Search Engines SEO- Sitemaps Review

Getting major search engines search as Google, Yahoo and MSN among others to spider your XML-Sitemap just got a little bit easier. Though it is quite simple to submit through Google Webmaster Tools, there is a much easier way.

Applelounge has recently launched an XML-Sitemap Generator that makes it easy for Search engine to crawl through your website. If you are an SEO, you want to know what Google Search engines are seeing, what errors does the spider encounters; this is the tools you have been looking for. As it tells you how the spider views and responds to your robots.txt.

 

Over the past year, Google, MSN, Yahoo have adopted the Sitemap protocol and Google Sitemap especially has evolved over the past year and now offers valuable advice to webmasters and encourages to use its service to submit. Google, Yahoo and MSN has all been using the same XML-Sitemap file to index your website since January 2007. Now this is good news for all, as not only the tool that you use on SEO-Sitemaps.com can be submitted across all search engines.

Google Sitemaps keeps Google's search results fresh. It helps them to deliver the most recent pages to searchers, but webmasters certainly benefit from it too. With a little extra work, sites have more visibility on Google, and they can push information at the same time as pulling statistics and errors to help increase indexing.

So what are the easy steps in generating and submitting the Google XML Sitemap file to your website directory?

These 4 Steps will get your XML sitemap file created and registered with Google:

(1) Visit www.seo-sitemaps.com to create the XML-Sitemap that uses a PHP script to crawl through your site and design the XML format supported by Google to generate the sitemap. It allows you to create 500 free pages per site and then for a nominal price of $10 you can store unlimited sites and is great option to choose for SEO companies. Though you have to be patient, as you might just discover errors on your site such as broken links and error pages. You may consider cleaning up before you generate the sitemap. The great thing about SEO-Sitemaps.com is that you can re-index that file and it does the job in seconds.

(2) Upload XML sitemap saved on your desktop file  to your website or you may want to take the additional benefits such as if you provide your ftp details, the site will automatically update your XML-Sitemap on your root directory and notify Google.  

(3) Verify from Google: You need to register with Google Webmaster Tools to confirm the existence of the XML-Sitemap file. You may verify your site either by uploading a meta tag on the homepage or uploading an HTML file. I would recommend uploading a tag on the homepage. As soon as the site is verified, this needs to be done only once.

(4) Submit XML file - Upload the Sitemap as per the instructions provided under the Google Webmaster Tools dashboards. Your Google Sitemap will be submitted to Google for indexing.

Conclusion:  XML-Sitemap files are extremely important for search engines as it makes it easier for search engines to index and it is essential. Don't be lazy just do it.