Sitemaps

A sitemap is a page which will contains links to all the pages available in our site.

• It plays an important role in an seo's perspective/point of view.
• It helps our visitors to navigate and inform about all the pages through out our site
• It helps crawlers to crawl all the pages since it links are given in the sitemap which will be followed by the bot and get indexed. Hence all our pages will get indexed.
• Avoid using rel="nofollow" in the href links in sitemap page.
• Do stuff proper keywords in the links available at sitemap pages.

Generating Sitemaps:

• The sitemap.html page can be created by using html language with href links in it and can be added as an additional page to our site.
• The sitemap.xml file can be prepared and submitted to the search engines to find and index all our pages in the site.
• It can also be generated using sitemap protocol which is available in lots of sites(third party tools).
• Google generates sitemap for our site for free of cost using it phython script which can be submitted all major search engines.
• It can also be a text file "sitemap.txt" in std. UTF-8 encoding format with one url in a line and not more than 50,000 url's in a file. However we can generate and upload "n" no. of text files.
  

In addtion to these regular sitemaps we can also submit RSS feeds and Pod casts to get indexed and reach our customers and crawlers.you can also create Sitemaps designed to give Google like search engines, information about specialized URLs which includes,
Video Sitemaps
Mobile Sitemaps
News Sitemaps
Code Search Sitemaps