Sitemap

Google offered the opportunity to influence the indexing of your site - Google Sitemap.
We create a file in the. XML format with a list of files, the date of the last update, and the frequency of the update.

What does this give?

• Google and Yandex will index all the specified pages of the site,
• will do it quickly
• and in a timely manner will update this information.

Example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">

  <url>
     <loc>https://www.ph4.ru/promote_sitemap.php</loc>
     <lastmod>2005-07-15</lastmod>
     <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
     <priority>0.5</priority>
  </url>

</urlset>

1. loc (location) – web page address, for example www.site.com/post.php or www.site.com/post.php?a=12, ... This tag must be filled in, others are optional.

2. lastmod (last modified) - the date of the last modification of the page

3. changefreq (change frequency) - tells Google how often you update your web page.
   Possible values are:
   1. never,
   2. weekly,
   3. daily,
   4. hourly,
   5. monthly,
   6. yearly.
   If you have a news site, then you have to post daily, so that there is no outdated information and was fresh. If you have a static site, then you need to expose never to clearly record your information in search engines.

4. priority - sets the priority that Google will assign to a particular web page.
   Possible values ​​are:
   1. 0.0 is the lowest priority,
   2. 1.0 is the highest priority,
   3. 0.5 - medium priority
   Attention, the priority set does not raise your page higher or lower. If you put all the pages 1.0 then Google Will report an error in the code and it would be better to just skip this line.

How do I create a Google Sitemap?

This can be done with

1. a number of sites, usually it is paid, and for free only a small number of pages, usually 500.
2. using small programs,
3. PHP script. There are special script-modules for CMS (Wordpress, Drupal ...).