The videos listed below will give you detailed instructions on the proper way of using Sitemap Automator. These videos were made to help make your experience using Sitemap Automator as easy as possible. Watch each video carefully, and in the order in which it is listed.
This video is an update to an older video tutorial. In this video, we will show you how to properly verify your website with Google Webmaster Tools using Sitemap Automator, and then submit your Sitemap to Google and the other major search engines. If you haven’t already, please watch the first part of this tutorial which will show you how to create and publish an XML Sitemap.
Video Transcript:
So now that our Sitemaps have been published to our websites, we must notify the search engines. To do so, we’ll simply press the Notify Search Engines button. When you press this button, you will most likely see this window popup. This window is for instructions on notifying Google about your Sitemap. Notifying Google is slightly different from notifying other search engines. To notify Google, we will be creating an account for what is called Google Webmater Tools. In Google Webmaster Tools, we will be provided with some very useful information about our websites.
So to begin the process, first click on the Create account button. Your web browser will appear at the Google Webmaster Tools website. The first thing you’ll need to do is sign in with you Google account. If you don’t have an account, you can easily create one by clicking on the button for signing up for a new account.
When you are logged in the first thing you will need to do is click on the Add a site button. Then, you will need to paste your site’s URL and press the Continue button. Note that you did not copy your URL, but it was copied for you when you pressed on the Create Account button to be taken to Google Webmaster Tools.
Our next step is to verify our website. The reason we must verify is because Google Webmaster Tools will provide us with certain information about our sites. Information that only the webmaster should have, and not the general public. Because of this, we verify that we are the actual owner of the site.
First, we’ll click on the link to download the HTML verification file.
Then we’ll go back to Sitemap Automator, and select File in the menu bar, followed by Publish Verification File. Then press the Select Verification File button, and locate the verification file that you just downloaded. Highlight it and click Open.
Now we must Publish the verification file. If you publish to iDisk, click the Publish to iDisk button. If you publish to FTP, press the Publish to FTP button. Publish the file just like you did when you published the Sitemap.
When you are done publishing, go back to your web browser to where Google Webmaster Tools is open, and click on the link to confirm that the uploading of the file was successful. If you see a page like this, then you have done it correctly. If you get an error, then you have not done it correctly and you must try it again.
If you have published it correctly, click the Verify button.
You have now successfully verified your site. We have just a couple more steps left at this point. If you see this page, click the Continue button.
Make sure you get to your site’s Dashboard in Google Webmaster Tools. Click on Site Configuration, and then select Sitemaps. Then click on Submit a Sitemap and then type in sitemap.xml just like I am doing.
At this point, you have just submitted your Sitemap to Google.
Now just go back to Sitemap Automator and click on the Notify Search Engines button and your Sitemap will have been submitted to Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.
Remember to subscribe and visit our site for the next steps in our Sitemap Automator Instructional series.
The video tutorial below will show you the basics of creating an XML Sitemap using Sitemap Automator. We will also cover the basic points of publishing your Sitemap to your server.
Video Transcript:
To create an XML Sitemap using Sitemap Automator, the first thing you must do is add your site’s URL by clicking the New Sitemap button, and typing in your URL. Pay close attention to make sure there are no mistakes in your URL such as seeing http more than once.
Then click on the Create Sitemap button. Sitemap Automator will now scan through your website and find all of the available internal links on your site. When it is done you will be able to see all of the links that it was able to find.
Your next step is to click the Generate Sitemap button.
Now we must publish this Sitemap to our server. From the drop down menu, select to publish either to your iDisk or to your FTP server, and then press the Publish button.
If you publish to iDisk, your publish window will look like this. Select the option to publish to the root folder if you only have one website on your MobileMe account. If you have more than one, select the option to publish to selected website, and then select the website that you want to publish the Sitemap to, and then press the Publish button.
If you publish to FTP, your publish window will look like this. Enter your FTP login details in each of the fields. The Server field is usually just your website’s URL without the http, or www. If you are unsure of what your username, password, or root directory path may be, you will need to contact your web host to find out. When you are finished filling all the fields out, press the Upload button.
Your Sitemap should now be live on your site.
Remember to subscribe and visit our site for the next steps in our Sitemap Automator Instructional series.
This video will demonstrate how you can check to see if you have correctly published your XML Sitemap using Sitemap Automator.
To check to see if your Sitemap has published correctly, first open your website in your web browser.
If your site shows up as yourdomain.com, then type in sitemap.xml beside the domain, similar to how I am doing it. If the sitemap shows up, then you have published it correctly.
If your site was made in iWeb, it might look something like this. Just replace pagename.html with sitemap.xml.
If your iWeb website’s URL contains the Site Name in the middle here, then you can replace these two items with sitemap.xml
If that doesn’t work, you can also try seeing if your Sitemap is located inside of the site folder by just replacing pagename.html with sitemap.xml like this.
If none of these options worked for you, then you most likely did not publish your Sitemap correctly, and you must try it again.
Now with Sitemap Automator 2.2 you can create XML Sitemaps for you very large websites. Sitemap Automator can now create XML Sitemap Index files meaning you can now submit more than 50,000 links to search engines.
This free update also includes improved support for MobileMe users with the ability to publish your XML Sitemaps to your root directory. By publishing to your root directory you will be able to see all the stats in your Google Webmaster Tools account. Also, by publishing your XML Sitemap files to your root directory on your MobileMe account, they will no longer get overwritten when making changes to your iWeb site and republishing it.
Sitemap Automator helps users get their website listed in all major search engines by creating specially formatted sitemap files, called XML Sitemaps, and submitting them to Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com.
Some of the highlights of the new interface and new features include;
An all new dashboard that shows your most important data including top search queries, top incoming links as well as any errors found on your website which may effect how Google and other searches crawl your website.
Up to 100 top search queries for your website and up to 100 top clicked search queries.
The ability to track XML Sitemaps submitted by other users of your site.
You can now subscribe to messages sent to your Webmaster Tools account so you get them right to your email. You no longer have to login to your account to check your messages
All in all, this new updated offers some much needed new features. We especially like the addition of showing up to 100 search queries. If you haven’t already done so, create your XML Sitemap today and get access to all of this important information about your website.
Yesterday we released an update to RAGE Sitemap Automator, the essential tool for getting your website listed in search engines.
The latest update adds full support for iWeb based websites. It can now properly scan and find all links on an iWeb created website as well as automatically publish your XML Sitemap file on your iDisk in the correct location. It also adds some other fixed and enhancements.
If you have an iWeb web site, make sure you have read our SEO for iWeb blog post so you can learn how to rank your iWeb site high in search engines.
Note: We released version 1.9.6 today which fixed a small bug that made incompatible sitemap files. So if you have downloaded version 1.9.5 please download the free 1.9.6 update.
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