How to create Google Sitemaps

The real cool thing about “Google Sitemaps” IS it accepts RSS(Real Simple Syndication) and Atom feeds with the.XML extension as one of the accepted formats for submitting your websites Sitemap for inclusion in Google’s index.

 

This is just one of the four formats Google accepts and is the one that I’m going to use for the rest of this article to show you how to generate the own.XML sitemap of your website for inclusion in Google.

It’s real easy to do so don’t worry about it being too complicated.

What is Google Sitemaps?

Google Sitemaps enables Webmasters to Directly Alert Google to Changes and Additions on an internet site and that is only one of seven Benefits. it is the most vital development since RSS or Blog and Ping, to hit the web. it’s the potential to hurry up the method of discovery and addition of pages to Google’s index for any webmaster that uses Google Sitemaps.

Step #1. Sign up for “Google Sitemaps”.

This step is easy, simply follow the link provide below and sign up for a free account. It should only take you a few minutes to do, then once your done, come back here and go to Step #2.

Go to: http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login

Step #2. Generate your .XML sitemap.

In this step you are going to generate a.XML sitemap for your website using a Free online sitemap generator.

This Free online generator will build you a sitemap up to 500 pages. If you have a larger website with thousands of webpages you’ll have to use a paid service and/or software to generate yours.

Go to: http://www.xml-sitemaps.com

Enter your required information on the form provided.

Step #3. Upload your generated.XML sitemap to your server.

 

Once your generated sitemap is finished(your generated .XML file should be called site.xml.gz) it’s now time to upload it to your server using your FTP(File Transfer Protocol) program.

This is very important that you do this before submitting it to Google Sitemaps for inclusion.

Step #4. Submit your NEW.XML sitemap to “Google Sitemaps”.

 

Now that you have generated your “Sitemap” for your website and uploaded it to your server all you have to do now is to go to “Google Sitemaps” and submit your sitemap URL.

(ex. http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml.gz)

Now, depending on Google, your sitemap should get downloaded within the next 24 hours, so be sure to check and see that it did and that there weren’t any problems or errors.

Also, you’re going to want to be able to track your indexed webpages within the search engines, especially Google, so you can see how things are going, so I’ll leave you with one last resource that will do this for you.

Go to: http://www.uptimebot.com

All you have to do is enter your URL and click “GO”.

Well, there you have it… “4 Quick and EASY Steps To Get Your Website INDEX Fast On GOOGLE