Posts Tagged ‘sitemap’

Submit a sitemap for WordPress Blog to Google Webmasters Tools

October 12th, 2009

Someone with little tips did also before, but now, with new sitemaps ( www.yourname.wordpress.com/sitemap.xml all, as newbies a me, can use Gogle Webmasters Tool, a instrument very useful for all Bloggers. To submit our blog to that strument is easy
1)
to have  a Google’s account
2)
submit our Url to Google search engines; after that Google will demand to us if we want submit our blog to Webmsters Tool: we’ll said: Yes!;
3)
to verify our site, choose HTML file: we copy the name of file; we go to ‘write a new page; the title of new page will be the same name of file; : pubblish it. Control with Webmast Tools if it’s ok. Well now:
4) go to “sitemap” here  choose submit sitemap: http://yourname.wordpress.com/sitemap.xml DONE! Now, after some Hours, after Google will read all our datas we can use the Google Webmasters Tools.… And the page pubblish with that bad title? I don’t know, but don’t delete it. I tip to you to make it private, but not more, for the moment….
PS: UPGRADE: Ok Now We said We don’t delete the page We created, because Google’s craws if doens’t find it said to us code 404 ( error )
A time, when a Blogger made that kind of post, others Bloggers sends a trakback. I’ll be very happy if someone will do it for Me. GoodBye From Italy to everyone.

Sitemaps

October 7th, 2009

The Sitemaps protocol allows a webmaster to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for crawling. A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a site. It allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in relation to other URLs in the site. This allows search engines to crawl the site more intelligently. Sitemaps are a URL inclusion protocol and complement robots.txt, a URL exclusion protocol.

Sitemaps are particularly beneficial on websites where:

  • some areas of the website are not available through the browsable interface, or
  • webmasters use rich Ajax or Flash content that is not normally processed by search engines.

The webmaster can generate a Sitemap containing all accessible URLs on the site and submit it to search engines. Since Google, MSN, Yahoo, and Ask use the same protocol now, having a Sitemap would let the biggest search engines have the updated pages information.

Sitemaps supplement and do not replace the existing crawl-based mechanisms that search engines already use to discover URLs. By submitting Sitemaps to a search engine, a webmaster is only helping that engine’s crawlers to do a better job of crawling their site(s). Using this protocol does not guarantee that web pages will be included in search indexes, nor does it influence the way that pages are ranked in search results