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Go to Google and create a webmaster account, if you do not have one.
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Sign In to your account.
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Click on the Webmaster Tools link.
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Add your domain, including the http://www.
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After you add your site, you will want to verify it. Click on Verify your site. Google gives you a choice of adding a bit of code to your index page html, or to the header. Your choice.
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Add the code to your index page, upload it to your server and then click on the Verify button. You are done with Google.
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The last thing is to make sure that you DO NOT have a meta tag saying any of the following:
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow"> <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"> <meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow"> <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">
If you have one of those in your index page, please remove it, as it may cause problems.
What Is A Sitemap? - A site map (or sitemap) is a web page that lists the pages on a web site, typically organized in hierarchical fashion. This helps visitors and search engine bots find pages on the site.
Site maps can improve search engine optimization of a site by making sure that all the pages can be found. This is especially important if a site uses Macromedia Flash or JavaScript menus that do not include HTML links.
Site maps do have limitations. Most search engines will only follow a finite number of links from a page, so if a site is very large, additional strategies besides the site map may be required so that search engines and visitors can access all content on the site.
While some developers argue that site index is a more appropriately used term to relay page function, web visitors are used to seeing each term and generally associate both as one and the same.
