Google Sitemap
10 Minutes to Your Google Sitemap...
Author: Ron Hutton
10 Minutes to Your Google Sitemap...Copyright 2005 Ron HuttonGoogle's calling your name... Hi, Google here. We want to index your website...Is anyone there?This article has a free corresponding online video tutorial that shows you how to summons the magic Googlebot to spider and index every page on your website, and it will only take about 10 minutes of your time.Go here now to watch exactly what to do,step-by-easy-step...
http://www.gothrive.com/google-sitemap-video.htm
What you have access to with the new Google Sitemapsprogram is truly a gift from the Google gods. They'veoffering you a tool that you can use to keep your site constantly indexed and updated in the search engine database. With Google Sitemaps, webmasters can now take charge and make sure that their entire site is crawled and indexed.One important note to make is that the Google Sitemapsprogram will not necessarily improve the ranking of yoursite's pages. It only ensures that Google knows what you'vegot online for them to look at.Before reading the following statement, promise yourselfthat you won't stop reading if you see a term that seems a little scary. OK? Promise? Good. Go ahead and keep reading then.
The format specified by Google for "their" sitemap is XML (extensible markup language). Did I loose you yet? No? Good again.You do not need to understand how to code XML toparticipate in the Google Sitemap program. There areplenty of free online tools that will create your XMLsitemap for you with no XML knowledge required on yourpart. More on this in a second.What information is including in this XML sitemap?1) The URL for every file on your website.2) A relative priority rank that you can assign tellingGoogle which pages on your site are most important for themto look at.3) The date last modified for each page.4) Anticipated change frequency per URL. This again is a variable that you control.
According to Google, your XML sitemap can include up to50,000 URL's. If your site is a real monster and has inexcess of 50,000 URL's, then you'll need to create ahierarchy of sitemaps with one leading to the next. Thisway you'll be able to lead Google to all of your pages.The options for generating and maintaining your GoogleSitemap range from complex systems that are highlyautomated to very simple systems using online sitemap generators that require nothing more than clicking a few buttons.
Google now keeps a list of these 'third party suppliers' of generators on their site. Find them here: http://code.google.com/sm_thirdparty.html The program that's demonstrated in our free video tutorial(http://www.gothrive.com/google-sitemap-video.htm) is foundhere: http://www.auditmypc.com/free-sitemap-generator.aspIn a nutshell, here are the steps involved with usingonline generators:1) Start the program. 2) Enter your site's URL 3) Click the "Start Crawling" button 4) Customize URL priorities and change frequencies 5) Save the site map to your local hard drive 6) Upload your new Google XML sitemap to your website inthe root directory (where your home page resides) 7) Validate your new sitemap (can be done here: http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/internet/google/submit-validate-sitemap/) 8) Submit your XML sitemap to Google.You can access the pages for the
Google Sitemap programhere: https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login8 steps in about 10 minutes. That's all there is to it.One question that you might ask is whether or not you still need an HTML sitemap, and the answer is "Yes, you still need your conventional sitemap". XML sitemaps are not intended for human visitors. To see what I mean, take a look at the two following sitemaps:HTML sitemap: http://www.gothrive.com/sitemap.htmlXML sitemap: http://www.gothrive.com/sitemap.xmlWhich version do you prefer? Your visitors will like theHTML and Google prefers XML. When you add pages or new content to your site and you want Google to go back to have a fresh look, just log in to your Google Sitemaps control panel, select the sitemap to revisit, and click "Resubmit".
It's never been easier to get Google to spider and index a website. Don't miss your opportunity to use this tool to your advantage.
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Ron Hutton is a 20 year sales and marketing veteran with a passion for coaching and training. Subscribe to "GoThrive Online", for big juicy marketing tips in small, easy-to-chew, bite size servings. Free Video Tutorial Archives Here:
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Ron Hutton is a 20 year sales and marketing veteran with a passion for coaching and training. Subscribe to "GoThrive Online", for big juicy marketing tips in small, easy-to-chew, bite size servings. Free Video Tutorial Archives Here: http://www.gothrive.com/free-video-library/video-directory.htmlContact him at http://www.gothrive.com
Author: Ron Hutton
10 Minutes to Your Google Sitemap...Copyright 2005 Ron HuttonGoogle's calling your name... Hi, Google here. We want to index your website...Is anyone there?This article has a free corresponding online video tutorial that shows you how to summons the magic Googlebot to spider and index every page on your website, and it will only take about 10 minutes of your time.Go here now to watch exactly what to do,step-by-easy-step...
http://www.gothrive.com/google-sitemap-video.htm
What you have access to with the new Google Sitemapsprogram is truly a gift from the Google gods. They'veoffering you a tool that you can use to keep your site constantly indexed and updated in the search engine database. With Google Sitemaps, webmasters can now take charge and make sure that their entire site is crawled and indexed.One important note to make is that the Google Sitemapsprogram will not necessarily improve the ranking of yoursite's pages. It only ensures that Google knows what you'vegot online for them to look at.Before reading the following statement, promise yourselfthat you won't stop reading if you see a term that seems a little scary. OK? Promise? Good. Go ahead and keep reading then.
The format specified by Google for "their" sitemap is XML (extensible markup language). Did I loose you yet? No? Good again.You do not need to understand how to code XML toparticipate in the Google Sitemap program. There areplenty of free online tools that will create your XMLsitemap for you with no XML knowledge required on yourpart. More on this in a second.What information is including in this XML sitemap?1) The URL for every file on your website.2) A relative priority rank that you can assign tellingGoogle which pages on your site are most important for themto look at.3) The date last modified for each page.4) Anticipated change frequency per URL. This again is a variable that you control.
According to Google, your XML sitemap can include up to50,000 URL's. If your site is a real monster and has inexcess of 50,000 URL's, then you'll need to create ahierarchy of sitemaps with one leading to the next. Thisway you'll be able to lead Google to all of your pages.The options for generating and maintaining your GoogleSitemap range from complex systems that are highlyautomated to very simple systems using online sitemap generators that require nothing more than clicking a few buttons.
Google now keeps a list of these 'third party suppliers' of generators on their site. Find them here: http://code.google.com/sm_thirdparty.html The program that's demonstrated in our free video tutorial(http://www.gothrive.com/google-sitemap-video.htm) is foundhere: http://www.auditmypc.com/free-sitemap-generator.aspIn a nutshell, here are the steps involved with usingonline generators:1) Start the program. 2) Enter your site's URL 3) Click the "Start Crawling" button 4) Customize URL priorities and change frequencies 5) Save the site map to your local hard drive 6) Upload your new Google XML sitemap to your website inthe root directory (where your home page resides) 7) Validate your new sitemap (can be done here: http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/internet/google/submit-validate-sitemap/) 8) Submit your XML sitemap to Google.You can access the pages for the
Google Sitemap programhere: https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login8 steps in about 10 minutes. That's all there is to it.One question that you might ask is whether or not you still need an HTML sitemap, and the answer is "Yes, you still need your conventional sitemap". XML sitemaps are not intended for human visitors. To see what I mean, take a look at the two following sitemaps:HTML sitemap: http://www.gothrive.com/sitemap.htmlXML sitemap: http://www.gothrive.com/sitemap.xmlWhich version do you prefer? Your visitors will like theHTML and Google prefers XML. When you add pages or new content to your site and you want Google to go back to have a fresh look, just log in to your Google Sitemaps control panel, select the sitemap to revisit, and click "Resubmit".
It's never been easier to get Google to spider and index a website. Don't miss your opportunity to use this tool to your advantage.
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Ron Hutton is a 20 year sales and marketing veteran with a passion for coaching and training. Subscribe to "GoThrive Online", for big juicy marketing tips in small, easy-to-chew, bite size servings. Free Video Tutorial Archives Here:
http://www.gothrive.com/free-video-library/video-directory.html
Ron Hutton is a 20 year sales and marketing veteran with a passion for coaching and training. Subscribe to "GoThrive Online", for big juicy marketing tips in small, easy-to-chew, bite size servings. Free Video Tutorial Archives Here: http://www.gothrive.com/free-video-library/video-directory.htmlContact him at http://www.gothrive.com
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