Practically each modern website has such convenient page as "Site map". The card helps visitors of the website to orient with content and filling of the website even if the visitor is on it for the first time in life or if he cannot understand navigation and the menu yet. The site map allows to facilitate information search on the website in any given categories and provides quick access to them. How to create such card on your web resource?
Instruction
1. To create a site map, begin with creation of a new HTML page. Forming filling of this page, be defined whether you create a site map mainly for the visitors, or it will play a role of a peculiar tag cloud for search engines.
2. If you are guided first of all by the visitor, pay attention to navigation and navigation links. In the menu of the website which the visitor sees, having visited its homepage, there has to be a noticeable link to the card. Such reference should be had on each page of the website that the visitor could open at any time a site map and find the necessary information.
3. Carefully think over structure and categories of the card that it was simple to people to be guided in it. Note headings of sections and subsections.
4. Also for simplification of information search in the card you can specify the summary and the description of each section. If on the website the structure changes or new sections appear – do not forget to reflect changes in a site map, having updated it.
5. If, creating a site map, you are guided by search engines, create the card in the XML format. For this purpose there is a set of XML generators which are easy for finding in the Internet. For example, you can use xml-sitemaps.com service
6. Enter the address of the website in the offered field, press a start button and wait – service will free of charge process for you up to 500 pages. It quite will be suitable for not the really big website and will create for you the suitable card in xml.
7. Save the received file in the root directory of the website on the server.
8. To create a site map in Google, register the account as webmasters there, come into the section Sitemap and specify the link to the XML card page.
9. On Yandex a system same – specify the link to the page in indexing settings".
10. Maintain relevance of the card and in due time update it depending on changes of the website.