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Create a Sitemap...................................................

6 Type .

7 Type the path to your
homepage.

8 Type .

1 Create a new blank document
in your editor.

2 Type <?xml version=
”1.0” encoding=
”utf-8” ?>.

3 Type <urlset.

4 Type xmlns=”www.
sitemap.org/schemas/
sitemap/0.9”>.

5 Type .

Create a Sitemap

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ne of the easiest ways to get Google and other search engines to catalog the pages in your site

is to create a sitemap. This special file allows you to tell the engine what pages on your site

should be added to their index. Sitemaps for search engines should follow the structure developed

at the Sitemap.org Web site. The document is written in XML, a tag-based language very similar to

HTML. You must always use absolute paths for your pages. Other options allow you to define how

often your page is updated to try to get engines to see the latest revisions.

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