Submit Xml Sitemap To Major Search Engines Fast And Free

A website needs to have a sitemap for search engines to crawl to your sites, making it easy for them to index all your web pages and they will in turn reward you for making it easy for them. As the previous old school type of sitemap is only a web page that has all the links to all other web pages in your website.

Currently there is a new type of sitemap that is far more effective than the previous sitemap, it is call xml sitemap, and is getting more popular than the previous. Before I introduce the new xml sitemap, let me introduce you to the:

History of Sitemap

As there were a lot of web pages in the world that were not indexed by search engines, Google though of an idea in June 2005 of using a web page that can link to all web pages in the website. That was the beginning of sitemap. Then Yahoo and MSN joined in the sitemap idea in Nov 2006.

Sitemap is based on the “Crawler-friendly Web Servers” for all search engines.

The Beginning of XML Sitemap

As the world of Internet evolve and changes, so has the sitemap format. The XML sitemap is using UFT-8, you can read more on what it is by clicking on the link.

What this does is a more simpler and effective way of generating web page links of the website without webmaster or you to place a link in the sitemap. This is all done in automatic mode.

How to Place XML Sitemap onto Website?

There are a few ways that can be done, I will only recommend using Google Webmaster Tools to do the job. First you will need to sign up for a Google websmaster tool account.

Then to verify your website belong to you, by FTPing the code that Google Webmaster Tool has generated. When it is being verified, click on the your domain name link in Google Webmaster Tools, and you will see ‘Submit a Sitemap’, click the link.

Click ‘Submit a Sitemap’ on the new page, type in the sitemap.xml and click submit.

Now that you have sumitted the sitemap, you must remember the URL for the XML sitemap.

Now you will need to place the XML sitemap on every web page as an anchor text, use ’sitemap’ as the anchor text. If you are using CSS for your website, place the ‘Sitemap’ anchor text on the footer of the website.

There you go, now you have submitted a sitemap, and as well as placing your sitemap link on your website. This way, Google, Yahoo and Bing will thank you for helping them to find your web pages easier. They will reward you by ranking you well in the search engines.

If you have any additional way to submitting XML sitemap, please share with me and others what you know, I am looking forward to hearing you soon.

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