Sitemaps enable search engines to index all of the pages on your site in a concise and intelligent manner. Google and some of the other major search engines recommend that you offer a sitemap in order to speed up the indexing process and ensure that important pages on your website are not missed by the search engine robots. A sitemap is incredibly helpful in getting more of your pages indexed, as spiders alone will only go 2-to-3 link levels deep on any given site.
While this may seem like a relatively simple step to optimizing your site, it becomes more confounding when you realize that each search engine requires a sitemap in a format they specify. XML, ROR, HTML, RSS; it can all be a little overwhelming. Here’s where our offering is different from the competition:
Our software will generate 4 individual sitemaps: One specifically tailored for Google, one specifically for Yahoo, one general purpose map in an open-source format, as well as an HTML sitemap that can be used by your visitors or by any directories that you may have submitted to. The monthly charge covers the steps necessary to rebuild your sitemap month to month, and to update it in the Google database. By feeding your sitemap to Google you can ensure that people will be able to find exactly what you want them to find. We can even set the priority of your site’s pages to ensure that the most important content is spidered first.
We will also throw in a free robots file. While a sitemap tells the search engine where to look for content, a robots file tells the search engines what not to index. Don’t want your pictures showing up in Google Images? We can make that happen. Don’t want your customer login area to appear in search engine results? We’ve got that covered. The robots file working in tandem with our sitemaps offering is the easiest, most efficient way to free up bandwidth, get indexed accurately and work towards obtaining site links on Google.
Sitemaps enable search engines to index all of the pages on your site in a concise and intelligent manner. Google and some of the other major search engines recommend that you offer a sitemap in order to speed up the indexing process and ensure that important pages on your website are not missed by the search engine robots. A sitemap is incredibly helpful in getting more of your pages indexed, as spiders alone will only go 2-to-3 link levels deep on any given site.
