Creating a Sitemap
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August 12, 2008 11:01 AM
A sitemap informs search engines that individual pages on your site are new or updated and are available for crawling. The Sitemap Manager, located in the Hosting Control Center, provides a way to quickly create a sitemap for your primary domain, subdomains, or aliased domains in your Shared Hosting account.
To Create a Sitemap in the Hosting Control Center
- Log in to your Account Manager.
- In the My Products section, select Hosting.
- Click Manage Account next to the hosting account you want to manage.
- Click the Sitemaps icon in the Content section of the Hosting Control Center. This action opens the Sitemap Manager.
- Select the sitemap you want to update.
- Click Create Sitemap.
- Provide the requested information:
- File name
- Create a name for this sitemap file or accept the suggested file name. The sitemap protocol creates the file as an XML document. Therefore, your file name should have the .xml file extension.
- Compress file
- Select this option to compress your sitemap file. If you choose this option, the file will be compressed with gzip and will include the .gz file extension.
- Access log parse
- This option is available only on Linux Shared Hosting accounts. On Windows Shared Hosting accounts, this will display as "No logs to parse."
- Web Crawl
- Select this option to have the system crawl your hosting account and collect URLs within it. Selecting this option enables the two following options.
- Maximum # of URLs to crawl
- Select how many URLs you would like to crawl. The default number of URLs is 100, which is sufficient for most personal and basic business sites.
- Maximum Crawl Depth
- Select how many levels deep you would like the search engine to crawl your site. You can select from 1 to 8 levels, where "1" is equal to your main URL and subsequent numbers equal the depth at which you've linked other pages within your site.
- Click OK. A status window displays.
- Click Close when the system completes collecting URLs. The details of your sitemap display.
- Click Save. A status window displays.
- Click Done to return to the main sitemap page.
NOTE: This process may take several minutes for larger sites.
Your sitemap file is created. For information on editing your sitemap, see Editing a Sitemap.
