Wednesday, September 24, 2014

How to Create Manual Sitemap.

Xml sitemap help us to get index and notice all our pages on web. There has many free tool which help you to get sitemap in a minute. But if you want to create it manual it will be great.
Here is simple and easy way to create site map.



1. Make a urllist
2. Download xml editor 
3. Make sure to dont ad 404 pages.

1. First lines of the file:
2. Create an entry for each URL. The tag is required, the others are optional.
   
    http://www.example.com/
    2005-01-01
    monthly
    0.8
 

Note : 1. Start with home and services page with 0.9 priority (Valid range is from 0.0 to 1.0 (highest). Than, 0.8, 0.7, 0.6, 0.5, 0.4, 0.3
2. Its For crawlers to know which pages are considered more important.

3. Last line of the file:

4. Update it.. Check it local server.

5. Upload the file to server and then submit it to webmaster.

6. After live - Submit xml to a search engine directory.(aka. pinged)

    Google – http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=location
   
Keep in mind when creating XML-

  • limit of 50,000 URLs.
  • No larger than 10MB
  • can contain only ASCII characters.