In 2005, the search engine Google launched the Sitemap 0.84 Protocol, which would be using the XML format, Google published it under the Attribution/Share Alike Creative Commons license and Yahoo and MSN agreed to "officialy support" the XML protocol.
In simple terms, creating and submitting an XML Sitemap helps make sure that Google and other search engines know about all the pages on your site, including URLs that may not be discoverable by there normal crawling process.
Sitemaps are particularly helpful if:- Your site has dynamic content.
- Your site has pages that aren't easily discovered by Googlebot during the crawl process, for example, pages featuring rich AJAX or Flash.
- Your site is new and has few links to it.
- Your site has a large archive of content pages that are not well linked to each other, or are not linked at all.
- How often the pages on your site change.
- The date each page was last modified.
- The relative importance of pages on your site.
We specialise in creating xml site maps for our clients, we can either provide you with the site-map to pass on to your web developer, or we can install it on your site.
