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24/01/2014

How to Build a Website - Day 16 to 21 - Sitemap and Writing Articles

Days 16 and 17 Write Even More

Write more articles and upload them on your site, blog about them as well

When you create a website, you need to constantly add articles to it. Today and tomorrow, you are going to spend the day looking for information, pictures, videos, etc. This will come in handy for writing the two new articles that your site needs. 

You are also going to write introduction post on your blog so as to drive more traffic to your main website. Don't forget to ping your blog posts and to promote your articles using social medias.



 

Day 18 Create your Site Sitemap

A sitemap is like a virtual picture of your website


Now that you wrote a few articles, you will create a sitemap. A sitemap is essential for any website and indexes all your links pages. You will thus create a new web page and add all the links of your sites on it (homepage, article 1, article 2, etc). Do not add Adsense ads on your sitemap!!! 


All your webpages should include a link to your sitemap. However, it is not mandatory. You might wonder why... Well actually search engines are going to need an .xml sitemap and not an .html one. The sitemap that you are going to create is going to be useful for your readers. However they can get access to your articles through your navigation bar...

But you need a second sitemap for search engines.

Go to: http://www.xml-sitemaps.com and create a ".xml" sitemap.

Upload the ".xml" sitemap on your computer and go to: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ (Google Webmaster Tools); register or login with your gmail identifier. Add the URL of your site, upload the sitemap and follow Google's instructions in order to verify your site. Your site is now ready to be indexed by Google.

At this moment, your site contains a homepage, some articles and a sitemap. You already received a certain number of visitors thanks to the articles you submitted to the articles directories and your blog posts.


Days 19 to 21 Writing More, Blog Posting, Promotion

Article writing is definitely the best traffic generator to your online business!


Now that you have created your sitemap you will focus on your website content. Write two new articles. Once the first article is finished, upload it on your server, and write a blog post about it. Promote this post. Repeat the steps for the second article. Update your navigation bar and sitemap with the links to these articles.




Posted by Holly Day

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