Google Sitemap

Google Sitemap is an easy way for you to help improve your coverage in the Google Search Engine. You can use this tool to build and publish your Sitemap using the Google Sitemap Protocol. The tool generates your Sitemap in XML format.

Note: You will need a Google account and password in order to publish the Sitemap. Click here for more information.

The Sitemaps protocol allows a webmaster to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for crawling. A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a site. It allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in relation to other URLs in the site. This allows search engines to crawl the site more intelligently. Sitemaps are particularly beneficial on websites where:

• some areas of the website are not available through the browsable interface, or

• webmasters use rich Ajax or Flash content that is not normally processed by search engines.

The webmaster can generate a Sitemap containing all accessible URLs on the site and submit it to search engines. Having a Google Sitemap would let Google search engine have the updated pages information. Sitemaps supplement and do not replace the existing crawl-based mechanisms that search engines already use to discover URLs. By submitting Sitemaps to a search engine, a webmaster is only helping that engine's crawlers to do a better job of crawling their site(s). Using this protocol does not guarantee that web pages will be included in search indexes, nor does it influence the way that pages are ranked in search results.

Generate Google Sitemap

In this section you can build your Google sitemap. Also, under this section you will be able to see the sitemap domain and information on your last generated Google sitemaps.

1. If you want to use a www prefix, check off the “use www prefix” box.

2. Click “Generate sitemap” to build your initial sitemap using the Google Sitemap protocol.

Note: You can generate one Google Sitemap per day.

Submit Google sitemap

In this section you can publish your sitemap and you will also be displayed with the sitemap location and status information.

1. Click “Submit Sitemap” to publish your sitemap.

Note: You can submit one Google Sitemap per hour.