How To Find Your Website Sitemap

 If you are submitting your website to search engines; you will find that having a site map of your website is a must—as it is a literal map of your entire site, which allows search engine crawlers to find and crawl your site thereby leading to better search results. Whatever reason you find that you need a sitemap, here you'll learn just how easy it is to locate and download it.   Click on the images below to enlarge.



Here you'll learn just how easy it is to locate and download it.


What is a Sitemap?



 STEP ONE


  • Open your browser
Open your browser



STEP TWO


  • In the address bar, type your website url directly followed by /sitemap.xml (see the image below)

type your website url directly followed by /sitemap.xml

STEP THREE

  • After you type in the address above, click Enter
  • Immediately after you click Enter a pop-up window should appear (location of the pop-up window will depend on which browser you are using).   
  • Click 'Save' to save to your computer as a .xml file.  This will be the file you will need to upload to various search engines (such as GOOGLE).


Click 'Save' to save your sitemap to your computer




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