Yes, creating site map is benefit for both search engines and web visitors.If you want to generate xml sitemap manually, you can follow the below steps:
# Search on the internet to find a standard XML sitemap template (usually with a tree style);
# Open a new file in DreamWeaver and follow your template to edit the sitemap file with XML tags;
# Add the URL of web pages to the file (add the exact URL and do not omit the pages that you want visitors and search engines to find);
# If your website is very large (say, having more than 200 pages), split the large sitemap page into smaller ones (to provide visitors a tidy and clean page to view);
# Edit the anchor text and the URL title to help visitors understand your website. Make sure that each of them is corresponding with the specific URL.
Creating a site map with free site map generator in 5 simple steps:
- You just need to enter the base URL which you would like the search engines to first crawl.
- Set up your URL change frequency, URL priority, URL type and some other optional choices（Of course, we also have preferred settings for you）
- Then the site map software will generate different kinds of sitemaps.
- Save your sitemap files or directly upload them onto your websever.
- Ping your sitemap to search engines with one click.
A part of the key features of Sitemap X?
# Automatically generate standard sitemaps which are validate for all search engines
# Automatically split sitemap files into smaller ones
# Automatically upload generated sitemaps to your server
# Immediately ping search engines about the new or updated sitemaps
# Provide different types (HTML, XML, TXT and GZ) and different styles of sitemaps
# Applicable to index all kinds of websites (including blogs and forums)
# No limits on webpage number and webpage size
In a word, Sitemap X is professional and full-featured, more importantly, it is free and easy to use. One Sitemap X is enough for you to meet all your sitemap related demands. Download now and try it immediately!