We can now make it even easier for search engines to index our webpages through our website site maps by adding a simple line of text to the robots txt file within our code. You can now specify the location of the sitemap using the robots.txt file by simply adding the following line to it:
Sitemap: < sitemap_location >
For example, the information required for the Com.Motion website robots txt file would be:
Sitemap: < http://www.com-motionuk.com/sitemap.xml >
Search engines supporting the sitemap protocol will be able to retrieve the sitemap and process the web pages you want indexed accordingly. Search engines that currently use this process include Google, Yahoo, MSN and ASK.
Site Map Creation Tool
Visit the following website to access a free online website site map tool that creates a txt, xml or html site map for you for free (restricted to 500 urls) - XML-Sitemaps
All protocols regarding website sitemaps can be found at the following location – Sitemaps.org
For information - follow this link to read what we said about website site maps in December of last year - Website Sitemaps - Google, Yahoo & MSN
Post date 03/07/2007
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