HTML and XML Sitemaps for SEO
Here is a free semi-technical training resource intended to guide you in building better websites, faster and smarter.
The following information:
• Explains the benefits of a good HTML sitemap.
• Why a good XML sitemap is an invaluable resource.
• Creating good HTML and XML sitemaps quickly.
• How and when to submit sitemaps to various search engines.
Don't forget to check out our web 2.0 website templates while you are learning more about sitemaps and building better websites.
Creating an HTML sitemap and a XML sitemap for your website could be the easiest thing you do to improve your exposure on the web. For those of you who pay close attention to the search engine optimization (SEO) of your site, this could be the one thing that gets you onto the first page of Google's results.
For those who don't devote too much time on the SEO of their site - this is a good place to start. By submitting a sitemap to various search engines, you are telling them that you exist and what pages your site has to offer the World Wide Web.
There are two types of sitemaps, HTML and XML. An HTML sitemap provides a useful directory of all the pages that are in your site. While XML sitemaps play an important role in helping the search engine “crawl” the various pages of your site. This Roadmap discusses the benefit of creating both an HTML sitemap and XML sitemap, and how you can go about creating them using a sitemap generator.
