How To Create A Sitemap

Use this tutorial and learn how to create a sitemap now …

If you have not yet verified your website with Google Webmaster Tools, learn how to do this here.

 1. First go to www.google.com an type in “google sitemap online” and select the option www.xml-sitemap.com .

2. Scroll down the page until you come to a heading called “Starting URL” and enter your websites full URL e.g. http://www.howtowebsite.co.uk . Amend the frequency to how often you update your website, keep Last Modification the same, choose “Automatic Priority” and then select “Start”

3. Simply wait for the sitemap generation to complete.

4. Once this process is complete you will be presented with a list of option as show below. Under “Download un-compressed XML sitemap”.

5. And proceed to save “sitemap.xml” in a safe and convenient place on your computer, i have save mine on my desktop for easy access. Click “Save”

6. You will now have to upload this sitemap.xml file on to your web server in the root directory where you index.html or index.php etc file is. You can learn How To Upload A Website Using FTP here. As soon as you have successfully uploaded this sitemap.xml to your web serve you may move on to the next step.

7. Sign in to your Google Webmaster Account. And select “Sitemaps” on the left hand side.

8. On this page you will have the ability to specify the address of the sitemap.xml file on your website server. In the box provided simply type in sitemap.xml and select “Submit Sitemap“ 

9. After you have done this you may have to wait a while for Google to detect this sitemap on your server and you will receive a confirmation message as shown below.

Congratulations you have successfully added a sitemap to you Google Webmaster Tools Account.

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