Build An HTML Sitemap

admin | Internal Linking | Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Adding an HTML sitemap is criticial and crucial for proper search engine indexing and link weight. A search engine bot will follow links to find all of your pages, and pages that aren’t linked to will simply never get indexed.

An HTML sitemap will quickly and efficiently link to each page within your site. To ensure that the sitemap gets the proper link weight, make sure that you link to it in your main navigation. This will pass a fair amount of PageRank to the first page of the sitemap, and this will make it get indexed often.

To create an HTML sitemap, you will need to add a link to each page and post in your site. If you’re using a WordPress blog, a quick and efficient way to do this is by using the Dagon Design Sitemap Generator plugin. It creates a sitemap for you, and updates it whenever you add a new page, post, or category. Installing the plugin is very simple, you download it, upload it to your server, activiate it, and paste a snippet onto a new page that you can name sitemap.

Yahoo, Google, and MSN will all react positively to your new addition.

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