When developing huge sites or sites that have frequently updated pages , such as new product pages in a shop. It is important that you make it as easy as you possibly can for the Google spiders to crawl and index your page.

Creating a site map should be your first job when finishing development or creating new pages.

There are generally two approaches to creating xml site maps, one option is to create you own from scratch and the other is to use an xml site map generator then edit the output before submitting. The latter is usually favored unless you are making a small change to the structure of your site. (more…)