How to Use Google Sitemaps

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Right click your desktop

   Enter your website's url information and save the document as sitemap.txt.
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   Step 2: click New and scroll down to text document.

   , Again save this file as sitemap.txt. ,,,, Under the My Services heading, click webmaster tools. ,, There will be a link that says Add Sitemap; click this link, then choose Add General Web Sitemap. , It should look like this: http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.txt ,
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   Step 3: Enter the pages that make up your site in the following format: http://www.mysite.com/page1.

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   Step 4: Enter your sites information exactly as above

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   Step 5: one web page per line.

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   Step 6: Save this file to your folder that includes all of the pages listed in your navigation structure.

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   Step 7: Publish your website again including the .txt file.

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   Step 8: Create a Google GMAIL account

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   Step 9: if you don't already have one in order to access the Google Webmaster applications for Blogging

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    Step 10: Advertising and creating sitemaps for the Googlebot to crawl.

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    Step 11: Click the My account link.

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    Step 12: Enter your website's name in the Add site box at the top left of the page in the http://www.mysite.com/ format.

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    Step 13: Click your website name and the sitemaps screen will be displayed.

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    Step 14: Enter the url of your sitemap.

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    Step 15: Click Add Web sitemap and wait for the Googlebot.

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