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What Next
In a few hours time, Google will read the file on your web site. When you revisit your account area on Google it will tell you if there are any errors in your sitemap.xml file. If there are then have a look at the hints given in the Troubleshooting Guide. The commonest error is that each of your URLs must go on a new line. Check your FTP software is uploading in Text mode if you are sure your source file is okay.
Step 6:
Once you have a working sitemap.xml file on your web site and Google is happy reading it then go back to your text editor and duplicate Line 3 for each additional page on your web site. Edit as
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required to match the names of your pages and make sure each <url> ... </url> reference goes on a new line. Save. Upload.
1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
The QuickStart Guide to Site Maps is only intended to get you going with the minimum requirements for a small web site. Include references to all the pages you would like indexed because Google will probably remove previously indexed pages if you fail to mention them. There are more options you can use in your site map and full details can be found in the XML Tag Definitions. Google also have a free script that can create a site map for your web site. Unfortunately it requires installation on a web server and looks more trouble than it is worth but if you search the net you can find lots of emerging software that looks very promising. Some are also available with free trial periods such as the A1 Sitemap Generator, which can create text, HTML, RSS and XML sitemaps to help search engines like Google and Yahoo to crawl and index your web site.
4. Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
Examples you can use include Ask, Yahoo! and Google. For Bing (MSN) use Bing and MoreOver. For Weblogs you will also need to submit a site name:
http://rpc.weblogs.com/pingSiteForm?name=example&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2Fsitemap.xml
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n.b. for html validation you may need to encode your ampersand, using <&> instead of <&>
Thank you
If you found this guide useful I would be grateful if you could mention it on your web site or blog and link back to our home page. Thank you! The QuickStart Guide to Site Maps - www.sitemapxml.co.uk
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