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XML Sitemap Guide : Create Upload Submit Ping

admin — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:02:36 +0000

What are XML Sitemaps
It’s a special sitemap document protocol to help search engines index websites. This protocol uses XML for describing its content. The full name is XML Sitemaps Protocol, but is commonly referred to as XML Sitemaps. The idea and format was conceived by Google, and was in the beginning called Google Sitemaps. If you are unsure what the difference it between XML Sitemaps, HTML sitemaps, RSS feeds etc. you can check this sitemaps article.

Create XML Sitemap
A quick search on Google shows various services and products for creating XML sitemaps. Read our create XML sitemaps tutorial for more information.

Upload XML Sitemap
After creating your XML sitemaps, you will need to upload it either using your favorite FTP program or use the built-in FTP functionality (if any) in your chosen sitemap generator tool. For more information, check our XML sitemap FTP upload tutorial.

Submit XML Sitemap
You can submit XML sitemaps to all primary search engines, or/and add a reference to your XML sitemap in robots.txt to allow for search engine XML sitemap auto discovery. For more information about both options, check this submit XML sitemap article.

Ping Search Engines with XML Sitemap
While search engines will check your XML sitemap for changes themselves, you can speed this process by pinging search engines when your XML sitemap has changed. You can see how in the XML sitemaps ping post.

FTP Upload XML Sitemaps using A1 Sitemap Generator

admin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:02:34 +0000

XML sitemaps FTP upload tool
Having created your XML sitemap, you will need to upload the sitemap files to your website. You can either use a standard FTP upload program, or the built-in sitemaps FTP upload tool in A1 Sitemap Generator. After configuration, upload of all generated sitemap files including Google XML sitemap protocol files becomes a 1-click operation.

Configure XML sitemaps upload
If you have never configured FTP options before, it is recommend you carefully check the general instructions at your webhost provider.

When you configure FTP upload directory path, you need to take into account that most webhosts have files accessible from the outside (i.e. those viewable through a webbrowser) placed in a subdirectory, usually called htdocs, public, html or similar. (If unsure, try find the directory where your index file for the given domain is located. Another solution is to ask your webhost administrator.)

Note: If you are FTP uploading an XML sitemap for an addon domain, your upload directory path will often be similar to e.g. /html/example.com/ or /public/example.com/.

Concerning host, remember that you should not include www in front of your domain name.

FTP upload and progress
Click Upload now to FTP upload the sitemap you last created.
Click Upload all to have all generated sitemap files uploaded.
You can view progress while upload happens.