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Create a Google XML Sitemap (the free and easy way)

Posted by Jonathan Kelp at 10:16 am

Sitemaps tell search engines about URLs on a website that are available for crawling. If you want to get visitors from search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing, then it makes sense to use a sitemap to tell them about your website pages. I like to use XML-sitemaps.com.

1. Go to http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ to create your free and easy sitemap.
2. Enter your website address in the field “Starting URL” and press the “Start” button.
3. When the site is done generating your sitemap, click on the link to download your sitemap in XML format.
4. Upload your XML sitemap to your website.
5. Notify Google that your sitemap exists by entering the following URL into your web browser: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mysite.com/my-sitemap-location.xml.Be sure to replace www.mysite.com/my-sitemap-location.xml with the location of your sitemap on your website.

A maximum of 500 pages will be indexed in your sitemap. If you need to create a sitemap with more than 500 pages, you will need to use the unlimited version for the price of $19.99.