Introduction
Sitemap can't really improve SEO for the website. However, it can make sure that search engine includes every pages of the website.
Steps
1. Generate sitemap for the website
The sitemap.xml has to include all pages. We can use sitemap generator to generate sitemap if the website is too large. https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
Then the site generator will scan the website and shows all pages
The following example shows the format of the sitemap
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset
xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9
http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd">
<url>
<loc>https://jenhsuan.github.io/ALayman/profile.html</loc>
<lastmod>2020-05-09T00:44:26+00:00</lastmod>
<priority>1.00</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>https://jenhsuan.github.io/ALayman/projects.html</loc>
<lastmod>2020-05-09T00:44:26+00:00</lastmod>
<priority>0.80</priority>
</url>
...
</urlset>
- Put the sitemap.xml in the root folder. Make sure that others can visit sitemap under the domain.
2. Submit the Sitemap to Google Search Console
- Login to Google search console (https://search.google.com/) and select Sitemap put the url of the sitemap and submit.
That's it!
Articles
There are some of my articles. Feel free to check if you like!
- My blog-posts for software developing: https://medium.com/a-layman
- My web resume: https://jenhsuan.github.io/ALayman/cover.html
- Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/imalayman
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