Peps

A Sitemap should contain a list of your site's URLs - up to 50,000 of them. If you have a large site with more than 50,000 URLs, you should create multiple Sitemaps and submit a Sitemap index file <>.

You can provide Google with a simple text file that contains one URL per line. For example:

www.example.com/file1.html

www.example.com/file2. html

For best results, follow these guidelines:

1. You must fully specify URLs as Google attempts to crawl them exactly as provided.
2. Each text file can contain a maximum of 50,000 URLs. If you site includes more than 50,000 URLs, you can separate the list into multiple text files and add each one separately.
3. The text file must use UTF-8 encoding. You can specify this when you save the file (for instance, in Notepad, this is listed in the Encoding menu of the Save As dialog box).
4. The text file should contain no information other than the list of URLs.
5. The text file should contain no header or footer information.
6. You can name the text file anything you wish. Google recommends giving the file a .txt extension to identify it as a text file (for instance, sitemap.txt).

You should upload the text file to your server, generally to the highest-level directory you want search engines to crawl. Once you've created this file, you can submit it as a Sitemap. This process, while manual, is the simplest and is probably best if you're not familiar with scripting or managing your web server.

klper

Try this www.jsbwebtemplates.com/sitemap.html

athomas

Go here: http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Script...ing/index.html

Take your pick.

abwebdesign

Here is an excerpt regarding sitemaps, from Part 3 of The SEO Crash Course.

Part 3: sitemap.xml
The sitemap.xml is placed within the main directory of your website and it is precisely what it sounds like -- a map of your website. It helps search engine bots by letting them know what files exist within the site before indexing even takes place. This is beneficial to you, and to the bot, because it reduces the total indexing time. Here is an example of what may be found within a sitemap.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<url>
<loc>http://www.abwebdesignerie.com/web-design-erie-pa.html>
<lastmod>2008-06-07</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.8</priority>
</url>
</urlset>

Fairly self-explanatory:

* loc: the location of the file
* lastmod: the last time the file was modified
* changefreq: how often the page content changes (eg. daily, weekly, monthly, etc...)
* priority: the priority of the page - relative the the other pages found within the site (the scale runs from 0.0 to 1.0, and is usually incremental to the tenths place - eg. 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, etc...)

I suggest reading a little more information about the sitemap.xml at www.sitemaps.org

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HopkinsMeve

You can easily create a site map by simply follow this code
You can create a site map by hand coding HTML or by using site map tools called site map generators.
Manually

A site map is simply a listing of web pages (usually by title) and the links on them. Although a site map cam just be a simple list of page the structure is usually like an index in a book e.g.

Theme
---->Category-name
---------->Article-name

It is easy to create a site map manually by using a nested list as shown below:

<ul>
<li>Main Theme
<ul>
<li>Subtheme
<ul>
<li><a href="page1.htm">Page 1 title</a>
<li><a href="page2.htm">Page 2 title</a>
<li><a href="page2.htm">Page 2 title</a>
</ul>

</ul>

</ul>

Here is what the above code would look like:

* Main Theme
o Subtheme
+ Page 1 title
+ Page 2 title
+ Page 2 title

Site maps, especially manually created ones, can be hard to maintain as they require to be updated each time the web site content changes.

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hariara

I use GSite Crawler from http://gsitecrawler.com/ ; easy to manage and can upload directly from the software. Even can setup your google and Yahoo verification page section.

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Lally Nettie

The Google Webmaster Tools mentioned above is your best bet. Not only is it FREE and incredibly useful, but it will also optimize your rankings for Google's search results. Win-win for everyone.

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fromthe5

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by that. Can you explain that a little more?

Gorgy

I used xml-sitemaps.com and it took me several minutes to create a site map. So I would also recommend this one.

Bronzy

Hi All,
Here is a list of third party tools that might help code.google.com/sm_thirdparty.html......

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