Many site owners and webmasters often underestimate the importance of having a sitemap, both an online version for users and an XML version for Google. Sitemaps are one of the most effective ways to help Google to understand about your site, and although it does not necessarily lead to a quicker indexing, it really is proven to make sure your site is indexed in a much more efficient way.
As part of our monthly packages you will always receive a generated XML and HTML sitemap from us, as this is included as part of your hours, but if you would prefer to just use Clear Web Services to generate a site map for you, either as a one off or a regular occurrence, we can do this for just £30, which will include a Sitemap in XML format and HTML format as well.
We can generate sitemaps for you, whether you have an existing site or would like one to accompany your new site, we can take care of this. We can generate both HTML and XML versions of the sitemap, and also help you to submit this to Google and in particular the Webmaster Tools, to make sure your site is doing everything it can to help the search engines index it comprehensively.
We use a state of the art program to generate the sitemaps, and can handle many thousands of pages.
Please contact us on 01594 835857 or email info@clearwebservices.com to get prices for this service, as it depends on the size of your website, including how many pages and the depth of the sitemap.
What Is A Sitemap?
To give a very basic example, a sitemap is simply a list of pages on your website.
Creating and submitting a sitemap helps make sure that Google and other major search engines knows about all of the pages on your website, including URLs that may not be discoverable by the search engines normal crawling process.
Click here to view Clear Web Services sitemap to help you better understand.
Why Do I Need Sitemap?
A quote from Google’s own webmaster advice reads :
Sitemaps provide additional information about your site to Google, complementing our normal methods of crawling the web. We expect they will help us crawl more of your site and in a more timely fashion, but we can’t guarantee that URLs from your Sitemap will be added to the Google index. Sites are never penalized for submitting Sitemaps.
You can read the full article by clicking here.
Anything that gives you some kind of help to make sure the major search engines index your site is well worth doing, with Google in particular looking to see a sitemap on the website to make sure the site is conforming to accessibility rules.
If you think of SEO as a big pie made up of hundreds, if not thousands of slices, the more slices you manage to get, the more of the pie you will have, which in SEO terms basically means the more things you do, little or large, will try to make sure you pick up a higher percentage of search engine traffic.
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