So what’s this thing called a Google Sitemap? Simple, it’s a map of all the pages on a website, by URL. Almost like a street map only in that a sitemap is an XML file containing the layout of your website, with links and all. The intention is to provide search engine spiders like Google and Yahoo an easy roadmap of your website by giving “directions” on where to crawl and index.

Creating a sitemap is pretty simple. If you have a small website – under 500 pages – visit http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ for free …