How to make a sitemap

How to make a sitemap?
After Google,yahoo and Microsoft agreeing on using on sitemap configuration for indexing any website or blog its going to be an important factor to come into search engines.Sitemaps aren’t any scary thing.To make them is a peace of cake just remember to not change your links too often else it will break your indexing on search engines.Learn Full Tutorial.For Bloggers:
There are two plugin implemented for wordpress and it works on 2.0.I have implemented both of them.
* Sitemap.xml Generator…….Demo on my blog here.This plugin is great.It can build your sitemap and ping google about it too.It rebuilds your sitemap every time you make a post or page and ping again.Buy my suggestion is after you create a sitemap,you should go and submit by telling the location of your stitemap individually. This will be helpful in SEO.
* Visual Sitemap Generaor.…..Demo on my blog here.This one is useful for viewers who are looking for a particular category.They can just go the page and find and then click on it to read the post.Too good. This can be helpful for new readers.

Sitemaps XML format:
The Sitemap protocol format consists of XML tags. All data values in a Sitemap must be entity-escaped. The file itself must be UTF-8 encoded.The Sitemap must:

* Begin with an opening tag and end with a closing tag.
* Specify the namespace (protocol standard) within the tag.
* Include a entry for each URL, as a parent XML tag.
* Include a child entry for each parent tag.

How to make a sitemap for blogger:
It’s very simple in Blogger. It only requires you to go to the Google Webmaster Central and ass your site feed and the sitemap is automatically created. You can get detail instruction on this here.Make sure that you submit your full feed and not partial one.Click this link to learn about sitemap.

There are lot of free online and downloadable sitemap generators.
Here’s a simplified listing :

Python Scipt - This is the most difficult one to install. But if you are familiar with python, then this is the best one around.It’s automated and requires no additional support.I don’t recommend it for a beginner.Requires technical knowledge.

Online sitemaps - This is best for small websites. It’s easy, simple and online.Just go to this site and submit your url.Fill in some basic details like time and priority settings for the files and click go!The whole sitemap will be generated online.You will get both ROR file and the Google sitemap XML file.If you are interested only in Google, use the XML sitemap.The format is according to Google sitemap protocol and is faultless.
Best choice for beginners and small websites of less than 500 pages.

Gsite Crawler - This is a downloadable application. If your website is a bit large and you have time to tweak some settings and is serious about sitemap, then i would recommend this guy for you.

Click this link to learn how to install site map at Google Webmaster Tool.

Sitemap

How to make a sitemap for blogs.

Sitemaps are not necessary. Even if you don’t have sitemaps the crawlers will crawl your pages and find the content. But, it is like letting them crawl in a dark room. What if you had a well lit room with all navigation and helpers around which will take them to each room? It will be more effective right? Sitemaps serve this purpose. This helps the crawlers to undersand your site more effectively.

Step 1:

Login to sitemap account at Google webmaster tool.

At the top of screen you will see the option to add your site. Just paste the URL of your blog.

Click on Ok button. Next you will get confirmation message.

Step 2:

Now you need to verify your ownership of blog. Click on verify link. Google offers two methods of verification. You can either upload an HTML file with a name we specify (Which is not possible with Blogger account), or you can add a META tag to your site’s index file. Adding META tag via template code is possible. So just select Add a META tag from drop down menu:

It will generate code for you, copy the meta tag and paste it into your blog template section.

Step 3:

Go to your blogger.com and login to your account. Go to your blog > Click on Template
Paste the META tag code after section:

Click on Save Template changes button.

Step 4:

Then go to sitemap account and click the box that read as follows:

I’ve added the META tag in the home page of http://pagerankings.blogspot.com/. Click on Verify button.

Step 5:

Now your site is added to sitemap account and verification is done. Next you should need to add actual sitemap URL. Since blogger.com account allow you to create a text file or anything else you need to add your site feed (ATOM XML) file as a site map. Click on add a sitemap link:

Step 6:

You can add a Sitemap to your account to provide Google additional information about your blog. Google will process your sitemap and provide information on any errors in the sitemaps tab as well your sitemap will be downloaded everyday to index your blog fast.
Select type as : (Add General Web sitemap)

Now you need to add Atom 0.3 feeds. Generally, you would use this format only if your site already has a syndication feed and this is the only way to add sitemap to your blogger.com account.

Paste URL of your Atom feed: For example http://pagerankings.blogspot.com/atom.xml and click on Add Web sitemap.

You will get confirmation soon.Cheers !

www.pagerankings.blogspot.com/Sitemap