What is a Sitemap?
Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to
inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for
indexing/crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists
URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last
updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to
other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the
site.
Web crawlers usually discover pages from links
within the site and from other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow
crawlers that support Sitemaps to pick up all URLs in the Sitemap and learn
about those URLs using the associated metadata. Using the Sitemap protocol does
not guarantee that web pages are included in search engines, but provides hints
for web crawlers to do a better job of crawling your site.
How to generate your SuperSite/PartnerSite
Sitemap?
IMPORTANT
By default, the sitemap.xml file for your
SuperSite/PartnerSite contains only sample code. You need to generate your
SuperSite/PartnerSite Sitemap and update the sitemap.xml file.
There are several online free Sitemap
Generators that can assist you in generating your SuperSite/PartnerSite Sitemap.
Some of the popular ones are listed below:
You may either use one of above mentioned
resources and then tweak the result to change the Last Modified Date or
Priority, or choose to create a Sitemap.xml file manually by referring to the
Sitemap XML syntax and usage guidelines.
Click here to
review information about how to prepare a Sitemap.xml file >>
How to save/edit the Sitemap.xml file in your
SuperSite/PartnerSite?
IMPORTANT
- By default, your SuperSite/PartnerSite will
only serve the sitemap.xml file of your Default Site.
- You may create a sitemap.xml for each
Live Site configured in your SuperSite/PartnerSite.
- Once generated, your SuperSite and
PartnerSite Sitemap would be directly accessible
from http://Your-SuperSite-Domain-Name.com/sitemap.xml and http://Your-PartnerSite-Domain-Name.com/sitemap.xml
respectively.
Reference:
Default and Live SuperSite/PartnerSite >>
Follow the below mentioned process to save/edit
your Sitemap:
- Login to your SuperSite/PartnerSite Admin Area.
Click here to
learn how >>
- Under the My Language SuperSites, click on the
Manage Site button individually besides the language for which you want
to save/edit the Sitemap.
- Then click on the Edit Content button.
- Here click on Edit besides the Sitemap.html file at the bottom
of the page.
- Place the sitemap.xml file content in the Your Content textbox.
IMPORTANTDo
not precede <?xml
version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> in your Sitemap content. Mentioning
this would cause your sitemap.xml to not work as desired.
- Click on Save Changes.
