How To Create Google Sitemaps In 7 Easy Steps

[Nelson Tan]

In case you haven't heard of Google Sitemaps (BETA), it is a new
program set up by Google to encourage webmasters to create a special
XML-format sitemap file for Google to spider through. If you go
through the official page, you will find yourself boggled if you are
not very good at programming.

Thankfully, here's a very simple method for you to create such a
sitemap in 7 easy steps so you don't have to spend $97 on some
software that purports to do the same thing automatically. You betcha,
people are charging a premium for doing the thing which you can
without taking out your wallet.

So, to create a Google sitemap:

1) Create an xml sitemap at http://www.sitemapspal.com.

2) Simply type in your url address and click submit.

3) Copy and paste the code into a new HTML file and save it as
sitemap.xml.

4) FTP it to your host.

5) Go here to log in if you already have an account:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login using the same
username and password as you would to log in to GMail. Ask for
invitation.

6) Inform Google about your sitemap location using the HTTP request,
like this: www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml.gz
and wait!

7) After 10-24 hrs, do your URL search on Google.com. Index page
should be picked up.


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