Title: How does a sitemap work?
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How does a sitemap work?
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How does a sitemap work?
- A video sitemap entry can include running video
time, category. - An image sitemap entry can specify the image
subject matter, license, type - You cant do search engine optimization of a
website with out making sitemap. I suggest you to
do SEO by npsoftech Best SEO Company in
Dehradun to get your website on google 1st page
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How does a sitemap work?
- A Sitemap is a file you need to create for web
crawlers as Googlebot that gives them a list of
website pages to crawl on your website. -
- Some Most web crawlers can discover and explore
all the files of the website. A sitemap file
helps to the crawler and can also provide the
metadata such as how often the information on the
page gets changed and suggesting how often it
should be crawled by the crawler, all the
details about content which is difficult for
search engines to parse, like image or video file
descriptions. You can add, view or test the
sitemaps by using the Sitemaps report in Search
Console.
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Build and submit a sitemap
- You can decide which page should be crawled by
google of your website and select the canonical
version of each page. - You can Decide which sitemap format want to use.
You can create your sitemap manually for your
website or can generate a sitemap from the
different- different tools. - You can Test your sitemap using the Search
Console which is a Sitemaps testing tool. - Get Make your sitemap available to Google search
engine by adding it to your robort.txt file or
directly submitting it to the google search
console. Have you got website? You can get from
npsoftech pvt. Ltd which is one of the best web
development company in dehradun.
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Way to make sitemap available to Google (submit
your sitemap to google)
Submit your websites sitemap to the google
search console Sitemap tool
Insert the line your robots.txt file anywhere,
specifying the path to your sitemap. Sitemap
http//example.com/sitemap_location.xml
Use the ping functionality crawl your sitemap
file. Send an HTTP GET request like
this. http//www.google.com/ping?sitemapltcomplete
_url_of_sitemapgt
For an example http//www.google.com/ping?sitema
phttps//example.com/sitemap.xml
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Test your sitemap
- You can test your sitemap file syntax before you
submit it - To Test a sitemap file
- Click add/test sitemap file in the report
landing page. - Ener the URL of the sitemap file in the dialog
and click test. - Now after completing the sitemap test. Open the
test results and check the error. - Fix your error
- Now click on Submit Sitemap.
- Doing this all having no value if you are not
doing Search engine optimization - of your website . Beacuse SEO help your
website to get traffic , google first page - ranking . It is maintaining or managing your
website according to criterias set by - google search engine. I refer you to do
search engine optimization of your website - with Best SEO company in dehradun
7Submit your sitemap - first time
- At first test your sitemap file.
- Now Click on the Add/test sitemap button.
- Enter the URL path in the text box. URL should be
relative to the website root - defined.
- Click on the submit button.
- Now see your new sitemap in the sitemaps list
option (refresh the browser) - Now click on the new sitemap file in the sitemap
list for opening the sitemaps - details page and on check any errors or bugs
about the sitemap or the URLs it - contains. It might take time before Google can
process your sitemap.
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Thank you