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Fraise, it is a bit like a table of contents of your site. Large sites have them http://www.sustrans.org.uk/ See site map link near the top. Sometimes handy on larger sites if you can't find what you want. I don't have one but will do one if it helps with search engines.
Thanks for that Sue!!Won't an actual list of contents do?Think the thing I have running at the top of each page of my website is one of these? Or maybe not?
www.thepetitmanoir.com
www.thepetitmanoir.com
I am not following these things very carefully these days but I did read that a sitemap is useful to help a search engine spider get to all the pages on the site, and therefore hopefully index them all for the search engine. It doesn't boost you in the rankings, but it helps get the most pages included.
However, if you have a small site, 10 pages or less, and each page is linked to from the homepage, a sitemap isn't really necessary.
However, if you have a small site, 10 pages or less, and each page is linked to from the homepage, a sitemap isn't really necessary.
Paolo
Lay My Hat
Lay My Hat
This one worked for me and i certainly went up the google rankings in the months after creating it. Others available of course, and I too could not understand the google map instructions...
http://www.searchenginepromotionhelp.co ... reator.php
Tudor
www.frigiliana-apartment.com
http://www.searchenginepromotionhelp.co ... reator.php
Tudor
www.frigiliana-apartment.com
Sometimes i sits and thinks - and sometimes i just sits...
sitemap
joanna this may help
https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitem ... n/faq.html
you need to copy and paste into notepad and upload to your server
https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitem ... n/faq.html
you need to copy and paste into notepad and upload to your server
Joanna
I create a new page, give it a title description etc in the head section. Then paste all the html into the body bit and hey presto - you're there!
Tudor
www.frigiliana-apartment.com
I create a new page, give it a title description etc in the head section. Then paste all the html into the body bit and hey presto - you're there!
Tudor
www.frigiliana-apartment.com
Sometimes i sits and thinks - and sometimes i just sits...
Hi
I've been quietly following this thread.
I created a sitemap page and linked to it from each page when I couldn't get all the menu options on every page. This was a couple of years ago, and it certainly helped google find more pages.
I recently also added a URL sitemap page because google currently consistently misses 100+ pages from my site. Didn't work.
I registered with the google sitemaps service a few days ago, gave my URL, uploaded the confirmation file, but found the XML sitemap protocol too complex.
Looking today, they still miss 100+ pages, but "web pages containing .." my URL have increased from 900 to 9900 . Curious !
I've just sorted out how to do the plain text version and uploaded it. It currently says pending, so we will see.
The plain text version is pretty simple to do.
Registering your URL alone gives some interesting stats.
Peter
I've been quietly following this thread.
I created a sitemap page and linked to it from each page when I couldn't get all the menu options on every page. This was a couple of years ago, and it certainly helped google find more pages.
I recently also added a URL sitemap page because google currently consistently misses 100+ pages from my site. Didn't work.
I registered with the google sitemaps service a few days ago, gave my URL, uploaded the confirmation file, but found the XML sitemap protocol too complex.
Looking today, they still miss 100+ pages, but "web pages containing .." my URL have increased from 900 to 9900 . Curious !
I've just sorted out how to do the plain text version and uploaded it. It currently says pending, so we will see.
The plain text version is pretty simple to do.
Registering your URL alone gives some interesting stats.
Peter