Make Money from Blogs » Sitemaps http://earn-cash-tips.com Articles on how to improve your money making abilities Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:19:22 +0000 en hourly 1 Generating sitemaps for submitting to Google http://earn-cash-tips.com/2008/08/generating-sitemaps-for-submitting-to-google/ http://earn-cash-tips.com/2008/08/generating-sitemaps-for-submitting-to-google/#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:27:07 +0000 ashish http://earn-cash-tips.com/?p=55 If you want Google to properly index your site, and to make it more likely that Google will pick up all your posts to show on their search, then it is recommended that you use Google sitemaps (refer the previous article). This article tries to explain how to do this for blogs that are running [...]]]> If you want Google to properly index your site, and to make it more likely that Google will pick up all your posts to show on their search, then it is recommended that you use Google sitemaps (refer the previous article). This article tries to explain how to do this for blogs that are running on either the Blogger.com platform, or are using their own WordPress installation.
There will be 2 parts to this article:
1) How to get to the site where you need to submit the Sitemap
2) How do you generate a sitemap that you can submit

How to generate a sitemap ?
A) If you run a site on Blogger.com, say for example this site, then the simplest sitemap that will work for the Google Webmaster sitemap is to add a rss.xml to the URL, so that you will get http://cancer-read.blogspot.com/rss.xml
B) If you are using WordPress, then it would be better to use this plugin, Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress (available at). You need to upload this plugin to your wp-content/plugins/ directory and activate the plugin from your Plugins page. After that you will have a new menu point called “Sitemap” under the “Options” menu, and will need to rebuild once.

Once you have generated a sitemap, you need to submit it to Google through the following method:
1. Upload your Sitemap to your site in the highest level directory you want search engines to crawl, generally the root. If you list URLs in your Sitemap that are at a higher level than your Sitemap location, Google will be unable to include those URLs as part of the Sitemap submission. (this entire point is not valid for Blogger.com accounts)
2. Sign into Google Webmaster Tools with your Google Account.
3. Add your site to your account.
4. Click Add a Sitemap next to the site for which you want to add a Sitemap.
5. Choose General Web Sitemap.
6. Type the URL to your Sitemap location in the provided field. Make sure you include the entire URL, such as http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml.
7. Click Add Web Sitemap.

Once you have done this, then your sitemap would be submitted. Login around a day later and check to see that there are no errors, and if none, you are all set.

]]> http://earn-cash-tips.com/2008/08/generating-sitemaps-for-submitting-to-google/feed/ 0 Google sitemap ? What are the benefits ? http://earn-cash-tips.com/2008/08/google-sitemap-what-are-the-benefits/ http://earn-cash-tips.com/2008/08/google-sitemap-what-are-the-benefits/#comments Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:23:42 +0000 ashish http://earn-cash-tips.com/?p=54 A strange term if you have not heard of them before. What are Google sitemaps, and why should you be concerned about them ? Well, here goes: The Google Sitemaps application is a part of the Google Webmasters tool available at this link. In its simplest terms, a Sitemap is a list of the pages [...]]]> A strange term if you have not heard of them before. What are Google sitemaps, and why should you be concerned about them ? Well, here goes:
The Google Sitemaps application is a part of the Google Webmasters tool available at this link.
In its simplest terms, a Sitemap is a list of the pages on your website. Creating and submitting a Sitemap helps make sure that Google knows about all the pages on your site, including URLs that may not be discoverable by Google’s normal crawling process.
Some advantages of the sitemaps:
* By adding a sitemap to your site, you can ensure that Google indexes your pages much faster
* Changes to your site structure (that is, moving files from one location to another) can be much faster updated in the Google index if the sitemap remains updated
* Most search engines will only follow a finite number of links from a page, so if a site is very large, the site map may be required so that search engines and visitors can access all content on the site.
* Since MSN, Yahoo, Ask, and Google use the same protocol, having a sitemap lets the four biggest search engines have the updated page information.
* Web Pages are Categorized and Prioritized exactly How You Want
* The Google Sitemaps service is Free
* If your site has dynamic content, then Google Sitemaps are the best method
* If your site has pages that aren’t easily discovered by Googlebot during the crawl process – for example, pages featuring rich AJAX or Flash, then use Sitemaps

For users as well, there is another benefit: Sitemaps are particularly beneficial when users can’t reach all areas of a website through a browseable interface. (Generally, this is when users are unable to reach certain pages or regions of a site by following links). For example, any site where certain pages are only accessible via a search form would benefit from creating a Sitemap and submitting it to search engines.

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