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"Site tree" redirects here. For site trees in forestry, see Site tree (forestry). A site map (or sitemap) is a representation of the architecture of a web site. [1] It can be either a document in any form used as a planning tool for web design, or a web page that lists the pages on a web site, typically organized in hierarchical fashion. This helps visitors and search engine bots find pages on the site. Logo of Wikipedia The English Wikipedia is the English language edition of the Wikipedia encyclopedia. ...
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While some developers argue that site index is a more appropriately used term to relay page function, web visitors are used to seeing each term and generally associate both as one and the same. However, a site index is often used to mean an A-Z index that provides access to particular content, while a site map provides a general top-down view of the overall site contents.
Benefits of sitemaps
Site maps can improve search engine optimization of a site by making sure that all the pages can be found. This is especially important if a site uses Adobe Flash or JavaScript menus that do not include HTML links. A typical search results page Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via natural (organic or algorithmic) search results for targeted keywords. ...
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Most search engines will only follow a finite number of links from a page, so if a site is very large, the site map may be required so that search engines and visitors can access all content on the site.
XML sitemaps Google introduced Google Sitemaps so web developers can publish lists of links from across their sites. The basic premise is that some sites have a large number of dynamic pages that are only available through the use of forms and user entries. The sitemap files can then be used to indicate to a web crawler how such pages can be found.
Google, MSN, Yahoo and Ask now jointly support the Sitemaps protocol. This article is about the corporation. ...
Google Sitemaps is a service offered by Google to help its crawlers better index web sites. ...
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Since MSN, Yahoo, Ask, and Google use the same protocol, having a sitemap lets the four biggest search engines have the updated page information. Sitemaps do not guarantee all links will be crawled, and being crawled does not guarantee indexing. However, a sitemap is still the best insurance for getting a search engine to learn about your entire site. [2]
XML sitemaps have replaced the older method of "submitting to search engines" by filing out a form on the search engines submission page. Now web developers submit a sitemap directly, or wait for search engines to find it.
See also - Sitemaps, a standard for URL inclusion
- Biositemap, a protocol for broadcasting and disseminating information about computational biology resources (data, software tools and web-services).
The Sitemaps Protocol allows a webmaster to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for crawling. ...
References - ^ Peter Morville, Information Architecture on the World Wide Web, Feb 1998, pp:58
- ^ Joint announcement from Google, Yahoo, MSN supporting Sitemaps
External links - Common Official Website - Jointly maintained website by Google, Yahoo, MSN for an XML sitemap format.
- Tips about Sitemaps Build a sitemap at a mouse click with an open-source sitemap generator (XML, text or HTML).
- JSiteMap A Java open source site map generator.
- Online XML Sitemap Generator by dtools
- / Sitemap generators at the Open Directory Project
The Open Directory Project (ODP), also known as dmoz (from , its original domain name), is a multilingual open content directory of World Wide Web links owned by Netscape that is constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors. ...
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