Google Sitemaps is an easy way for you to submit all your URLs to the Google index and get detailed reports about the visibility of your pages on Google.
Advantages
- Better crawl coverage and fresher search results to help people find more of your web pages.
- A smarter crawl because you can tell us when a page was last modified or how frequently a page changes.
- Detailed reports to learn more about how Google directs traffic to your site and how the Googlebot sees your pages.
How you do it ?
- Creating a Sitemap in a supported format.
- Adding the Sitemap to your Google Sitemaps account.
- Updating your Sitemap when your site changes.
Creating the sitemap is tricky for one how would not know xml. One would need to create a file name with an extension .xml in a notepad. Then for each link that you want google to index you would have to put in the code. Check the one i have for my site.
http://www.selbourne.com/sitemap.xml
loc == the url that you want google to index.
lastmod == when was the file last modified by you.
changefreq == how often will the contents of the file change. This would enable google to index these pages often to fetch the updated content
priority == The priority attribute gives Google information about the relative importance of this page compared to the other pages of your site.
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