Ways To Make Money - The Anatomy of a Sitemap

One of the best ways to make money, is to focus on being highly efficient with what you already have. For instance, most Internet Marketers have their own website. However, very few Internet Marketers have done anything to optimize their website for the search engines. One of the most critical components to search engine optimization is the sitemap. Nowadays, there exists software which makes it simple for anyone to create a sitemap.

 

All search engine optimization consultants as well as beginners in SEO should be familiar by now with the notion of sitemap. Nevertheless, not all online businesses seem to understand the importance of having a sitemap as part of search engine marketing strategy.

 

As the name suggests, a sitemap is a map of your site. It is a one page structure of your site, which includes its sections as well as the links between them. Sitemaps represent the way a sitemap communicates with search engines. Just as through robots.txt you tell search engines which parts of your site to include and which pages to exclude from indexing, through your sitemap you guide search engines about the main categories, sub-categories and products in an orderly fashion. Complex sites with thousands of products need a well designed site map to enable site visitor understand the whole site in nut shell. Therefore, it is advisable for you to create an HTML site map for the site visitors and an XML map for robots of search engines.

 

Webmasters can easily generate a Sitemap containing all accessible URLs on the site and submit it to search engines. Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask are all using the same protocol at the moment. Therefore, it is easy to submit your sitemap to all in the same format. The submission to search engines is a very straightforward process: once you have created the sitemap, you need to upload it to your site and notify search engines.

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow crawlers that support Sitemaps to pick up all URLs in the Sitemap and learn about those URLs using the associated metadata. Using the Sitemap protocol does not guarantee that web pages are included in search engines, but provides hints for web crawlers to do a better job of crawling your site.

 

From a search engine optimization perspective there are a number of benefits for using a Sitemap:

 

 

• Get easier navigation and better visibility from search engines.

 

 

 

• It is of high importance for new sites to have a Sitemap: it speeds the process of indexing pages.

 

 

 

• A Sitemap gives you more freedom regarding your relation to external links, which usually have the role of bringing search engines to your site.

 

 

 

• It can be of help with accidentally broken internal links or orphaned pages that cannot be reached in other ways.

 

 

 

• It is of great help in classifying your site content better. Although it does not mean the search engines will necessarily classify a page as belonging to a particular category or as matching a particular keyword only because of your sitemap, there is an increased likelihood that they would.

 

 

 

• A Sitemap gives you more freedom regarding your relation to external links, which usually have the role of bringing search engines to your site.

 

 

Both humans and spiders (such as GoogleBot) give a high importance to sitemaps. As mentioned above, it makes it user friendly for humans and easier for spiders to 'see' it. After all, it makes no sense to search for new ways to make money if no one is going to see your website. Make your website visible with a sitemap.

 

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