Dynamic Sitemaps

Creating a sitemap for your site is a crucial part of your search engine optimisation process. This XML sitemap is read by Google and provides information about the location of pages contained within your site.

Most people use a static site map generator that simply crawls through all the URLs in your site at that particular point in time.
But what if pages are being constantly added to your site?
Unless you run your website crawler on a very regular basis there will be pages that will be excluded from your sitemap, which Google will not see.

The answer……. Create a dynamic sitemap!

Sitemaps can be made dynamic using a programming language such as PHP and a back end database. This ensures that every time you update your database, a new entry is made to this sitemap.
This is very beneficial as Google will read these new URLS when downloading your sitemap, providing it with more information as to which pages to spider.
The more pages you can get spidered the better change you will obtain listings for that page in the major search engines.

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