Sitemaps are important to help search engines know where to roam on your website. While there are lots of ways to generate the sitemap, I’d like to show you how to move it to your website. I’ve also included adding your site map to Google’s Webmaster Tools. By the way, the file for your site map is usually called:
sitemap.xml
If you were able to make this work for you, enter your website in the comments below to let everyone know it worked!
I used this to add a sitemap to my newest adventure: http://www.blogkickstart.com
Thanks for the tutorial! It was very easy to understand and I got my Sitemap uploaded with no problems.
Glad it worked for you, Meredith. Happy to help.
Thank you for the tutorial. It was really easy except one part really screwed me up as a noob. I use bluehost.com as my host and I needed to enter the Dedicated IP address (found in cPanel) as the host.
Great point, Chase! If you have a dedicated IP address, it is usually interchangeable with your domain name. However, most folks tend to use a share IP as it is less expensive.
Thanks again for point this out!
Theresa 😎
Great tutorial, although I tend to prefer Maytech.net over filezilla