Sitemap, for the adventurous virtual world of course, already familiar with the terms of this one, however, for you who are new or even a longer pursue webmasters certainly an obligation to find out. It is the dream for the owner of the web site in order to appear on search engines with the purpose of the information set forth can be enjoyed by readers or users. Sitemap or often called a site map is something that more or less describes the map of the website, which is all the information about the pages or files that have a website. This sitemap is intended for search engines (search engines) can easily search the contents of a website. How this sitemap creation, here does are the steps to create a sitemap;
- Preparation Steps
- Sitemap Creation
Preparation Steps
before you create a sitemap, you should do first “verification” ownership of the site. Go to the following address;
http://google.com/webmasters
Then you select or click “Tools Webmaster (Webmasters complete with Sitemap)”. Next you’re asked to log in via a Google account you have. After logging in, enter the name of the website to be your verification and then click OK. For example;
www.mysite.com
mysite.domain.com ~ (for sub domains)
Depending on your type of web domains. After you click, not long then you will see a screen where you will be faced with two options as a verification method claim, that you’re the owner of the site/website. Verification method is;
- META Tag Method
- Methods HTML File
- META Tag Method
when you select the option for a “Meta Tags” will appear a series of letters and numbers or call it code. Place this code on your web pages in a way public_html copy and paste and put among the “Tag head and body”. This code is an acknowledgment or claim that you’re the owner of the site. Once you put it on a page public_html, immediately return to the page where you perform verification and then click the “verification”.
Methods HTML File
When you select the verify option “HTML File” same as above will appear also a series of letters and numbers or call it code. The next step you are told to make ” empty file “on your web page public_html and rename the file like the code shown above. When finished creating the empty file, get you back on the page where you perform verification and then you click the” verification”. And if the process of verification that you are doing right, it would appear the statement that the site or a website you have the verification.
Sitemap Creation
If the ownership verification process a site that you do has been completed, the next step is to create a sitemap. Immediately you out of session verification process and steps toward making the sitemap. For making a sitemap you can visit at;
http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ a web host that provides manufacturing services for free sitemap. After entering the free webhost’s page above, select / click <em> “sitemaps generator free online”, soon will appear where you must fill in the URL address of the website you are going to make, also include the last time I modified / changefreq period(always, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or never) as well as priority listing of search engine Google. After everything is loaded, then press the “Start”. Then you try to watch the results on the page above, there are words that are more or less thus: “There are two steps left here download the sitemap file and upload it into the public_html” folder of your site “, then click the link” here “and the results upload to your web page public_html and rename the file with the sitemap.xml.
When you have finished making the sitemap, go back to the http://google.com/webmasters where just like you make a claim vertyfikasi website as above, then click the name of the website you listed there and click again “configuration” which listed the top left corner and then click again “sitemap”. Enter the type of sitemap that will tell you before (sitemap.xml), and then click “send”. If the process that you do succeed, it will appear that says more or less as follows: “You have been submitted sitemaps ….”
Here, is an example sitemap.xml;
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> - <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" schemalocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd"> - <url> <loc>http://mysite.com/ </loc> <lastmod>2009-09-26T14:37:21+00:00</lastmod> <changefreq>weekly</changefreq> <priority>1.00</priority> </url> - <url> <loc>http://mysite.com/artikel.html</loc> <lastmod>2009-09-26T14:37:21+00:00</lastmod> <changefreq>weekly</changefreq> <priority>0.80</priority> </url> - <url> <loc>http://mysite.com/sitemap.html</loc> <lastmod>2009-09-26T14:37:21+00:00</lastmod> <changefreq>weekly</changefreq> <priority>0.80</priority> </url> - </urlset>