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Sitemaps

Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.

The Sitemaps protocol allows a webmaster to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for crawling. A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a site. It allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in relation to other URLs in the site. This allows search engines to crawl the site more intelligently. Sitemaps are a URL inclusion protocol and complement robots.txt, a URL exclusion protocol.

• "What are Sitemaps?" <http://www.sitemaps.org/>.
• Wikipedia contributors. "Sitemaps." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 25 Jan. 2010. Web. 13 Feb. 2010.

Sitemaps Creator

• xml-sitemaps.com Create an XML sitemap that can be submitted to Google, Yahoo and other search engines to help them crawl your website better.

References

Ping Search Engines with your New Sitemap

• Bing.com http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=add_your_url/sitemap.xml