Sitemaps

What Are Sitemaps?

Sitemap files are an easy way to inform search engines about pages on your site to be crawled. Technically, the site is an XML file that lists Url addresses for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (date of last modification, how often the content is changed, how important for other Url addresses on the website). This allows search engines to crawl the site more intelligently.

Structure of a Sitemaps

The basic structure of the site map consists of the following:

• XML declaration tag (optional): since the site map XML file, just that it should be this Declaration although it should not be.
• Mark (required): contains a set of tags, it must include "xmlns" attribute with a reference to the schema namespace map of the current location.
• Mark (required): url address corresponds to one site.
• Mark (required): contains the url address that refers to the origin.
• Tag (optional): date of the last modification of the url address. Must follow the format of the date: "YYYY-mm-DDTHH: MI: SS + TZ: ZI" for example, 2004-12-23T18:00:15 + 00:00.
• Tag (optional): number of times the content url this. This can be either "always," "every hour", "daily", "weekly", "monthly", "year", "never". "Always" should link to serve different content each time it is accessed. "Never" links never content changes such as archival documents.
• Tag (optional): gives an indication of how important this link.

Entity Escaping

Sitemap files must be encoded UTF-8. Url addresses must be in each sitemap file and url encoding fled to read from the Web server. Url encoding reference can be found at:

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp

Sitemaps for Large Websites

You must have a sitemap in the max size of 10 megabytes (MB) and maximum of URLs as 50. If a website has more than 50 k Url and/or site map file size exceeds 10 MB, then you can use the Sitemap index files that reference the location of the sitemap index file multiple each containing up to 50 k URLs and size 10 MB Max.

Sitemap files can be compressed in this format ".gz" which is often best practices. However, even with the compact size of the sitemap when uncompressed must not exceed 10 MB.

Structure of Sitemap Index Files

Sitemap index file structure consists of the following:

• Mark (required): contains information about the various sitemap files. This tag contains a set of flags that indicate individual sitemap files.
• Mark (required): contains information about an individual sitemap file.
• Mark (required): where you can find individual sitemap file.
• Mark (required): the last modified date of the file sitemap.

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