Officially announced on June 6th,
2005 at Google's Blog, Google Site Map allows you to
submit a listing of all your urls for Google to crawl.
There have been many questions concerning the procedure
of creating a Google Site Map. Below is the non-Python
way of creating one. (Note: Google has further
documentation at their site)
First, create a file named sitemap.xml
Use the following code in any HTML editor:
<?xml version="1.0"
encoding="UTF-8"?><br>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84"><br>
<url><br>
<loc>http://www.seoforgoogle.com/</loc><br>
<lastmod>2005-06-30T14:12:14+00:00</lastmod><br>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq><br>
<priority>1.0</priority><br>
</url><br>
<url><br>
<loc>http://www.seoforgoogle.com/glossary.cfm</loc><br>
<lastmod>2005-06-30T14:12:14+00:00</lastmod><br>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq><br>
<priority>1.0</priority><br>
</url><br>
</urlset>
Here's a breakdown of those properties:
lastmod -
This is the date the document was last modified and uses
the following formats:
dd.mm.yyyy
dd.mm.yyyy hh:mm
dd/mm/yyyy
dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm
changefreq -
Tells Google Sitemaps the frequently that content of a
particular URL will change.
Your options are "always", "hourly", "daily", "weekly",
"monthly", "yearly" or "never".
The value "always" should be used to describe documents
that change each time they are accessed. The value
"never" should be used to describe archived URLs.
priority -
The priority of a particular URL relative to other pages
on your site.
You may select between 0.0 and 1.0, where 0.0 identifies
the lowest priority page(s) on your website and 1.0
identifies the highest priority page(s) on your website.
Add as many pages as there are in your website.
Google Sitemap supports up to 50,000 pages per XML file.
Once you've completed all of those steps, you'll need to
submit your site map page.
Submit to: (requires gmail account)
https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login
