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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 or site indexes
– XML Sitemap for search engines and crawlers

XML sitemaps
– Sitemaps protocol introduced by Google for publishing lists of links
– Bing, Google, Yahoo, and Ask support the Sitemaps protocol
– Sitemaps provide updated page information to search engines
– Sitemaps do not guarantee crawling or indexing of all links
– Google Webmaster Tools allows sitemap upload or use of robots.txt

Sample
– Example of a validated XML sitemap for a three-page website
– Sitemaps are useful for non-HTML languages
– XML format with URLs, last modification date, change frequency, and priority

Related concepts
– Biositemap protocol for computational biology resources
– Contact page
– Home page
– Index in search engines
– Link page
– Search engine optimization
– Web indexing

References and external links
– Sitemap Usability – Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox
– What Is A Sitemap? Do I Need One? – Search Engine Journal
– Standardization of Google Sitemap Protocol – Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft
– Joint announcement supporting Sitemaps – Google, Yahoo, Bing
– Submitting Sitemaps – Google Inc.
– Common Official Website – XML sitemap format maintained by Google, Yahoo, MSN
– Sitemap generators at Curlie
– Portal: Internet

Site map (Wikipedia)

A sitemap is a list of pages of a web site within a domain.

There are three primary kinds of sitemap:

  • Sitemaps used during the planning of a website by its designers
  • Human-visible listings, typically hierarchical, of the pages on a site
  • Structured listings intended for web crawlers such as search engines
Alternative Meanings:
  • 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
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