A newbie webmaster in one of the webmasters discussion forum yesterday asked me “What is a Sitemap?”. Well, a Sitemap is simply like a chart that you will present in front of the search engine spiders when they visit your site. These chart acts like a map to your website so that the Search Engine spiders can easily navigate through each of your web-pages and index them properly.
When we create this sitemap specifically for Google, then we call it a Google Sitemap. Google support sitemaps in the xml format. So, you will need to create a xml sitemap in order to make it function properly. There are lot of Google sitemap generators available in the internet today. You can either create an xml sitemap online thought any FREE online sitemap creation service or you can use a desktop sitemap generator application.
Once your sitemap is created, you need to upload it to your website. Then you will need to visit the Google webmasters section and submit your sitemap information there. You will be guided through the process by a wizard and it should not take much time. That’s all. Now you can wait for Google spiders to visit your site and index each and every pages of your website!