You have created a great website and have been wondering when people would get to know your website. You want your SEO for your website to work and you want to let Google let you know that you have such useful content and quality content. What you are gonna do? First things first and always first!!
To make your site rank in the search engine especially Google, you should have the web pages of your website indexed in the Google's database. Any guesses how you do that..? Is it going to Google's Directory or Dmoz's Directory to submit your webiste..???
If your answer to these questions is "yes" then ummm... probably you are right but Of course you have failed to hit the Bull's Eye!!!
If you want your website to indexed in Google with proper information about each and every page i.e. their metadata you need to use Google's Webmaster Tool. Oh.. No need to worry that's absolutely free, truly in Google's style!!
First of all you need to create an XML Sitemap of your website. This XML site map will contain the list of all your url's in your website. Along with the URL your xml site map should also have some information about what these urls (web pages) contain. Then you have to include some Metadata of your web pages, these are title and description of each and every page. This should be unique. Say if you have a website which has 1000 pages. huh ?!! Is it possible to create xml tags 1000 plus xml tags for each page including title, description and url ? Of course not. That is why you would use tools. Tools that create xml site map for you as soon as you copy paste the home page url of your website. XMLSitemaps.com is one such useful website to create XML sitemaps of your website.
Now rather than writing in paragraph I would like to point wise so that it become easier for you to follow it.
1. Download sitemap.xml in your desktop and upload it to your server where you have kept your home page of the website.
2. Now you should be able to see the xml sitemap by typing url www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml
3. Open another webiste www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps . Now sign in using your Google Account username and password. you will find a webpage showing dashboard.
4. In the dashboard below sites enter the url of your website and press "Add Site" button. Your site will be visible underneath. On the right hand side you will find a clolumns sitemap.
5. Under this column click "Add" link. A nwe Page will open up , under choose tupe list box choose general sitemap.
6. Below a text box will appear where you enter the sitemap url --> www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml and click "Add General Sitemap" button.
7. Next page a code will appear prepare a plain HTML page and name it as the code provided. Then finally upload the page in in the same directory of your web server where you have placed your home page.
8. Now when you do all these your site xml data is uploaded in the Google. You may like to verify the sitemap.xml file for error free xml codes which Google takes very strictly.
9. After the verification is over open Google.com after 48 hrs. and type in the search box--> site:http://www.mysite.com and see the listing. You will see the pages of your website indexed. Count the no. of pages with the list to confirm the all pages have been indexed properly !!!
Genrally it will !!
If you don't see within 48 hrs. you may check the updates in the www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps about the status. Genrally it takes 2 - 5 days for Google to do the same.
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