Saturday, March 30, 2013

What is Sitemap? SEO!

Sitemap is a map of website like geographical map of any place which provides all details information about that particular place for instant, you are new in New York City and want to visit famous places but you do not have any geographical idea.



What will you do? Of course, your will buy a geographical map of New York City first, then with help of this map you will visit your all desired places. Like that every website have a sitemap which inform search engine what’s kind of information that website provides. It helps search engine to crawl each page of website including URL (text, audio, image or video) that may not searched by search engine’s normal crawling. In short, it is list of the pages on your websites. 



So it is necessary to create and submit a sitemap to search engine so that it can know about all pages of your website including URL which may not searched by normal crawling process as I mentioned above. 



You can submit a text, XML, or RSS/Atom feed as a Sitemap. You can create a Sitemap based on the Sitemap protocol or you can submit a metadata if have knowledge of HTML, which provide information about special types of content on your site including video, image, moble and news. 

Google is biggest search engine and it follows Sitemap Protocol 0.9 as defined by sitemaps.org.


There is example of text sitemap:

Home                                                      Bollywood  

Box Office                                               Hollywood   

Superstar                                                Preview & Review  

Bollywood 100 cr Club                         Career           

Cricket, TV & News                               Privacy Policy                                         

Disclaimer                                               More Fun


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