by cbnet
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I have following three questions (i) What is a sitemap? (ii) How it is created and (iii) Suppose, if your site is half complete & you create a site map. What will happen to your sitemap, when you add more menu s, contents, pages to your site. Will your sitemap be updated itself or if you have to do something to update the sitemap every time when you add more to your site or when you modify your site.

I am using WP.

Regards.........cbnet
#sitemap #website
  • Profile picture of the author htmlthis
    Sitemap are useful to get your website crawled better by search engines.

    Just go to xml-sitemaps.com and enter your url. Download the sitemap to your computer and then upload the sitemap to your main directory and to your google webmaster account. Also, you'll need to add a robots.txt file in your website's main directory and paste this line: Sitemap: url/sitemap.xml

    When you'll get finished with your website just redo step 1 and replace the old one with the new sitemap in your website's main directory and your google webmaster account.
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  • Profile picture of the author Nathan Joshua
    If your website is half complete i would suggest not putting it online until it is complete.

    If however, you plan to add more content to your website later you can always update your sitemaps to suit your new content.

    In fact Google loves it when you direct them to new content on your website and the big G will reward you for it!

    Hope this helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author msu
    If you're using WordPress there's a free plugin that generates a new XML sitemap as you update your site and then pings Google, Bing, etc..

    Here's the plugin link:
    Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress
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  • Profile picture of the author cbnet
    (i) Should one should have a sitemap in one's site.

    (ii) If I use this plugin link "Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress" for adding sitemap in my site. Do I have to take any action to update my sitemap whenever I update or modify my site. As I will be building my site, I will keep on adding/changing menus, pages, etc., will I have to keep on updating my site map or it is automatically done.

    Regards....cbnet
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  • Profile picture of the author webgain
    to create sitemap you can use online tool. sitemapgenerator is a website that allow you to create sitemap of a website free of charge.
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    • Profile picture of the author tsgeric
      I have recently begun using the plugin WP SEO by Yoast. It's really great and convenient, it combines the functionality that is usually handled my multiple plugins.

      One of the things it handles is your sitemap. actually, it makes 4 different files -- contents/comments for posts/pages I think. Just click one checkbox and that's it.
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