Significane of Site Maps

A site map (or sitemap ) is a web page that lists the pages on a web site , typically organized in hierarchical fashion . This helps visitors and search engine bots find pages on the site . An example is the one on EFF 's (Electronic Frontier Foundation ) page

Site maps can improve search engine optimization of a site by making sure that all the pages can be found . This is especially important if a site uses Macromedia Flash or JavaScript menus that do not include HTML links

Site maps do have limitations . Most search

engines will only follow a finite number of links from a page , so if a site is very large additional strategies besides the site map may be required so that search engines and visitors can access all content on the site

While some developers argue that site index is a more appropriately used term to relay page function , web visitors are used to seeing each term and generally associate both as one and the same

XML Sitemaps

Google introduced Google Sitemaps so web developers can publish lists of links from across their sites . The basic premise is that some sites have a large number of dynamic pages that are only available through the use of forms and user entries . The sitemap s can then be used to indicate to a web crawler how such pages can be found

Google , MSN and Yahoo now jointly support the Sitemaps protocol

References

HYPERLINK "http /www .sitemaps .org /protocol .html " \o "http /www .sitemaps .org /protocol .html " Specification of the common XML format

External links

HYPERLINK "http /www .sitemaps .org " \o "http /www .sitemaps .org Common Official Website Site common to Google , Yahoo , MSN for an XML sitemap format

HYPERLINK "http /www .google .com /press /pressrel /sitemapsorg .html " \o "http /www .google .com /press /pressrel /sitemapsorg .html " Joint announcement from Google , Yahoo , MSN supporting Sitemaps

HYPERLINK "http /www .scriptet .com /simple-map .html " \o "http /www .scriptet .com /simple-map .html " Tips about Sitemaps Build a sitemap at a mouse click with an open-source sitemap generator (XML text or HTML

HYPERLINK "http /it .geocities .com /teutoburgo /java /jsitemap .html " \o "http /it .geocities .com /teutoburgo /java /jsitemap .html " JSiteMap A Java open source site map generator

HYPERLINK "http /www .feedthebot .com /sitemaps .html " \o "http /www .feedthebot .com /sitemaps .html " Sitemap guidance Offers advice for sitemap usability

HYPERLINK "http /www .AutoMapIt .com " \o "http /www .AutoMapIt .com AutoMapIt A free sitemap service with updates

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