We all know that, google sitemap is benefit for both Google and site visitors.
A standard google sitemap would notify and help Google spider to crawl your site timely and regularly. thus, your site pages will be indexed more quickly than others' and you will be in the preemptive step to beat competitors.
You can follow the below steps:
1. Choose Dreamweaver or a plain-text editor as your sitemap editor.
2. Search a standard sitemap template from the internet.
3. Type the following code as the first two lines:
'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'
'<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">'
<loc>http://www.google.com</loc>
5. Type "</urlset>" as the last line of your sitemap.
Then, you need to submit your google sitemap to Google and you can use Google Webmaster tool to complete this process:
1. Add and verify your site.
2. Upload sitemap to your site server.
3. Select "Site configuration".
4. Click "Sitemaps" and "Add/Test Sitemap" buttons successively.
5. Fill the URL of your sitemap in the text box.
6. Click "Submit Sitemap".
But here comes the question: the above way is somewhat complicated and time-consuming and is just suitable for small sites, what about a large site and the one which is often changed? So, an automated tool is needed.
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No limitations on page numbers and page size
Built-in FTP client to upload sitemap to site server automatically
Identify problem pages
Ping major search engines: Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask, etc
Set a schedule to automate the whole process of sitemap generation and sitemap submission
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