that code and change with your url address and also the closing sign "[]" with "<>".

You can compress your Sitemap files using gzip. Compressing your Sitemap files will reduce your bandwidth requirement. Please note that your uncompressed Sitemap file may not be larger than 10MB.