{"id":11592,"date":"2018-01-06T19:31:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T16:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/?p=11592"},"modified":"2018-01-06T19:31:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T16:31:02","slug":"%d9%83%d9%84-%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%aa%d9%88%d8%af-%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%b1%d9%81%d8%aa%d9%87-%d8%b9%d9%86-%d8%ae%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%b7%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%88%d9%82%d8%b9-sitemap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/%d9%83%d9%84-%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%aa%d9%88%d8%af-%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%b1%d9%81%d8%aa%d9%87-%d8%b9%d9%86-%d8%ae%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%b7%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%88%d9%82%d8%b9-sitemap\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything You Need to Know About Sitemaps"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An undisputed fact for anyone working in the field of Online marketing<\/a>, that search engine visitors are absolutely the most important and best among all methods <\/span><\/p>\n

Get visitors<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Therefore, it was imperative for every website owner to make their website optimized for the way Search engines<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is generally called the science of SEO<\/a> Or search engine optimization.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to get good visitors from search engines, you must start by letting search engines know about the links on your website, <\/span><\/p>\n

And then crawl them well, and then index them.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this article, we will talk about a very important factor among the factors of improving crawling and indexing for websites.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today we will talk about sitemap<\/a> .<\/span><\/p>\n

In this article we will answer these questions:-<\/span><\/p>\n

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-What is a sitemap and what is its importance for every website?<\/span><\/p>\n

-What does a sitemap consist of?<\/span><\/p>\n

-How do I create a sitemap for my website easily?<\/span><\/p>\n

-How do I submit the sitemap to the Google search engine through Google Webmaster Tools<\/span><\/p>\n

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What is a sitemap and what is its function for my website?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

A sitemap is a file uploaded to the root directory of your website files.<\/span><\/p>\n

This file contains all the links on the website, to help the Googlebot and other search engine crawlers crawl your website.<\/span><\/p>\n

This file is usually in XML format<\/span><\/p>\n

This file contains some special signals for website links, including:<\/span><\/p>\n

-Indicating the last time a change was made to each web page.<\/span><\/p>\n

-What is the rate of change in each web page, whether daily, weekly, or annually...etc.<\/span><\/p>\n

-What is the importance of each website link.<\/span><\/p>\n

This gives search engines a guide to the nature of the website pages and their links.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just as you can create a sitemap for website pages, you can also create a sitemap for videos and images within your website.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What is the importance of a sitemap for my website<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

According to Google itself, the sitemap has special importance in the following cases:-<\/span><\/p>\n

-Your website is new, and you want an easy way to introduce search engines to it.<\/span><\/p>\n

-Your website is large in size, with a large number of internal pages.<\/span><\/p>\n

-Your website pages are not linked to each other correctly.<\/span><\/p>\n

Or there are certain pages on your website that are not linked to the rest of the pages.<\/span><\/p>\n

In summary, the importance of a sitemap lies in the fact that it provides a clear, direct, and explicit map for Google's spiders and other search engine spiders.<\/span><\/p>\n

For the purpose of crawling all website pages correctly and more intelligently.<\/span><\/p>\n

To get better results for your website.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What does a sitemap consist of?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/strong><\/span>Any sitemap consists of a very simple code as shown below.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This sitemap is in XML format. The first and second lines of the code are not repeated again in the sitemap and are almost constant in every sitemap.<\/span><\/p>\n

that you create in XML format.<\/span><\/p>\n

After that, you will find that each link on the website contains almost the same code with the link itself changing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is a breakdown of the code that the sitemap contains for each link.<\/span><\/p>\n

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-You will find that any code for any link starts with this small symbol<\/span><\/p>\n

-After that, you will find in the line following the small symbol, a code that starts and ends with this tag . This line contains the link that <\/span><\/p>\n

this part of the code refers to.<\/span><\/p>\n

-In the following line, you will find code that begins and ends with this tag .<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a signal through which the sitemap informs search engines of the last time a change or modification was made to this URL.<\/span><\/p>\n

-In the following line, you will find code that begins and ends with this tag .<\/span><\/p>\n

It indicates the rate of change for each page on the website, whether daily, weekly, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n

-In the line following the change rate, you will find another line that begins and ends with this tag , which indicates the specific priority <\/span><\/p>\n

of this link.<\/span><\/p>\n

This priority is measured from zero to one.<\/span><\/p>\n

For example, the priority of your website's homepage will be set to one.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other pages might be set to 0.7 or 0.8, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n

-The code for any link ends as it began with this tag<\/span><\/p>\n

-At the very end of the sitemap, you will find that it also concludes as it started, with this small tag .<\/span><\/p>\n

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Illustrative example of sitemap structure<\/span><\/h2>\n

The screenshot displayed above is a part of the sitemap for the Al-Rabihon website.<\/span><\/p>\n

By studying this part, you will find at the beginning the first and second lines of code, which are fixed and do not change in any XML sitemap.<\/span><\/p>\n

After that, an additional line begins and ends with extra tags, each on its own line.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a reference to the website through which the sitemap was generated.<\/span><\/p>\n

Next is the part containing the homepage code of the Al-Rabihon website.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the first line, you will find the URL of the homepage, followed by the last date the content of this URL was modified, as shown before you: April 27th,<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is followed by the line specifying the time interval for content changes on this URL.<\/span><\/p>\n

As is clear before you, the change rate is daily, as new content is added to the site every day, and this change appears on the homepage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because it contains links to new articles in the most-watched section and everything new at the top of the homepage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since this is the website's homepage, the crawling priority for it has been set to the highest degree, which is one.<\/span><\/p>\n

The code ended as it began with the url tag.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here, it is essential to point out something extremely important: the sitemap does not force Google or other search engines to crawl <\/span><\/p>\n

your website in a specific way.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rather, it is merely a guide through which you provide search engines with information about your website's links.<\/span><\/p>\n

Google and other search engines have the right to follow this guide or not.<\/span><\/p>\n

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How do you create a\u00a0<\/strong>sitemap<\/strong>\u00a0for your website easily and simply?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

There are many websites that offer sitemap generation services, some of which are free and others paid.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this article, I will not list the most important websites that offer this service.<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead, I will talk about my personal experience and the website I personally use to create the sitemap for Al-Rabihon.<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.xml-sitemaps.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

This is the link to the website, and as for how to use it, it is extremely easy.<\/span><\/p>\n

First, here is a screenshot from the website, and then I will explain how to use it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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All you need to do to get a sitemap for your website is to enter your website URL without any extensions.<\/span><\/p>\n

So that it looks like this: http:\/\/yourwebsite.com<\/span><\/p>\n

In the following field, you must choose the time interval for adding or changing your website content; it is preferable to choose daily.<\/span><\/p>\n

The next option is Use this date\/time:<\/span><\/p>\n

In this case, the website will select today's date as the last date changes were made to the site.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the priority section, choose Automatically Calculated Priority.<\/span><\/p>\n

This means letting the website automatically calculate the priority of each link, and then click the start button.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shortly, based on the size of your website's links, you will get the sitemap in various formats and extensions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Download it in XML format and save it on your computer, then upload it to the root directory of your website files on <\/span>the hosting server.<\/span><\/p>\n

(You can consult a specialist if you lack knowledge or experience in doing this.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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How to submit a sitemap to the Google search engine<\/span><\/h2>\n

You are supposed to have an account in Google Webmaster Tools here.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, no worries, as you can create a new account using a Gmail account.<\/span><\/p>\n

After creating the account, follow these steps:<\/span><\/p>\n

1- Go to the crawl tab.<\/span><\/p>\n

2- Click on the small arrow next to it.<\/span><\/p>\n

3- A drop-down menu will appear, choose sitemaps from it.<\/span><\/p>\n

4- Click on the add\/test sitemaps button at the top right.<\/span><\/p>\n

5- Enter the name of the file you previously uploaded to the hosting, which will most likely be named sitemap.xml.<\/span><\/p>\n

6- Then click the submit button.<\/span><\/p>\n

7- Wait for Google to crawl the website sitemap and index the links it contains.<\/span><\/p>\n

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