Almost every modern site has such a convenient page as "Sitemap". The map helps site visitors navigate the content and content of the site, even if the visitor is visiting it for the first time in his life, or if he still cannot understand the navigation and menus. The site map makes it easier to find information on the site for certain categories and provides quick access to them. How to create such a map on your web resource?
Instructions
Step 1
To create a sitemap, start by creating a new html page. When shaping the content of this page, decide whether you are creating a sitemap primarily for your visitors, or whether it will play the role of a kind of tag cloud for search engines.
Step 2
If you are primarily targeting the visitor, pay attention to navigation and navigation links. The site menu that a visitor sees when visiting its home page should have a prominent link to the map. Such a link should be available on every page of the site so that the visitor can open the sitemap at any time and find the information he needs.
Step 3
Think carefully about the structure and categories of the map so that people can easily navigate it. Mark the headings of sections and subsections.
Step 4
Also, to make it easier to find information on the map, you can specify a summary and description of each section. If the structure of the site changes or new sections appear, do not forget to reflect the changes in the sitemap by updating it.
Step 5
If, when creating a sitemap, you are targeting search engines, create a map in xml format. There are many xml generators for this, which are easy to find on the Internet. For example, you can use the service xml-sitemaps.com
Step 6
Enter your website address in the field provided, click the start button and wait - the service will process up to 500 pages for you free of charge. For a not very large site, it is quite suitable and will create a suitable map for you in xml.
Step 7
Save the resulting file in the root directory of the site on the server.
Step 8
To create a sitemap on Google, register your account there as a webmaster, go to the Sitemap section and provide a link to the xml-map page.
Step 9
On Yandex, the system is the same - specify the link to the page in the indexing settings."
Step 10
Keep the map up-to-date and update it in a timely manner depending on site changes.
