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10 Minutes to Your Google Sitemap

by Ron Hutton (Video 00:21:46)

Google's calling your name... build your sitemap and we willl come spider your site. This free video tutorial shows you how easy it is to create an XML sitemap for Google and submit it for a quick visit from the Googlebot.

Ron Hutton
Ormond Beach, FL
Expertise: Internet Marketing

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10 Minutes to Your Google Sitemap...
(c) Ron Hutton, GoThrive.com
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Google's calling your name...

Hi, Google here.  We want to index your website...

Is anyone there?

This article has a free corresponding online video tutorial that
shows you how to summons the magic Googlebot to spider and index
every page on your website, and it will only take about 10
minutes of your time.

Go here now to watch exactly what to do, step-by-easy-step...

http://freeiq.com/10minutegooglesitemap

What you have access to with the new Google Sitemaps program is
truly a gift from the Google gods.  They've offering you a tool
that you can use to keep your site constantly indexed and updated
in the search engine database.  With Google Sitemaps, webmasters
can now take charge and make sure that their entire site is
crawled and indexed.

One important note to make is that the Google Sitemaps program
will not necessarily improve the ranking of your site's pages.
It only ensures that Google knows what you've got online for them
to look at.

Before reading the following statement, promise yourself that you
won't stop reading if you see a term that seems a little scary.
OK?  Promise?  Good.  Go ahead and keep reading then.

The format specified by Google for "their" sitemap is XML
(extensible markup language).  Did I loose you yet?  No?  Good
again.

You do not need to understand how to code XML to participate in
the Google Sitemap program.  There are plenty of free online
tools that will create your XML sitemap for you with no XML
knowledge required on your part.  More on this in a second.

What information is including in this XML sitemap?

1) The URL for every file on your website.

2) A relative priority rank that you can assign telling Google
which pages on your site are most important for them to look at.

3) The date last modified for each page.

4) Anticipated change frequency per URL.  This again is a
variable that you control.

According to Google, your XML sitemap can include up to 50,000
URL's.  If your site is a real monster and has in excess of
50,000 URL's, then you'll need to create a hierarchy of sitemaps
with one leading to the next.  This way you'll be able to lead
Google to all of your pages.

The options for generating and maintaining your Google Sitemap
range from complex systems that are highly automated to very
simple systems using online sitemap generators that require
nothing more than clicking a few buttons.

Google now keeps a list of these 'third party suppliers' of
generators on their site. Find them here: 
http://code.google.com/sm_thirdparty.html

The program that's demonstrated in our free video tutorial
(http://freeiq.com/10minutegooglesitemap) is found here:
http://www.auditmypc.com/free-sitemap-generator.asp

In a nutshell, here are the steps involved with using online
generators:

1) Start the program.
2) Enter your site's URL
3) Click the "Start Crawling" button
4) Customize URL priorities and change frequencies
5) Save the site map to your local hard drive
6) Upload your new Google XML sitemap to your website in the root
directory (where your home page resides)
7) Validate your new sitemap 
(can be done here: 
http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/internet/google/submit-validate-sitemap/
8) Submit your XML sitemap to Google.

You can access the pages for the Google Sitemap program here:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login

8 steps in about 10 minutes.  That's all there is to it.

One question that you might ask is whether or not you still need
an HTML sitemap, and the answer is "Yes, you still need your
conventional sitemap".  XML sitemaps are not intended for human
visitors.  To see what I mean, take a look at the two following
sitemaps:

HTML sitemap: http://www.gothrive.com/sitemap.html

XML sitemap: http://www.gothrive.com/sitemap.xml

Which version do you prefer?  Your visitors will like the HTML
and Google prefers XML.

When you add pages or new content to your site and you want
Google to go back to have a fresh look, just log in to your
Google Sitemaps control panel, select the sitemap to revisit, and
click "Resubmit".  It's never been easier to get Google to spider
and index a website.  Don't miss your opportunity to use this
tool to your advantage.

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