PHP & Web Development :: Google Sitemap Generator

Bullet Google Sitemap Generator

Bullet Generate Sitemap
Site URI Example: http://www.amazon.com
Addtl. Hub Pages
(separate by commas)

Example: http://www.google.com/webmasters, http://www.google.com/ads
Last Mod Date Optional, use format YYYY-MM-DD
Change Frequency Optional
Priority Optional

Bullet About Google Sitemaps

Google SitemapsWebmasters use Google Sitemaps to give the Google search engine additional information about their site. This xml-formatted site information can effect how often Google crawls your site, and the ranking of one page within a site compared to another. Google sitemap usage has exploded in popularity, and Google has 50% of the search market share, making your Google ranking extremely important.

To use Google Sitemaps, you must signup and create a free Google account. Google Sitemaps Home. Next, you must upload a sitemap to your server and then tell Google the location of this file. Google will continue to download this file regularly to assess any changes. Above is a Google Sitemap Generator that will create your sitemap for you.

Bullet After Sitemap Creation

Now that you have your sitemap created, you should go through and edit the priority numbers, setting the most important pages of your site higher than unimportant pages. The valid range for this value is 0.0 - 1.0.