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garygoh
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# Posted: 22 May 2009 02:35
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Hi All
I am currently managing several websites but none of them have a site map. Just wondering is it important to have one? How would it affect my websites as some of my websites are currently having a PR3.
For your information, all my websites are organized in a "flat structure" manner
Thanks for your advice.
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# Posted: 22 May 2009 16:03
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Hi Gary,
It helps spiders index your pages.
If you have many pages, it can work like a table of contents for human visitors.
If you have several dozen pages or more, I suggest creating a site map.
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cherie27
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# Posted: 25 Jun 2009 21:40
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Try this website to create your sitemap
http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
It is simple and easy.
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GlennELee
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# Posted: 27 Jun 2009 22:39
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Sitemaps basically help the search engines know where your content is. It's extremely helpful for them to have them and can cause your website you're attempting to promote to get indexed that much quicker and better if you have one. Also there may be places on your site that wouldn't normally get indexed by Google's spider, one of the first places that Google does check is the sitemap provided you have one tethered with your igoogle account.
I'd recommend going to www.igoogle.com and logging in with your google account. From there you'll need to add your domain name and verify that you own the domain name. From there, it'll ask you to verify via either an HTML file or a meta tag on your index or root of your server. Do this then tell Google to verify the domain name. Once done, you'll have it set.
You'll then be able to have google set up with your XML sitemap file in order to index your sitemap. This does seriously help with SEO purposes and is strongly recommended for most sites to have them that have a dozen or more pages to index.
Also if you haven't done so, if there are places on your site that you don't want Google to index, you'll want to set a robots.txt file on the root of your server (Usually Public_HTML) so that you can have some stuff left private out of searches.
Hope this information was informative enough to help you out making the decision you need to make and help you do what you need to should you decide to get the sitemap done.
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