Webmasters Take Note - Why Two Sitemaps Are Better Than One!
Released on = January 28, 2006, 2:24 pm
Press Release Author = LeadGenerationClub
Industry = Small Business
Press Release Summary = LeadGenerationclub Tells Why Two Sitemaps Are A Must For All Webmasters In Today\'s Post Google Sitemap\'s Submission Tool
Press Release Body = Chicago, Illinois
Leadgenerationclub.com today is offering to show all Webmasters who generate Sitemaps how to do two Sitemaps for their websites in view of Google\'s New Sitemaps submission tool.
Google Sitemaps is a service that allows Webmasters to submit an XML map of their site containing information such as change frequency, priority, date created and more. It also hopefully will get your site indexed sooner in Google\'s search engine. Google suggests their own program to create the site map, but you must have Python in order for it to run since they only accept .xml format.
Now all Webmasters have a choice of an easier way to create these Sitemaps, one for Google and one for Yahoo and all other search engine bots using a new software program called SpiderGenerator. SpiderGenerator emulates search bots by following all the links on your site and creating this new site map already formatted in .xml just as Google wants. That\'s fine for Google. But what about all the other online search engines? They are just too big a slice of the pie to totally ignore.
Yahoo, Altavista, MSN, AOL ...in fact all major and smaller msearch engines still have spiderbots that spider your site and are still worthwhile search engines to get listed in. So it\'s now important that Webmasters understand that they must have \"two\" Sitemaps. One for Google in .xml format and one in .html format for all the others. There is however, a little bit of a catch. If you have a .xml format for Google and googlebot can also read your .html format sitemap, it will look at it as two identical pages. Not a very good idea. So this is what needs to happen.
You must have two Sitemaps, one slightly different than the other.
It need not be an elaborate difference; but difference it should have. So what to do?
Use SpiderGenerator to create your .xml sitemap and use the additional .txt sitemap it creates to turn it into an .html format sitemap using your favorite .html editor.
How many additional links should your second sitemap have? You only really need one.
Leadgenerationclub.com has prepared two Sitemaps as examples that you can take a look at:
These are very simple Sitemaps for a very simple web site, but elaborate sites would have the same requirements.
SpiderGenerator is very fast and easy to use program. Webmasters who wish to know more about it and how to submit to Google\'s back door using the Spider program can follow the link that we have put on our example .html sitemap. That\'s all their is to it.
About LeadGenerationClub
Leadgenerationclub is the premier distributor of optin email address lists on the web. An all-inclusive club where marketers can access free bulk emailing software programs, 2,000,000 FREE optin email addresses with each membership, and an additional 200,000 optin email addresses per month. For more information about LeadGenerationclub, visit http://www.leadgenerationclub.com, or contact Marilyn Best, Email: mbest404@yahoo.com.