Submit Sitemaps

Easily and instantly submit your sitemap(s) to Google and Bing. This tool is recommended for new sites and after redesigning websites.

What are sitemaps for?

Sitemaps are designed to inform search engines about your site content. They help search engine spiders navigate your website and find relevant information from your web pages, thus improving their ranking in search results. Sitemaps are useful for organizing data-heavy websites like blogs and news sites. If you have a blog, then you can generate a sitemap automatically using a free online service. You can use Google’s Webmaster Tools to view your sitemaps and submit them to Google directly.

Where do I submit sitemaps?

Sitemap submission guidelines can vary from site to site. But, generally speaking, here are some basic guidelines that should help you get started:

  • Only include links to pages on your website – don’t mix internal and external links
  • Use plain text formatting (no html code)
  • Give sitemaps a name ending in.xml or.gzip
  • Don’t use duplicate sitemaps or have multiple versions of sitemaps

Do sitemaps help SEO?

  • Yes, they do: Sitemaps are used to track changes on your website over time. They are like “check-ins” that allow search engines to know what has changed. This can improve your rankings in the SERPs (search engine results pages). A sitemap is not only useful for SEO purposes but can also serve as an effective communication tool between your team members that may need to communicate changes to your site. You can use tools from Webmaster Tools to create sitemaps.
  • No, they don’t really help SEO: It’s true, sitemaps don’t really offer any tangible benefits to Search Engine Optimization. However, they do provide a great visual representation of how your site looks. Your users, however, do benefit from them. When visitors come across links to other sites via your site map, they get a better idea about the structure of your business.

How many sitemaps can I submit to Google?

Sitemap submissions are a good way to increase your website traffic and optimize your site structure. But beware that too many sitemaps can negatively impact SEO!

Then we will go through how to set up our first sitemap file. The first thing you need to know about sitemaps is that they are XML files. You can use any text editor (like Notepad++) to create them.

Here is an example of a sitemap configuration:

  • You can have 1 or many sitemap files. Each sitemap will list the pages from each page on your website. To generate the sitemap file, you can use the following command line:
  • So here is where it get interesting. There are some different types of sitemaps:
  • There are two main types of sitemaps, the first type is called dynamic sitemaps. This sitemap generates a list of URLs based on the content of the site.
  • When you visit a URL in this sitemap, it will update its contents according to the current state of the site.
  • If you add, edit or remove something using WordPress admin panel, it will automatically reflect on the sitemap.

Are sitemaps still important?

Sitemaps are not needed anymore. If your website has been working fine for years without them, then they can be removed from your site. Google does not need them any longer. They were created as a way to help search engines like Google index pages faster. But, if you’ve never used sitemaps before, here’s your chance to learn how!

A sitemap is basically a list of URLs that point back to other web pages on your site. You can create a sitemap for any page on your site, including the homepage. A good rule of thumb is to make sure each URL links back to at least 10% of the content on the page. To do this, simply add internal linking into your pages wherever appropriate (for example, if you have product descriptions in several places throughout the site).

You can manually update your existing sitemap or create a brand-new one using our automated sitemap software. Either way, you’ll find yourself able to see exactly what pages are indexed by Google and Yahoo!. This helps you determine whether all your pages are covered, whether you’re missing anything, and where you could improve the optimization of your SEO strategy.