www.dotcomhunter.com How to create a sitemap A sitemap of a website is similar to the table of contents of a book. Sitemaps are important because it guides web surfers to the particular part of the website they have a point of interest in. With it they woul d save time following links and get right to the point instead. Sitemaps are also where search engines look at if somebody is lookin g for a particular keyword or phrase. If you have a site map, you ca n most likely be searched. Creating a sitemap, now with software technology surging in, is rela tively easier than before. You need not be a programming guru to be one. All need is a notepad, a program editor, and some patience. He re’s how you do it: Create the listing on a notepad. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a notepad. Any word processing progr am will do. First off, make sure to type in all the parts and pieces o f your website. Include all pages and all links you have. Create it as if you listing the contents of your book. Make a draft first. You’re sure no to miss something out this way. Create a new page for your sitemap. You can insert the sitemap on your website on one of its pages or yo u can create an entirely different page for it. Using your notepad, incorporate all tags necessary to it to make another webpage. Open u p your website creator program and tag your sitemap using it. If you have created your website on your own, this will be easy for you. Create a link for the sitemap. You won’t be able to view the sitemap if you won’t put a link for it, o f course. Create the link on the front page of your website so that vis itors can view it right away and be directed appropriately. Check your work. It is important to validate the functionality of the links you created on the sitemap. Test each and every one in there and if you get an erro r, be sure to fix it accurately. Run through every single page to make sure that all are accounted for. Upload your work. A gift from www.dotcomhunter.comwww.dotcomhunter.com Place the sitemap now on your live browser and double check it. It sho uld function as smoothly as the dry run. Error should be minimal at th is stage since you already have verified it locally. The steps provided herewith is the manual way of creating a sitemap. T hese days, if you search hard enough on the web, you will find online programs that will do all these work for you. All you have to do it ty pe in the URL or the link of your website and they will create the sit emap with click of a button. Of course that method is generic. All of you who have created their si temap that way will have an end product that is all the same, plus the re’s that possibility that something else will be inserted in there to o. Then again, the process is less taxing and way, way simpler. But if you want a more personalized output, and you are pretty good w ith computers and programming yourself, better make one of your own. And since you made your website anyway, creating sitemap is just lik e creating any other page on the website. Other than you’ll know for sure the links are accurate, you can organize the links the way you p refer it to be. Major parts of the site are emphasized compared to le ss significant. This is important especially if you are selling produ cts or offering services online. Sitemap is vital to a website. People search the web a lot for somethi ng. If your website has what that particular person is looking for, an d your sitemap reports it, then you have a new customer looking at you r items. Not only that, they will see some other things up for sale t hat they might be interested in as well. Sitemaps, be it generated by a program automatically or you made it yourself, presents the same purpose. That is to lead your visitors t o where they’re likely headed, and for you to be seen on the World W ide Web through search spiders. So with these, make sure your websi te has a sitemap of its own, lest make one. A gift from www.dotcomhunter.com
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