Officially
announced on June 6th, 2005 at
Google's Blog, Google Site Map allows you
to submit a listing of all your urls for
Google to crawl.
There have been many questions concerning the
procedure of creating a Google Site Map. Below
is the non-Python way of creating one. (Note:
Google has further documentation at their
site)
First, create a file named sitemap.xml
Use the following code in any HTML editor:
<?xml
version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset
xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84">
<url>
<loc>http://www.seoforgoogle.com/</loc>
<lastmod>2005-06-30T14:12:14+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
<priority>1.0</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.seoforgoogle.com/glossary.cfm</loc>
<lastmod>2005-06-30T14:12:14+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>1.0</priority>
</url>
</urlset>
Here's a breakdown of those properties:
lastmod -
This is the date the document was last
modified and uses the following formats:
dd.mm.yyyy
dd.mm.yyyy hh:mm
dd/mm/yyyy
dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm
changefreq -
Tells Google Sitemaps the frequently that
content of a particular URL will change.
Your options are "always", "hourly", "daily",
"weekly", "monthly", "yearly" or "never".
The value "always" should be used to describe
documents that change each time they are
accessed. The value "never" should be used to
describe archived URLs.
priority -
The priority of a particular URL relative to
other pages on your site.
You may select between 0.0 and 1.0, where 0.0
identifies the lowest priority page(s) on your
website and 1.0 identifies the highest
priority page(s) on your website.
Add as many pages as there are in your
website.
Google Sitemap supports up to 50,000 pages per
XML file.
Once you've completed all of those steps,
you'll need to submit your site map page.
Submit to: (requires gmail account)
https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login
[If you don't have a gmail account send an
email requesting a gmail account and I'll give
them out until I run out of invites. (ts@seoforgoogle.com)]
-To your online success!
Paul Bliss
www.seoforgoogle.com