Sitemap Example

XML Sitemaps are similar to RSS feeds and use XML to represent the contents of your website in a structured format to give search engines hints about the content of your website .

The Sitemap protocol is an open standard supported by the main search engines including Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Bing.

An XML Sitemap contains 4 basic elements for each page in your website, but can be extended to include more information :

• Url location
  The full URL to the webpage.
• Last modified date
  When the page was last updated.
• Change frequency
  How often the page changes.
  Never, Yearly, Monthly, Weekly, Daily, Hourly, Always
• Page priority
  A number 0.0, 0.1, 0.2 through to 1.0 to indicate the relative priority of pages within your website.

Example

A simple XML sitemap example would look like this :

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          http://www.g-mapper.co.uk/index.aspx        2010-10-01        daily        0.8              http://www.g-mapper.co.uk/about.aspx        2009-01-01        yearly        0.1    _ The marked up example sitemap below further explains the content of an XML sitemap :

Example sitemap explained

Create you own

You can quickly and easily generator your own sitemap example using our sitemap generators.

Alternatively you can look at our sitemap as an example : https://xmlsitemapgenerator.org/sitemap.xml