If your website's pages aren't in the databases of the major search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN they can't be found by people searching for your products and services. And if your web pages can't be found, you're losing business opportunities.
There was a time when you had to wait for the search engines to "crawl" your website, and hope they didn't miss anything. But now you don't have to wait around for the search engines to find and index the pages on your website when (and if) they get around to it. You can take control of your own online destiny with a Sitemap.
What is a Sitemap?
A Sitemap is a list of all the pages in your website, put together in a way the search engines can read. Once your Sitemap is created, it's uploaded to your web server and the search engines are directed to its location. The search engines can then read your Sitemap and catalog those pages in their databases, where they have a chance to be found by security buyers. (Want to see what a Sitemap looks like? Take a look at ours.)
This process has some very important benefits. First, it ensures that all of the pages on your website are indexed. It also increases how often your website is "crawled" and updated by the search engines. And in concert with a search engine optimization program, it helps your web pages rank higher in search results.
Don't Take a Chance With Your Visibility on the Web
When it comes to maximizing results from your website the most important step is to do everything possible to be found by potential customers. Here's what the search engines themselves have to say about the benefits of a Sitemap:
Creating and submitting a Sitemap helps make sure that Google knows about all the pages on your site, including URLs that may not be discoverable by Google's normal crawling process. We use the data in your Sitemap to learn about your site's structure, which will allow us to improve our crawler schedule and do a better job crawling your site in the future. In most cases, webmasters will benefit from Sitemap submission. ~ Google
Using Sitemap protocol supplements the other methods that we use to discover URLs. Submitting a Sitemap helps Yahoo! crawlers do a better job of crawling your site. ~ Yahoo
A Sitemap enables you to provide Webmaster Center with a comprehensive list of the content you would like Live Search to crawl. Sitemaps help search engines discover and index more content on your website. ~ Windows Live Search (MSN)
So why leave your visibility on the web to chance? Have us create and submit a Sitemap for your website for only $49. It's one of the best investments you can make to ensure your online success.
