April 29, 2010
How to Create a Sitemap For Your Website
By:
Jesse Paz A sitemap of a website is
similar to the table of contents of a book. Sitemaps are
important because it guides web surfers to the particular
part of the website they have a point of interest in. With
it they would not waste time following links and get right
to the point instead saving time.
Sitemaps are also where search engines look at if somebody
is looking for a particular keyword or phrase. If you have a
site map, you can most likely be searched.
Creating a sitemap, now with software technology surging in,
is relatively easier than before. You need not be a
programming guru to be one. All need is a notepad, a program
editor, and some patience. Here’s how you do it:
Create the listing on a notepad.
It doesn’t necessarily have to be a notepad. Any word
processing program will do. First off, make sure to type in
all the parts and pieces of your website. Include all pages
and all links you have. Create it as if you listing the
contents of your book. Make a draft first. You’re sure not
to leave something out this way.
Create a new page for your sitemap.
You can insert the sitemap on your website on one of its
pages or you can create an entirely different page for it.
Using your notepad, incorporate all tags necessary to it to
make another webpage. Open up your website creator program
and tag your sitemap using it. If you have created your
website on your own, this will be easy for you.
Create a link for the sitemap.
You won’t be able to view the sitemap if you won’t put a
link for it, of course. Create the link on the front page of
your website so that visitors can view it right away and be
directed appropriately.
Check your work.
It is important to validate the functionality of the links
you created on the sitemap. Test each and every one in there
and if you get an error, be sure to fix it accurately. Run
through every single page to make sure that all are
accounted for.
Upload your work.
Place the sitemap now on your live browser and double check
it. It should function as smoothly as the dry run. Error
should be minimal at this stage since you already have
verified it locally.
The steps provided herewith is the manual way of creating a
sitemap. These days, if you search hard enough on the web,
you will find online programs that will do all these work
for you. All you have to do it type in the URL or the link
of your website and they will create the sitemap with click
of a button.
Of course that method is generic. All of you who have
created their sitemap that way will have an end product that
is all the same, plus there’s that possibility that
something else will be inserted in there too. Then again,
the process is less taxing and way, way simpler.
But if you want a more personalized output, and you are
pretty good with computers and programming yourself, better
make one of your own. And since you made your website
anyway, creating sitemap is just like creating any other
page on the website. Other than you’ll know for sure the
links are accurate, you can organize the links the way you
prefer it to be. Major parts of the site are emphasized
compared to less significant. This is important especially
if you are selling products or offering services online.
Sitemap is vital to a website. People search the web a lot
for something. If your website has what that particular
person is looking for, and your sitemap reports it, then you
have a new customer looking at your items. Not only that,
they will see some other things up for sale that they might
be interested in as well.
Sitemaps, generated by a program automatically or made by
you, presents the same purpose. That is to lead your
visitors to where they’re likely headed, and for you to be
seen on the World Wide Web through search spiders. So with
that said, make sure your website has a sitemap of its own.
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Jesse Paz
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