XML Sitemaps

XML Sitemap Creation & Submission

If you’re eager to establish a prominent profile for your website on the web, you’ll want search engines not merely to find it, but to find out about it, too. So, just how do you get search engine spiders to crawl around your site and gather useful information for those all-important results pages?

The answer is simple; create an XML sitemap. XML sitemaps enable you to inform search engines about all the URLs which are publicly available and active on your website, allowing them to be stored in the search engine’s database. XML (‘Extensible Markup Language’) files also allow you to include additional information about each of the URLs you’ve enabled the spiders to find. This can include when the page was last updated, how frequently it changes, and how it ranks in importance to other pages on your site. The XML file, in other words, gets the search engine spiders to crawl around your site more intelligently and, in conjunction with robots.txt, it instructs the search engine about what information its database should include and exclude.

XML sitemaps won’t solely guarantee you top position on the results pages, but they’re one of the many search engine optimization techniques we can implement here at Exults. We combine our SEO techniques to get you optimal search engine rankings and we know that creating effective XML sitemaps is an integral part of this process. Google’s spiders are actively scouring the web during all hours of the day and night. We can make sure that what they find yields intelligent results in the Google Index, significantly helping relevant web-surfers to find your site without delay.

Exults’s expertly-crafted XML sitemaps helps to ensure that more pages from your site will be indexed, spiders will prioritize retrieval of your pages and you’ll see faster discovery of your pages.

For most purposes, the most important search engine index to get yourself into is the Google Index. At Exults, we know how to use Google webmaster tools to create the most informative Google XML sitemap. Our experts will create an XML formatted sitemap, providing a logically hierarchical list of the website’s pages. We know precisely how to get your URLs recognized by the spiders and then stored in the search engine’s index. We’ll upload the XML sitemap we’ve created to the root of the web server and submit it to Google Webmaster Tools. This web service lets webmasters monitor their indexing status and enhance the visibility of their site, as well as check the crawl rate of the spiders (the ‘Googlebots’).

We aim to get it right first time at Exults, optimizing your site’s data to ensure that it is accurately ‘seen’ and communicated to the spiders. By the time they get back to the Google Index, Exults’s expert intervention will have ensured that your website gets the most prominent profile possible on the search engine results page.