Sitemap Submition

What is Sitemap

Sitemap is a file where you can tell all web pages of your site to Google and other search engines about the organization of your site's content.

Your Sitemap also includes valuable metadata related to the web page that is listed in the site map, such as when the page was last updated, how often the page has changed

Where to Store Sitemaps on Site?

A sitemap is HTML or xml file. This file is stored on the server inside the public_html folder.

Why Use Sitemaps?

Sitemap improves crawling of your site. Include all Web page URLs in it Use the Sitemap search to easily enter all the URLs of the website to cache.

Simple format of sitemap

Sitemap

<url>
  <loc>http://www.fastread.in/tutor</loc>
</url>

Another format:

Sitemap

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset
      xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
      xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9
            http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd">
<url>
  <loc>http://www.fastread.in/</loc>
  <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
  <priority>1.00</priority>
</url>
<url>
  <loc>http://www.fastread.in/index</loc>
  <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
  <priority>0.80</priority>
</url>
<url>
  <loc>http://www.fastread.in/explore</loc>
  <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
  <priority>0.80</priority>
</url>

The first line in the above Sitemap shows the version of sitemap and character encoding in the UTIF-8 format. There are so many online tools available to create a Sitemap. With these tools you can easily create a Sitemap for your website.

Sitemap Generator

Make visible sitemap

To make visible your sitemap to search engine you can add your sitemap url any where in robots.txt file.

Sitemap

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Sitemap: http://www.fastread.in/sitemap.xml