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Now that you have\u00a0Optimized your Website<\/a>\u00a0for the Google Search Engine, let’s talk about XML sitemaps.<\/p>\n A Sitemap is the\u00a0Dewey Decimal System of your website. \u00a0It is an\u00a0XML file that represents a “Spider friendly” hierarchy of your individual webpage\u2019s URLs. \u00a0A Sitemap allows the Google Search Engine Crawlers to “Find all your individual webpages.”<\/p>\n You can also use Sitemaps to provide Google with metadata about specific types of content on your site, including\u00a0video<\/a>,\u00a0images<\/a>,\u00a0mobile<\/a>, and\u00a0News<\/a>.<\/p>\n In addition, the XML File will provide metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.<\/p>\n You can manually or automatically generate an XML File of your site . Yet regardless of how your generate a map, keep in mind, \u00a0the Google Search Engine recommends a sitemap.xml \u00a0based on the Sitemap protocol<\/a>.<\/p>\n If your website is built on a\u00a0Content Management System (CMS)<\/a>, there are lots of\u00a0Free\u00a0<\/a>Drupal Plugins<\/a>\u00a0& free\u00a0WordPress Plugins<\/a>. \u00a0 And if you have access to your server, you can upload the\u00a0Google Sitemap Generator (Beta)<\/a><\/p>\n And remember<\/p>\n While we might consider Google the Yoda of search engines, there are other search engines out there indexing websites, and they make up for 15-20% of search traffic. \u00a0So don’t forget to submit your sitemap.xml \u00a0to\u00a0the \u201clittle guys\u201d too.<\/p>\n Google Webmaster Tools<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 The first time you submit a sitemap, you need to add it to your Google Webmaster Tools account. Google\u2019s instructions:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>Yahoo Site Explorer<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>\u2013 For the most direct way to submit your sitemap to Yahoo, follow these steps:<\/p>\n [ad#ynot]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is a Sitemap? Now that you have\u00a0Optimized your Website\u00a0for the Google Search Engine, let’s talk about XML sitemaps. A Sitemap is the\u00a0Dewey Decimal System of your website. \u00a0It is an\u00a0XML file that represents a “Spider friendly” hierarchy of your individual webpage\u2019s URLs. \u00a0A Sitemap allows the Google Search Engine Crawlers to “Find all your… Continue reading XML Sitemaps<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2897,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3229","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","without-featured-image"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\tHow do you create an XML Sitemap?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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