Search Engine Sitemap Submissions

Standards are plentiful on the Internet but everyone’s idea of standards seem to be a little warped. Webmasters have been trying to ensure that the websites we build are available to all search engine crawlers, however, in many cases it’s just not possible 100% of the time. Search engines like Google™, Yahoo™ and MSN™ know this and have, in conjunction with www.sitemaps.org, sponsored the development of the Sitemap Protocol.

If you take the time to read the sitemap protocol you may make it to the end of the page, but I’m sure you’ll need a lie down afterwards.

So as not to bore you, the protocol is an XML based document that describes your website’s pages to search engines - that’s it, in a nutshell. This allows those search engines to categorise your website's pages so that they can be used when people search the topics within them. If a search engine doesn’t know about your pages, people searching will never find them.

Our sitemap submission service will firstly generate an XML sitemap which conforms to the protocol and we will then submit the sitemap to the search engines for processing.

The main benefit to you is that you can expose your website’s pages to search engines and ensure that those search engines will catalogue them all. You don’t need to learn new skills and don’t need to concern yourself with the techie stuff.