Manually creating a Sitemap

As i said my last post ( Site links issue? ) so here is basic think to how we can creating sitemap manually but if you need to create via software so you can use xml-sitemaps.org this site is really good for creating xml sitemaps and its very quickly creating.

Via xml-sitemaps.org 4 simple steps to get it, more information go that site and read its very easy to creating.

ok than i just read how to creating sitemaps manually follow this artcile and help tips by google webmaster tools

To create a Sitemap based on the Sitemap protocol:

  1. Create a text file and save it with a .xml extension.

  1. Add the following to the top of the file:

     <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
      <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
  2. Add the following to the bottom of the file:

      </urlset>
  3. Create an entry for each URL. The <loc> tag is required; the others are optional.

    <url>
        <loc>http://www.example.com/</loc>
        <lastmod>2005-01-01</lastmod>
        <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.8</priority>
    </url> 
  4. Upload your Sitemap to your site. Then submit it to Google using Webmaster Tools.

Adding additional information to a Sitemap

Each URL in a Sitemap can be described using the tags below. Depending on the method you used to create your Sitemap, some tags may be already present in your Sitemap.

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<url>
<loc>http://www.example.com/</loc>
 <lastmod>2005-01-01</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.8</priority>
</url>  
  </urlset>

Prioritize the pages on your site

The optional priority tag describes the relative priority of all pages on your site. This priority can range from 1.0 (extremely important) to 0.1 (not important at all).

You can modify your Sitemap to indicate the relative priority of pages on your site. For example, your home page might be extremely important (1.0), while a product category page is very important (.8), and a product detail page less so (0.6). You might choose to set the importance of other pages, such as disclaimers and legal information, lower still.

Setting the priority of pages will never affect your site’s ranking in Google search results. Search engines use this information when selecting between URLs on the same site, so you can use this tag to increase the likelihood that your more important pages are present in a search index. The priority value has no effect on your pages compared to pages on other sites. Because this value is relative to other pages on your site, and not to other pages on the web in general, assigning a high priority to all of the URLs on your site will not help your site’s search ranking.

Specify how often pages change:
The optional changefreq
indicates how frequently the page is likely to change. Valid values are:

  • always. Use this value for pages that change every time they are accessed.

  • hourly

  • daily

  • weekly

  • monthly

  • yearly

  • never. Use this value for archived URLs.

The value of this tag is considered a hint and not a command. Even though search engine crawlers consider this information when making decisions, they may crawl pages marked “hourly” less frequently than that, and they may crawl pages marked “yearly” more frequently than that. It is also likely that crawlers will periodically crawl pages marked “never” so that they can handle unexpected changes to those pages.

Specify when a page was last changed


Use the optional lastmod
tag to indicate when a page was last modifed. Use the date format YYYY-MM-DDThh:mmTZD, where the date and time value are optional.

Thanks by Google help and Google Webmaster Tools guide

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One thought on “Manually creating a Sitemap

  1. Indeed a very well written article, very informative thanks for posting it on the net..I could use this as reference and many others can also use it. Thanks again..

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