SEO Sitemaps Give Websites a Boost

**twalters84** · 09-30-2007, 02:03 PM

Hey there,

I totally agree that sitemaps can do wonders for your website.

There is a different between a user friendly sitemap and a search engine site map though.

For search engines sitemaps, do a google search for "site map protocol" and you will see sitemaps created in XML format. You can submit your XML sitemap to google, yahoo, and other major search engines.

For user friendly sitemaps, I would have a page with useful links on your site that people can browse through. This is what most sites have.

Using the XML sitemap method, I had over 150 pages of my clients real estate website indexed in less than a month.

For new websites, I would not submit your sitemap to search engines until your website is complete. If you are doing your website on a different server and plan to transfer it over, do not submit your sitemap on the test server or you will run into duplicate content issues.

Sincerely,
Travis Walters

**the-ref** · 11-27-2007, 04:01 PM

Thought I'd just throw this out since we're on the topic of sitemaps. If you want search engine-friendly sitemaps, you can create them pretty easily through www.xml-sitemaps.com/. It's all free and very easy to use. Just enter your domain, download the pages it generates, put a link to them on your homepage, and upload them to your site.

Pretty simple. I've actually used it on a couple of sites and it works quite nice.

**cringwall** · 01-09-2008, 09:34 AM

I've used the Coffee Cup Sitemap generator program for several sites, and it works well, even uploads for you. It's only 30 bucks and is well worth it.

**DMike** · 01-10-2008, 06:18 AM

Here are some links if you want to build sitemaps on your own.
The best one around(as i see it) it's the google sitemap generator
google.com/webmasters/tools/dovs/en/sitemap-generator html

You can use this url to generate sitempas, but you're limietd to 500 links
xml-sitemaps com

And here is some info on the sitemaps, how to build them

sitemaps org

I saw the message that i'm not allowed to post links yet, make sure you
add the "." before html, com, org. Those are some links with informations