Step 1: Start with making a draft. Write on paper or use your word
processor to formulate a list of links making up your website. You should
know all these by heart, but if you don’t then try visiting your website yourself and check each and every link in it. If you have your list prepared,
validate all items in your list for the second time around. This is very
important because you don’t want any malfunctioning or repeated links in
your sitemap later on.
Step 2: Open a new document or file in your preferred text-editing program.
Copy the list you’ve created with your word processor then paste it on the
document in your text-editing program. Start encoding it in the appropriate
language, save your document, then preview it with your Internet browser.
Step 3: Click on each link to make sure that everything on the page is in
working order. If so, you can then upload it to your website and you’ve got
yourself a sitemap!
Tips on Making Your Sitemap a Traffic-Driving Feature of Your Website
Creating a sitemap, based on the instructions provided above is easy. But
making it a traffic-driving feature of your website requires a bit more effort
on your part. Consider the following suggestions:
Let people you know have a sitemap.
Your sitemap won’t be much help if people aren’t aware it exists in the first
place. Let them know about your sitemap by posting a strategically
positioned and highly visible link on every page in your website.
Don’t make your sitemap too fancy.
People don’t need you to be fancy when you’re offering help. What they
need from you is effectiveness and efficiency. Use basic text links instead of
making your sitemap unnecessarily dynamic.
Update your websites Table of Contents.
If you have one, remember to include a link to your sitemap! Always double-
check links.
Last but not least, remember to regularly check the links in your sitemap to
make certain that they’re active.
Read more:
>-How to Generate Social Traffic
<-How to Create a Sitemap for More Traffic
The Basics of Creating a Sitemap
