How to Create a Google Sitemap?
As we know, Google is the major search engine and so boosting your website in a Google is a necessary for all the website owners.
To boost a ranking in a Google, it becomes necessary to submit all your web pages in Google. One can submit their web pages in Google by creating and submitting Google Sitemap or XML Sitemap. Here SYSPC will help users having queries like:
- How to create a sitemap for google?
- How to create XML sitemap?
- How to make a Google Sitemap?
Create a Google Sitemap or XML Sitemap
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.syspc.org/</loc>
<lastmod>2005-06-30T14:12:14+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
<priority>1.0</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.syspc.org/seo/</loc>
<lastmod>2005-06-30T14:12:14+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>1.0</priority>
</url>
</urlset>
Help on above terms:
lastmod - Here users will have to put the date the document was last modified.
loc - Here users will put the url of each webpage of the website.
changefreq - Tells Google Sitemaps the frequently that content of a particular URL will change. Ant the options are: "always", "hourly", "daily", "weekly", "monthly", "yearly" or "never".
priority - The priority of a particular URL relative to other pages on your site. Fior example: 0.1, 1.0 where 0.1 is the lowest priority pages as compared to 1.0 higher priority pages.
Add as many pages as there are in your website. Google Sitemap supports up to 50,000 pages per XML file.
Still Confused? Users can also create their Google Sitemap online without writing the above xml code. Simply, go to www.xml-sitemaps.com and follow the instructions.
Submit a Google Sitemap
To submit a Google Sitemap, go to https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login. Users must have Google Account to submit their XML Sitemap in Google.
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