How To Create A Sitemap Or Have One Generated For You

[shadav]

Google Sitemap Generator
Description: Google sitemap Generator powered by Pingoat and recommended by google (http://code.google.com/s m_thirdparty.html) will crawl your website and create a sitemap in seconds. You can also choose upload the newly created file on your server using your FTP details.

ok I used the sitemap link i provided lol....i didn't feel comfy given them my ftp info so i downloaded the file myself...good thing i did cuz the links it was showing, i really didn't need google indexing (a bunch of flash files i have linked to on my foamy page)
you can either use theirs and then just edit it or make one

ok i'm not the best to explain this, but i'll try....

create a file named sitemap.xml and replace my info with your info

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84">

<url>
<loc>http://www.foamyfanatics.net</loc>
<lastmod>2006-12-06</lastmod>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
<priority>1.0</priority>
</url>

<url>
<loc>http://www.forum.foamyfanatics.net/</loc>
<lastmod>2006-12-06</lastmod>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
<priority>1.0</priority>
</url>
</urlset>

you can add more links by putting another

<url>
<loc>site</loc>
<lastmod>date</lastmod>
<changefreq>Frequancy</changefreq>
<priority>1.0</priority>
</url>

before the

</urlset>

i don't think the date of lastmod matters and the changefreq well you can have daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, never ... there may be others i'm not aware of
not too sure what priority is or does, i'm assuming 1 is the highest...

and you can only use the url that you are submiting for
I have 4 urls listed at google, 3 of which are the same site...but google sitemap doesn't like using other domain names for 1 site so I had to make 3 sitemaps (sitemap, sitemap1 and simtemap2) the 1st only with the .com urls the 2nd only with the .info urls and the 3rd only with the actually hosting (ie subdomain.host.tld) urls otherwise it kept coming back with errors when i had google check the sitemaps saying that the urls were invailed for that site...

so though it was a bit of a headache....i now have sitemaps and hopefully my site will be indexed and ranked a heck of a lot better.....

or you could use this site Free Sitemap Generator

[edit] doh...i guess i should say...and upload it to your public_html folder
then log into your https://www.google.com/accounts/Login and then click on webmaster tools if you haven't already, add your sites and then press on add a sitemap...it took about 10 to 20 minutes for google to check mine....after about 20 minutes check on your sitemap and it'll say pending, ok or error....hopefully it won't say anything else lol fix the errors with the sitemap if any until it says it's ok.....

[Yiwu]

Good tool, thx for sharing

[Lovely]

Useful Post, thanks for sharing!

[swkhod]

Nice sharing. i want to know that if i add new link in my sitemap.xml then should i have to resubmit it again in webmaster tool section in google Or crawler itself index newly added pages.
thanks

[shadav]

this just depends on your site...some sites the bots constantly crawl...some sites if you do not update content regularly will have to resubmit the sitemap to google to make sure that all the new links get crawled and indexed

[wolvie]

A good resource indeed.

I generate the sitemaps using the online tool www.freesitemapgenerator.com . It's easy with this tool but you have to wait for days for your sitemap to be created.

[davidgeo]

If its a small website, i would consider create a xml site map by myself, if its a large site, like e commerce, then i would recommend using http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/