Nov

Adding a Google Sitemap

Written by Neil Galloway

I added a google sitemap today. A sitemap is an XML file that contains information to aid Google in indexing your site. I didn't feel like writing the whole thing out, so I found a web site that would generate it for me and tried it out. sitemapspal.com worked pretty easy. I just fed in my url and out it spit the XML. I tweaked the XML a bit signify when pages would change.

I am just wondering what kind of a difference it will make to my site. It is so basic I would think it wouldn't but we'll find out. I changed the homepage frequency to daily and increased its priority, but that is about it.

I saved the text to a file called sitemap.xml and then used the Google website to upload it to my sites account.

Does anyone else know some more detail around it?

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Category: Computers

1 Comments

Arthur Says:
2007-06-29 07:23:27
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