How
to Create a Sitemap |
A
sitemap of a website is similar to the table of contents of a
book. Sitemaps are important because it guides web surfers to
the
particular part of the website they have a point of interest in. With
it they would save time following links and get right to the point
instead.
Sitemaps are also where search engines
look at if
somebody is looking for a particular keyword or phrase. If you have a
site map, you can most likely be searched.
Creating
a sitemap,
now with software technology surging in, is relatively easier than
before. You need not be a programming guru to be one. All
need is
a notepad, a program editor, and some patience. Here?s how you do it:
Create the listing on a notepad.
It
doesn?t necessarily have to be a notepad. Any word processing program
will do. First off, make sure to type in all the parts and pieces of
your website. Include all pages and all links you have. Create it as if
you listing the contents of your book. Make a draft first. You?re sure
no to miss something out this way.
Create a new page for your
sitemap.
You
can insert the sitemap on your website on one of its pages or you can
create an entirely different page for it. Using your notepad,
incorporate all tags necessary to it to make another webpage. Open up
your website creator program and tag your sitemap using it. If you have
created your website on your own, this will be easy for you.
Create a link for the sitemap.
You
won?t be able to view the sitemap if you won?t put a link for it, of
course. Create the link on the front page of your website so that
visitors can view it right away and be directed appropriately.
Check your work.
It
is important to validate the functionality of the links you created on
the sitemap. Test each and every one in there and if you get an error,
be sure to fix it accurately. Run through every single page to make
sure that all are accounted for.
Upload your work.
Place
the sitemap now on your live browser and double check it. It should
function as smoothly as the dry run. Error should be minimal at this
stage since you already have verified it locally.
The
steps
provided herewith is the manual way of creating a sitemap. These days,
if you search hard enough on the web, you will find online programs
that will do all these work for you. All you have to do it type in the
URL or the link of your website and they will create the sitemap with
click of a button.
Of course that method is generic.
All of you
who have created their sitemap that way will have an end product that
is all the same, plus there?s that possibility that something else will
be inserted in there too. Then again, the process is less taxing and
way, way simpler.
But if you want a more
personalized output,
and you are pretty good with computers and programming yourself, better
make one of your own. And since you made your website anyway,
creating sitemap is just like creating any other page on the website.
Other than you?ll know for sure the links are accurate, you can
organize the links the way you prefer it to be. Major parts of the site
are emphasized compared to less significant. This is important
especially if you are selling products or offering services online.
Sitemap
is vital to a website. People search the web a lot for something. If
your website has what that particular person is looking for, and your
sitemap reports it, then you have a new customer looking at your
items. Not only that, they will see some other things up for
sale
that they might be interested in as well.
Sitemaps,
be it
generated by a program automatically or you made it yourself, presents
the same purpose. That is to lead your visitors to where they?re likely
headed, and for you to be seen on the World Wide Web through search
spiders. So with these, make sure your website has a sitemap
of
its own, lest make one.Copyright ©
Ferdinand Martinez
About
the Author
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Ferdinand
Martinez is the owner of the HomeBiz-Resources
Website. To
find the best home based business
ideas and
opportunities so you can work at home
visit:
http://www.HomeBiz-Resources.com
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