Increase Web Site Traffic

Many websites maintains a sitemap web page to help visitors find their way around the site. It is a tool that aids the search engines bots find their way around as well.

Search engines, like Google and Yahoo, decided to take it one step further. In addition to placing sitemaps within your website, you may submit your website sitemap in XML format directly to the search engine portal.

Besides the link to all the pages within your website, the XML format sitemap contains the last modified date of every page. This helps the search engine bots scan your website efficiently, track changes and update the search engine databases accordingly.

It is assumed that if you help the search engine bot then it will help you.

Step 1 – Create XML Sitemap
XML (eXtended Markup Language) is a file similar in its structure to HTML pages. XML files are geared for storing data. Here is the XML sitemap used for this website:

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<urlset xmlns=”http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9″>
<url>
<loc>http://www.increase-web-site-traffic.info/</loc>
<lastmod>2007-10-30</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.increase-web-site-traffic.info/seo/</loc>
<lastmod>2007-10-03</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.increase-web-site-traffic.info/seo/keywords/</loc>
<lastmod>2007-09-17</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.increase-web-site-traffic.info/seo/inbound-links/</loc>
<lastmod>2007-09-17</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.increase-web-site-traffic.info/seo/inbound-links/link-exchange/</loc>
<lastmod>2007-09-17</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.increase-web-site-traffic.info/seo/quality-of-content/</loc>
<lastmod>2007-09-17</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.increase-web-site-traffic.info/seo/quality-of-content/freshness/</loc>
<lastmod>2007-09-17</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.increase-web-site-traffic.info/seo/quality-of-content/5-seconds-versus-5-minutes/</loc>
<lastmod>2007-09-22</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.increase-web-site-traffic.info/seo/storage-facility/</loc>
<lastmod>2007-10-03</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.increase-web-site-traffic.info/seo/spamming/</loc>
<lastmod>2007-09-17</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.increase-web-site-traffic.info/seo/seo-tools/</loc>
<lastmod>2008-01-01</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.increase-web-site-traffic.info/viral-marketing/</loc>
<lastmod>2007-09-22</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.increase-web-site-traffic.info/viral-marketing/mailing-lists/</loc>
<lastmod>2007-09-29</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.increase-web-site-traffic.info/viral-marketing/video-marketing/</loc>
<lastmod>2007-09-29</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.increase-web-site-traffic.info/smo/</loc>
<lastmod>2007-10-28</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.increase-web-site-traffic.info/internet-campaigns/</loc>
<lastmod>2007-10-07</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.increase-web-site-traffic.info/internet-campaigns/sem/</loc>
<lastmod>2008-01-01</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.increase-web-site-traffic.info/web-design/</loc>
<lastmod>2007-10-08</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.increase-web-site-traffic.info/glossary/</loc>
<lastmod>2007-09-29</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.increase-web-site-traffic.info/links/</loc>
<lastmod>2007-10-30</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.increase-web-site-traffic.info/articles/</loc>
<lastmod>2008-01-18</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.increase-web-site-traffic.info/site-map/</loc>
<lastmod>2008-01-18</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.increase-web-site-traffic.info/youtube.html</loc>
<lastmod>2007-10-11</lastmod>
</url>
</urlset>

Download this XML sitemap here.

You are invited to take this example, adjust it to your website and off you go to Step 2.

Step 2 – Submit XML Sitemap
Each search engine has its own interface to upload the XML sitemap. Google enables uploading XML sitemaps through Google Webmaster Tools.