Sitemap Importance

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Ultimate Goal to Implement XML Site-map For
website
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What is Site map??

• gt Collection of all the Pages and Help to index
  to Major search Engine.
• gt Redirects the Search engine to all path of the
  website as we desired arrangement in site map.
• Eg

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Why do you need a Site map
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Important Need of Sitemap
Site map Informsgt important pages on
website togt Search Engines. So that ,Your
important web pages increases its visibility in
Google, Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex etc. gt
Ensures indexing of the web pages.
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XML Site maps are especially helpful when

• You have a brand new website
• Your web-site has dynamic content generated by
  CMS (Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal, Dot Net Nuke,
  etc)
• Your have got a lot of pages
• You don't have desired Google Page Rank
• Your website has complex navigation
• Some of your web pages are either not accessible
  from the main page and its children, or are
  buried too deep in the page hierarchy.

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Another Important Elements

• If you have broken links on your website, XML
  Sitemap will detect those and inform you of all
  the dead links and the pages these links are on!

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Parameters Be Considered When moving to Site map
Implementation

• To get xml sitemap is easy now with lot of online
  xml site map generator.
• But need to be considered with selections for 3
  optional parameters -
• Page changing frequency,
• Last modified date
• Page priority.

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Parameter Details

• Page changing frequency indicates
• gt How frequently the content at a particular URL
  is likely to change.
• Last modified date indicates
• gt The time of the URL was last modified.
• gt This information allows search engines'
  crawlers to avoid re crawling documents that
  havent changed.

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Parameter Details

• Page priority indicates
• The priority of a particular page relative to
  other pages on the same website.
• Google specified the value for this tag is a
  number between 0.0 and 1.0 where
• 0.0 identifies the lowest priority page(s) on
  your website
• 1.0 - the highest priority page(s) on your
  website.
• The default priority of a page is 0.5.