Learn how to create a sitemap.xml and robot.txt file for your web project


What is a sitemap file ? a sitemap.xml file is one that contains information regarding all of the pages on your website, the information contained in this file is used by search engines to determine the level of importance and priority of your web pages, this file is written using extensible markup language which is a more detailed and intricate way of creating web documents unlike HTML the tags used in XML are more descriptive, so lets create a sitemap.xml file for a web project with the following pages.

1.www.webproject.com/
2.www.webproject.com/contactUs/
3.www.webproject.com/aboutUs/
4.www.webproject.com/portfolio/


So above is a simple website with four pages, the sitemap file below will contain information about the four pages to be used by search engines.

<urlset xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd">
<url>
<loc>http://www.webproject.com/</loc>
<lastmod>2017-11-15</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>1.0</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.webproject.com/contactUs/</loc>
<lastmod>2017-11-15</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>1.0</priority>
</url>
<url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.webproject.com/aboutUs/</loc>
<lastmod>2017-11-15</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>1.0</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.webproject.com/portfolio</loc>
<lastmod>2017-11-15</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>1.0</priority>
</url>
</urlset>



The tags are self-explanatory for instance the outermost tag is urlset so it will contain a set of url's and the first url tag contains

loc - Specifies the page on the website

lastmod - Indicates the last time the page was modif

Nice

Good piece....the article below will show you how to create one for your website and other infors you need to know about Sitemap.

https://doerstechnologies.com.ng/how-to-generate-create-xml-sitemap-website