How To Submit Sitemap

October 18th, 2009 by Shah @ KBspot | Filed under Webmasters.

Google Webmaster Tools says,
Submit a Sitemap to tell Google about pages on your site we might not otherwise discover.

A sitemap is an XML file that contain a list of all the available urls in a website with some additional informations like when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in relation to other URLs in the site. Yes, a sitemap will surely help crawlers to do their job more effetively. Having a sitemap is surely a great advantage in this arena.

What should i do ?

First, get your free xml sitemap at www.xml-sitemaps.com . Dont worry, it’s so easy that you can get it done within 4 simple steps. Just fill in their Automated Sitemap Generator with your site address, choose a suitable values for the sitemap and hit Start. Your sitemap should be ready in just a minute (depends on your site size). Download the generated sitemap ( sitemap.xml ). Then upload it to the root of your site. The sitemap address should be like this :

http://www.yourwebsite.com/sitemap.xml

Second, get an account with Google Webmaster Tool. Login to your account and browse to Site Configuration > Sitemaps. Below is a picture of webmaster tool’s dashboard.

Google Webmaster Tool

Google Webmaster Tool

All sitemaps you submitted will be listed here. It may take two or three days for google webmaster tool to download your sitemap at first. After that it will download more regularly, so please remain calm. As you can see in picture above, it has downloaded both sitemaps and indexed some of the urls. Now. all you need to do is keep your xml sitemap updated.

Ok, that’s all for now. Hope this’ll help.

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9 Responses to “How To Submit Sitemap”

  1. Костя says:

    Буду знать, большое спасибо за помощь в этом вопросе.

  2. Хоть пару людей с пониманием нашлось

  3. moderator says:

    @Candance Letender , yes i am actually … i havent been diggin around for sitemap/webmaster tools since i put this here. Would you share some information ? , thanks

  4. Not using webmaster bots/software?? You’re missing out!

  5. moderator says:

    @Marleen Papka,
    traffic ? i can count them with my fingers. Thanks for the offer, i’ll talk to site admin bout it. Thanks for visiting & glad you like it.

  6. Hi, i must say fantastic website you have, i stumbled across it in Google. Does you get much traffic? If you wantto exchange the links with us please let me know.

  7. Molly says:

    Hello! Can you tell me how i can register mail at google google http://google.com