Postkiwi

I’ve been wondering how to train search engine robots to stop by more regularly, and how to get them to look at the appropriate pages. I’ve managed to sort a few things out at Google Sitemaps. The site for webmasters sitemaps program is a two-way communication between webmasters and Google. We can give Google information about our sites so they can index them more effectively. And Google shows us how they see our sites and tells us about any trouble they’ve had crawling them.

There are three steps involved.

1. Visit Google Sitemaps, signing in with a Google account.
2. Add the URLs of the web sites.

3. Create an HTML document with your special code as the name - verifying that you own the site. Place it in the root directory.

4. Verify the site with Google.

5. Create a sitemap file, using protocol recognised by Google and other search engines. The XML file includes information on the URLs to be searched, with details on how often they are likely to be changed.

6. Place the sitemap file in the root folder.

7. Verify the sitemap with Google.