{"id":244,"date":"2009-02-06T19:52:27","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T11:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.qlickcafe.com\/blogs\/?p=244"},"modified":"2009-02-06T19:52:27","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T11:52:27","slug":"creating-sitemapxml-manually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qlickcafe.com\/blogs\/qlick-solutions\/creating-sitemapxml-manually\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating sitemap.xml manually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wondering &#8230; how to optimized your website for search engines like google?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one that will help you how to increase your site&#8217;s search engine visibility.<\/p>\n<p>How to create Sitemap.xml manually using your plain old text editor&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1.) Create a text file using notepad and save it Sitemap.xml.<br \/>\n2.) Type or copy the following text in the first and second line of the xml file.<br \/>\n&lt;?xml version=&#8221;1.0&#8243; encoding=&#8221;UTF-8&#8243;?&gt;<\/p>\n<p>&lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/sitemaps.org\/protocol.php#urlsetdef\">urlset<\/a> xmlns=&#8221;http:\/\/www.sitemaps.org\/schemas\/sitemap\/0.9&#8243;&gt;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>3.) For each links or pages you wish to be crawl by search engine add the following format.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-6253842080202367\";\n\/* 468x60, created 1\/13\/09 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"9323334255\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/ --><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/sitemaps.org\/protocol.php#urldef\">url<\/a>&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/sitemaps.org\/protocol.php#locdef\">loc<\/a>&gt;http:\/\/www.qlickcafe.com\/&lt;\/loc&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/sitemaps.org\/protocol.php#lastmoddef\">lastmod<\/a>&gt;2005-01-01&lt;\/lastmod&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/sitemaps.org\/protocol.php#changefreqdef\">changefreq<\/a>&gt;monthly&lt;\/changefreq&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/sitemaps.org\/protocol.php#prioritydef\">priority<\/a>&gt;0.8&lt;\/priority&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;\/url&gt;<\/p>\n<p>&lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/sitemaps.org\/protocol.php#urldef\">url<\/a>&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/sitemaps.org\/protocol.php#locdef\">loc<\/a>&gt;http:\/\/www.qlickcafe.com\/blogs\/&lt;\/loc&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/sitemaps.org\/protocol.php#lastmoddef\">lastmod<\/a>&gt;2005-01-01&lt;\/lastmod&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/sitemaps.org\/protocol.php#changefreqdef\">changefreq<\/a>&gt;monthly&lt;\/changefreq&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/sitemaps.org\/protocol.php#prioritydef\">priority<\/a>&gt;0.8&lt;\/priority&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;\/url&gt;<br \/>\n4. After encoding all your pages or links end it with a closing tag for the urlset.<br \/>\n&#8221; &lt;\/urlset&gt; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>5. Then upload the file to your \/root folder where you saved the index.html or index.php .<\/p>\n<p>Note that Sitemap protocol format consists of XML tags. All data values in a Sitemap must                 be <a href=\"http:\/\/sitemaps.org\/protocol.php#escaping\">entity-escaped<\/a>. The file itself must be UTF-8 encoded.<\/p>\n<p>The Sitemap must:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Begin with an opening <code>&lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/sitemaps.org\/protocol.php#urlsetdef\">urlset<\/a>&gt;<\/code> tag and                     end with a closing <code>&lt;\/urlset&gt;<\/code> tag.<\/li>\n<li>Specify the namespace (protocol standard) within the <code>&lt;urlset&gt;<\/code> tag.<\/li>\n<li>Include a <code>&lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/sitemaps.org\/protocol.php#urldef\">url<\/a>&gt;<\/code> entry for each URL, as                     a parent XML tag.<\/li>\n<li>Include a <code>&lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/sitemaps.org\/protocol.php#locdef\">loc<\/a>&gt;<\/code> child entry for each <code> &lt;url&gt;<\/code> parent tag.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All other tags are optional. Support for these optional tags may vary among search                 engines. Refer to each search engine&#8217;s documentation for details.<\/p>\n<p>Also, all URLs in a Sitemap must be from a single host, such as www.example.com                 or store.example.com. For further details, refer the <a href=\"http:\/\/sitemaps.org\/protocol.php#location\">Sitemap file                     location<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Sample XML Sitemap<\/h3>\n<p>The following example shows a Sitemap that contains just one URL and uses all optional                 tags. The optional tags are in italics.<\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&lt;?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?&gt;\n&lt;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/sitemaps.org\/protocol.php#urlsetdef\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">urlset<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.sitemaps.org\/schemas\/sitemap\/0.9\"&gt;\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0&lt;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/sitemaps.org\/protocol.php#urldef\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">url<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&gt;\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0&lt;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/sitemaps.org\/protocol.php#locdef\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">loc<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&gt;http:\/\/www.qlickcafe.com\/&lt;\/loc&gt;\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&lt;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/sitemaps.org\/protocol.php#lastmoddef\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">lastmod<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&gt;2005-01-01&lt;\/lastmod&gt;\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0&lt;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/sitemaps.org\/protocol.php#changefreqdef\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">changefreq<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&gt;monthly&lt;\/changefreq&gt;\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0&lt;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/sitemaps.org\/protocol.php#prioritydef\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">priority<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&gt;0.8&lt;\/priority&gt;<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0&lt;\/url&gt;\n&lt;\/urlset&gt;<\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wondering &#8230; how to optimized your website for search engines like google? 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