Site map

Types of Sitemaps - Sitemap of links from the English Wikipedia's Main Page - Sitemap of Google in 2006 - User-visible sitemaps for hierarchical site navigation - Alphabetically organized sitemaps (site indexes) - XML Sitemap for search engines and crawlers XML Sitemaps - Sitemaps protocol introduced by Google - Sitemaps allow web crawlers to find dynamic pages - Bing, Google, Yahoo, and Ask support the Sitemaps protocol - Sitemaps help search engines have updated page information - Sitemaps do not guarantee all links will be crawled or indexed Sample XML Sitemap - Example of a validated XML sitemap for a three-page website - Sitemaps are useful for non-HTML languages - Includes URLs, last modification date, change frequency, and priority Related Concepts - Biositemap protocol for computational biology resources - Contact page - Home page - Index (search engine) - Link page - Search engine optimization - Web indexing References and External Links - Sitemap Usability by Jakob Nielsen - Article on sitemaps by Tessa Nadik - Joint announcement from Google, Yahoo, and Bing supporting Sitemaps - Google Webmaster Tools for uploading sitemaps - Oreilly article on standardization against Google Sitemap Protocol - Official website for XML sitemap format - Sitemap generators at Curlie - Internet portal - Wikipedia page on site map