FREE Site Map Generator ROR (RSS)

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Everybody knows that getting indexed in Google is getting more and more difficult each day and every body is looking for that edge over the competition. Most "white hat" SEO's frown upon methods like cloaking, blog and ping and other such "black hat" techniques and never had any special technique that they could use to help get their pages indexed better.

Well, presenting Google Sitemaps, Googles latest offering which is still in the beta stage, and which won't make the purists frown. https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/stats Google sitemaps is a service that allows webmasters to define how often their sites' content is going to change, which is supposed to give Google a better idea of what pages to index. By placing a specially formatted XML file on your web server, you inform Google of whenever your pages change, and then the googlebot crawls the updated pages making the necessary updates to its database.

Google has provided the format your xml file has to be in at: https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/protocol.html An interesting point is that the xml file has 2 tags, changefreq and priority with which you can also indicate how important each page is, and how frequently the page changes. The valid values for changefreq are "always", "hourly", "daily", "weekly", "monthly", "yearly" and "never" and similarly the priority can vary from 0.0 to 1.0, where 0.0 identifies the lowest priority page(s) on your site and 1.0 identifies the highest priority page(s) on your site. Once you have the xml file in place on your server, you need to inform Google about it by opening this URL in your browser http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=URL where the URL part in the above URL should be the URL-encoded location of your Sitemaps xml file.

Now Google has provided an open source script that will automatically generate the xml file for you. The only drawback being its in a scripting language called Python. There are however several Free Third Party scripts and tools available. So, go ahead and make your website more Google-friendly.

About The Author: Satyajeet Hattangadi is the Owner of Novasoft Inc http://www.novasoft-inc.com/products.asp, creators of Adsense Cloaker http://www.AdsenseCloaker.com, a unique php script that hides your adsense ads from the robots and helps prevent de-indexing by yahoo.

Download and install this free site map generator compatible with Google format as well as all the major search engines. Installing a site map on your website enables the efficient crawling of your whole site by search engines, thus speeding the process of indexing and maintaining current site info on the search results.

Get your free site map generator below:

(Google site map compatable)