One of the hottest tips for promoting your new website  is  Google Sitemaps. This is a small XML file that resides on your website and provides information to Googlebot when it accesses it. Is this file useful? What is it for? How do I create one? How do I get found by Google? Well, let me tell you. 

First, the general consensus  is that the jury is still out on whether Google Sitemaps is useful. Google's official position is that the entire program is in beta, so there are no promises or guarantees. Once you understand the purpose of this file, you can probably guess its usefulness.

A Google sitemap is basically an XML file that contains information about all the web pages on your website. Create this file, send it to Google, and Google will read it. No one knows what Google will do from there. You can specify certain parameters within the file, such as: B. The location (URL) of the web page, when it was last modified, how often the page is updated, and the "priority" of each page. 

 Google may assign these sitemap submission results to a secondary index, where it compares the results to the live index. This allows you to learn how people use (and abuse) the program. I think the  majority of participants in this program are website designers and marketers looking to give their clients some edge over Google's competition. However, it is not without value. 

By telling Google where all your web pages are located, you may be able to improve the saturation of your web pages  in the index. This  indirectly improves your rankings by adding previously unlinked and highly linked pages to the index. But as  mentioned before, it's difficult to know whether Google is  using sitemap information in its live index. 

You've decided  to create and submit  your own sitemap, so here's how:

  1. First, you need to create an XML file. Don't bother doing it yourself. https://tools.techrobot.in/xml-sitemap-generator has a great free online utility. 
  2. Next, you need to submit your sitemap to Google. Visit www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login and sign in with your Google Account. Don't have one? Don't worry. It's also free. Once you're logged in, you can add as many sitemaps as you want. 
  3. Remember: Every time you update your website by adding, deleting, or moving webpages, repeat this process. However, you don't need to resubmit your sitemap to Google. 


Google  also promotes a mobile sitemap program.  I think this point could become even more important. I believe  Google is indexing mobile-friendly sites (Mobile Web Search Beta) and  using these new mobile sitemaps to encourage the public to create their first directories. Masu. The mobile web is still in its infancy at the moment, so I wouldn't be surprised if creating a  mobile sitemap could give your mobile website a huge head start. But then again. There are no guarantees here. This is just my opinion.