With HTML and XML sitemaps you can help Google, Yahoo and other search engines to:
* Index your entire website including blogs and forums.
* Speed up finding and showing changed content.
* Ease the bandwidth load on your webserver.
* Decide pages shown in search engine result pages.
The most important sitemaps you can create:
* XML sitemaps protocol: Ping Google, Yahoo, Ask, MSN with XML sitemaps / Google sitemaps.
* Google mobile sitemap: Google XML sitemap for mobile phones content.
* Google news sitemap: Google XML sitemap for news content.
* Google video sitemap: Google XML sitemap for videos.
* Google code sitemap: Google XML sitemap for source code files.
* Google image sitemap: Google XML sitemap for images and graphics.
* Google base feed: Google Base extends RSS feeds. (Only common tags are supported.)
* RSS sitemap feed: RSS feed files use XML and often used for blog and forum websites.
* ROR sitemap feed: ROR sitemaps extends RSS feeds with more information.
* ASP.net web sitemap: ASP.Net website navigation and menu controls use Web.sitemap files.
* Text sitemap: Sitemap URL list format used by some search engines, e.g. Google and Yahoo.
* HTML sitemap: Many websites use HTML sitemaps as a navigation aid to visitors.
* HTML menu: HTML sitemap templates can also create URL lists for Javascript and CSS menus.
Create sitemap files for static websites and database-driven dynamic websites.
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