Monday, March 7, 2011

XML Sitemap Creation

Create XML sitemap that can be submitted to Google, Bing, Yahoo and more search engines to help them crawl your website better. its better for search engines to easily crawl your websites. XML sitemaps were not, as some user friendly a tool for search engine optimization.

The XML protocol, search engines could track the URL's more efficiently,summarizes how frequently a particular website is updated, and records the last time any changes were made.

XML format ensures that this information can be easily processed on different kinds of applications and systems, so Search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing, and other search engines) won't have any problems with understanding your sitemap files.

XML Sitemap sample:-

< <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<url>
<loc>http://www.example.com/</loc>
<lastmod>2005-01-01</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.8</priority>
</url>
<url>

<loc>http://www.example.com/about.htm</loc>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
</url>
</urlset>

The sitemap example above contains 2 URLs and all of the allowed optional tags: <lastmod>, <changefreq> and <priority>.

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