Sitemap problem is here

[Danielnash]

Hello friends,


i don't know what is the sitemap? plz tell me all about its


thanks

 

[ishie]

Sitemap is like a summary of a site which contains text links or groups of contents that can be found in the entire site. It's easy to make one. Use xml-sitemaps.com for that.

 

[Danielnash]

hello my friends

I got some info about sitemap by searching on google. so i want share with u my conclusion.

"Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. XML Sitemaps have replaced the older

method of "submitting to search engines"Sitemaps are a useful tool for making sites built in Flash and other non-html languages search-able."


Please tell me am I right or wrong and plz put your views if I am forgetting about sitemap.


Thanks

 

[ellehc]

Sitemap is like a summary of a site which contains text links or groups of contents that can be found in the entire site. It's easy to make one. Use xml-sitemaps.com for that.

Agreed! Very well said.

 

[Danielnash]

hello my friends

Thanks for all that I became familiar with what is the sitemap with the help of your guidlines but after knewing that one question arised in my mind that robots.txt and sitemap are the same things because both are tell us "which one links to be crawled and which one not be." plz clear this problem.


thanks alot

 

[PixelPusher]

Not entirely...

Robots.txt files are used to declare private directories, no-follow pages, etc.

Sitemaps declare an overall structure of your website. Here you can suggest an indexing frequency. Say for instance you change a page on your website every month, well you can notate this in you xml file like so:

XML Sitemap

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
	<url>
		<loc>http://www.yoursite.com/</loc>
		<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
		<priority>0.8</priority>
	</url>
</urlset>

 

[Danielnash]

hello everybody

Can any one tell me where have to put site map and robots.txt?

thanks

 

[alfredwinston]

Create a site map - A site map is a separate HTML page that acts as a directory of the pages on your website. Each page listed in the site map is hyperlinked.

Use keywords in the link anchor text and consider synonyms that might be commonly used in place of your keywords, such as plates for dishes. Also, since search engines seem to place more weight on text contained in a bulleted or numbered list, put your links in lists.

A site map is not only good for getting search engine spiders to follow your page links and easily crawl your entire site, it's a useful tool for your visitors because it helps them find the content page they're looking for. It may also help them click into pages they might have otherwise overlooked.

 

[bailey.rein]

Sitemap contains text links of all the pages you have in your site. It helps your visitors navigate your page easily and helps your sub-pages or inner pages get index as well.

 

[PixelPusher]

hello everybody

Can any one tell me where have to put site map and robots.txt?

thanks

Daniel,
They need to be in the root directory of your website. ("examplesite.com/sitemap.xml")