Though
you may feel like it is impossible to get listed high in Google's search engine
result page, believe it or not that isn't Google's intention. They simply want
to insure that their viewers get the most relevant results possible. In fact,
they've even created a program just for webmasters to help insure that your
pages get cached in their index as quickly as possible. They call the program Google Sitemaps. In
this tool, you'll also find a great new linking tool to help discover who is
linking to your website.
For
Google, these two pieces in the top SEO tips would be to read the tutorial
entitled How Do I Create a
Sitemap File and to create your own. To view the one on this page,
website simply right-click this SEO
Tips Sitemap.xml file and save it to your desktop. Open the file
with a text editor such as Notepad.
Effective
11/06, Google, Yahoo!, and MSN will be using one standard for sitemaps. Below
is a snippet of the standard code as listed at Sitemaps.org. Optional fields are lastmod,
changefreq, and priority.
<?xml
version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset
xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<url>
<loc>http://www.example.com/</loc>
<lastmod>2005-01-01</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.8</priority>
</url>
</urlset>
The
equivilant to the sitemap.xml file is the urllist.txt for Yahoo!.
Technically you can call the file whatever you want, but all it really contains
is a list of every page on your website. Here's a screenshot of my urllist.txt:
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