Editor: Simple Map is a free open source site map generator and checker...
You can generate a site map with just a command and edit the generated document from within the built-in viewer (or any text or XML editor), and then upload it directly at the root of your site
How to Create the map of a website?
With the graphical interface, you have just to type the name of the home page and click on the "Generate" button!
Why to make a sitemap?
A sitemap, either in the XML or HTML format, helps search engines to index all pages of a website.
Additionally, Google, when an XML sitemap is registered, produces an analysis of problems encountered and a report of errors, and statistics.
Google returns which requests to search engines will lead to your pages and the pages that have not been indexed.
XML, text or HTML, which format to choose?
The XML format is now recognized by main search engines. It is intended to give various information to Googlebot and other crawlers. This XML document is generated by Simple Map according to the standard specification.
- The priority tag indicates which pages are the most important ones.
- The lastmod tag, gives the date of the last modification. Used along with the Frequency attribute.
- The changefreq tag, is the frequency of scanning by the robot, from always, for a very big website with pages changing continuously, to yearly or never, for static pages. As for W3C specifications of formats with a version number.
The text format gives only the list of URL of pages to be indexed. It is accepted by Google.
The HTML format is for visitors of your website. It may display links, titles, descriptions or other infos. It is scanned by search engines and allows to give URL of pages that are not indexed, specially in the case of multi-level sub-directories, since deeper levels are not always scanned
Tips, important advices about XML, text or HTML sitemaps.
