Although XML sitemaps will not help you to achieve higher rankings in the search engines they are good because they let search engines know how often to crawl your site and they can make it even easier for search engines to pick up new content. Creating XML Sitemaps with an XML editor from scratch can be a pain, especially if you have more then 50 pages to map out. There are now lot's of sites out there you can use to generate XML sitemaps but the vast majority of them get it wrong, they will either miss out pages of your site, forget the www's at the start of each URL or just totally get it wrong, fortunatly one sitemap generator stands out from the crowd the http://www.xml-sitemaps.com sitemap generator get's it right every time and is by far the best XML sitemap generator going. Simply go to the website, type in your URL, choose how often you would like the search engines to crawl your site and click generate sitemap, the tool will map out every single one of your pages for you in no time, all you need to do now is upload the file onto your server and go and register the sitemap with Google Webmaster tools, you will need to create an account with Google if you don't already have one and then create an extra file for your site to prove to Google that you have control, once you have done this it is easy go to the sitemaps section and submit your sitemap, if all of your pages are not already getting crawled by Google this will help. Want to get a sitemap generated for your site? Click on the link below to get started.

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You should make sure that there is at least one link to the XML sitemap somewhere on your website so that other search engines can find it. If you have any questions about XML sitemaps or you are having problems registering with Google please contact us for free advice.