Case #
When running SEO optimization and website re-design, it is crucial to have an updated website sitemap. A sitemap is an text file which provides a hierarchy of all site static pages and resources in such a way that they can be read and consumed by search engine crawler bots. This article provides guidance on how to generate a sitemap and submit to search engines for SEO. Sitemaps can support the following formats:
For example, the sitemap of my blog is available at https://stefanos.cloud/sitemap.xml.
Solution #
The following solutions are available for automatically creating a website sitemap:
- https://www.mysitemapgenerator.com/
- https://xmlsitemapgenerator.org/
- https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
- https://www.sitemapgenie.com
Ensure that you submit your sitemap to all major search engines including the following:
- https://google.com and the Google Search Console
- https://bing.com
- https://baidu.com
- https://www.baiduinenglish.com/
- https://qmamu.com/
- https://yandex.com/
- https://metager.org/
- https://duckduckgo.com/
- https://docs.searxng.org/
- https://startpage.com/
- https://ask.com
Refer to the following articles on how to generate and submit your sitemap to search engines:
- Google - https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/sitemaps/build-sitemap
- Bing - https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/sitemaps-3b5cf6ed
- Yandex - https://aioseo.com/docs/submitting-a-sitemap-to-yandex/
- Baidu - Coming soon
- Qmamu - Coming soon
- Yahoo - Coming soon
- Duckduckgo - Coming soon
- Ask.com - Coming soon
