Acronis Recovery for MS SQL Server + maintenance

Acronis Recovery for MS SQL Server is a cutting-edge, reliable, and cost-effective backup and recovery tool for MS SQL databases. With this comprehensive solution, you can restore your databases in case of any unforeseen event. Backing up only data in your databases is not enough, since they include tables, logs and other components that structure the data. Acronis provides you with a smart utility allowing for live backups of all database components as well as data proper. With Acronis Recovery for MS SQL Server, you can create a Disaster Recovery Plan, which will provide you with step-by-step instructions on system recovery. The technology is so easy that even non-DBAs can successfully apply it to recover lost databases. Besides, Acronis Recovery for MS SQL Server Assistant will take you through all the tasks, which will even facilitate your work. Acronis Recovery for MS SQL Server streamlines and reduces manual administrative work with its intuitive wizard-driven GUI. Acronis’ new database imaging technology eliminates backup disk space requirements by up to 96%. The program includes all the necessary techniques to customize the processes, minimizing time for maintenance and backup creation and thus achieving maximum return from the software and equipment. Acronis’ award-winning technology provides superior image file optimization. Customizable compression rates reduce the amount of data to store and transfer, leading to direct cost savings in storage and labor. One-step Recovery and Automated Recovery to the Point-of-Failure makes recovery as fast as possible helping an organization to meet superior Recovery Time Objective (RTO). Rolling Snapshot can recover near instantaneously in case of human error or logical data corruption. You can protect your company's most valuable data with industry-standard strong encryption. AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) is available with three key lengths – 128, 192 and 256 bits to balance performance and protection as desired. The Acronis Recovery for MS SQL Server Management Console automatically detects all database servers on the network. The servers are displayed clearly with status information, making it easy to manage enterprise-wide. With Acronis Recovery for MS SQL Server, you get a number of advantages: You can configure your backup strategy in seconds by importing a preexisting Microsoft SQL Server Maintenance Plan. Automatically created snapshots enable the database to be recovered in seconds – in cases of data corruption or human error – by simply discarding changes (for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition only). You can create backups up to 10 times smaller than the original uncompressed format. Three compression levels let you optimize for faster performance, smaller size, or a balance of both. With Acronis Recovery for MS SQL Server, you can also control bandwidth usage to keep the backup process transparent to network users; configure notification via e-mail and SNMP; perform backup while the database is online to secure 24/7 availability. Every restore scenario can be executed in one step. There is no need to manually restore from different archives keeping in mind the database state. You are allowed to migrate to another Microsoft SQL Server version by simply restoring the database to a newer Microsoft SQL Server Installation; schedule the complete backup strategy, including Full, Differential and backup of Transaction Logs in one action. Supported Microsoft SQL Server versions include Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 (SP4+), Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (SP3a+, both 32-bit and 64-bit versions), Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine Release A, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (both 32-bit and 64-bit versions), Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express. Acronis Recovery for MS SQL Server supports x86 and x64 platforms, and the following operating systems: Windows 2000 (SP4+), Windows XP (SP1+), Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 (both 32-bit and 64-bit versions).

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Acronis True Image Home 2009 Upgrade

This is an upgrade to the latest version of Acronis True Image Home. If you have purchased Acronis True Image Deluxe, Acronis True Image 6.0, Acronis True Image 7.0, Acronis True Image 7.0 Personal, Acronis True Image 8.0, Acronis True Image 8.0 Personal, Acronis True Image 9.0, Acronis True Image 10 Home and Acronis True Image 11Home before, you can easily upgrade them to Acronis True Image Home 2009. Acronis True Image Home 2009 is an award-winning backup and recovery solution for a good reason: it protects your PC after just one click and allows you to recover from viruses, unstable software downloads, and failed hard drives. Create an exact copy of your PC and restore it from a major failure in minutes, or back up important files and recover them even faster. New!One-click™ protection Initially, you decide what, where and when to back up. After that, backups occur automatically or with just one click. New!Full text search Search for file name and/or content within an archive, using Windows or Google™— desktop search. Making reserve copies of your backups You can make reserve copies of your backups and save them on a network drive, or a USB storage device. You have a choice of making a reserve copy as regular (flat) files, a zip compressed file, and a tib file. New!Zip archive format support available In addition to Acronis' powerful TIB data compression backup format, one of the most densely compressed backup file types available to consumers, Acronis True Image Home 2009 also supports the popular ZIP® format. Consolidation You can define rules for consolidating your archives to reduce storage space. Merge an older full backup with several incremental backups to quickly create a new full backup; subsequent backups are based on the newly-created full backup. New!Windows Vista® -style Interface The new, sleek interface of this product works on Microsoft® Windows XP and Vista operating systems.

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Acronis True Image Home 2009

Acronis True Image Home 2009 is an award-winning backup and recovery solution for a good reason: it protects your PC after just one click and allows you to recover from viruses, unstable software downloads, and failed hard drives. Create an exact copy of your PC and restore it from a major failure in minutes, or back up important files and recover them even faster. New!One-click™ protection Initially, you decide what, where and when to back up. After that, backups occur automatically or with just one click. New!Full text search Search for file name and/or content within an archive, using Windows or Google™— desktop search. Making reserve copies of your backups You can make reserve copies of your backups and save them on a network drive, or a USB storage device. You have a choice of making a reserve copy as regular (flat) files, a zip compressed file, and a tib file. New!Zip archive format support available In addition to Acronis' powerful TIB data compression backup format, one of the most densely compressed backup file types available to consumers, Acronis True Image Home 2009 also supports the popular ZIP® format. Consolidation You can define rules for consolidating your archives to reduce storage space. Merge an older full backup with several incremental backups to quickly create a new full backup; subsequent backups are based on the newly-created full backup. New!Windows Vista® -style Interface The new, sleek interface of this product works on Microsoft® Windows XP and Vista operating systems.

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Acronis Snap Deploy 3.0 for PCs+ 1year maintenance

Acronis Snap Deploy 3.0 is a comprehensive deployment solution that enables organizations to deploy new machines quickly and easily.

Using Acronis' own award-winning disk imaging technology, the product creates an exact disk image of the standard configuration, including the operating system and all applications. It then deploys that image to multiple systems simultaneously, making it ideal for rapid bare-metal installations of PCs and servers. Businesses have the option to deploy new machines using both the multicast and unicast protocols, providing maximum flexibility.

Acronis Snap Deploy 3.0 also provides configuration management tools to configure system settings, manage files, and execute applications on systems throughout the network.

New Features introduced in 3.0:
- Wake-on-LAN allows remote boot of shut down computers even if they are not located in one network with Acronis Deploy Server.
- Deployment scheduling enables flexible deployment planning.
- A centralized management console provides the ability to create and manage deployment tasks from one location.
- Flexible licensing for both workstations and servers.
- Custom deployment enables authorized end-users to self-deploy systems by choosing a pre-configured deployment task from the network boot menu.

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Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange+ 1_year maint.

Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange is the fastest backup and restore purpose-built solution on the market. It provides granular restore from the database level allowing for recovery of information stores, individual storage groups, mailboxes or specific emails. You get the best of both worlds: A very fast solution with the flexibility to recover at a very detailed level. Combined with Near Continuous Data Protection (CDP), Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange can restore to the point just prior to failure. All this at a price/performance point that is attractive to enterprise and small/medium sized businesses alike. -It backs up Exchange servers FASTER... Cut your backup times dramatically. - It restores FASTER... In about seconds, users can be back to work sending and receiving e-mails. - It's cost effective... You'll use less network drives and cut your administrative overhead. - It's easier... Our interface makes short work of setting up a professional backup plan perfectly tailored to your organizations recovery objectives. - It's more secure... Recover all of your server data, all of your messages, every time with our always-vigilant data protection. - It's smarter... Protect individual messages, folders during database backup and eliminate the need for time-consuming brick-level backups.

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Acronis Migrate Easy 7.0

With Acronis Migrate Easy 7.0 you can:

— Clone an old hard disk drive to a new one
— Install new hard disk drive as a boot disk or as an additional storage device
— Manage hard disk partitions: create, resize, copy, delete partitions
— Resize transferred partitions to match new hard disk size
— Use large disks over 180 Gb

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Acronis Drive Cleanser 6.0+ 1-year maintenance

Acronis Drive Cleanser 6.0 guarantees the complete destruction of data on selected partitions and/or entire disks.

With Acronis Drive Cleanser you can:
— Delete all the sensitive data from an old or leased PC
— Wipe the entire hard disk or individual partitions
— Format the hard disk, divide it on partitions
— Use 8 national data destruction standards
— Review the results of hard disk wiping through built-in DiskViewer utility

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Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 Upgrade

This is an upgrade to the latest version of Acronis Disk Director Suite.
If you have purchased such versions of Acronis Disk Director Suite as Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0 and Acronis Disk Director 9.0 Personal, as well as Acronis Partition Expert, Acronis Partition Expert Personal, Acronis OS Selector, Acronis Disk Editor, Acronis Recovery Expert, Acronis Power Utilities, Acronis Power Utilities 2005 before, you can easily upgrade them to Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0.

Acronis Disk Director Suite allows you to perform basic as well as advanced disk management operations. With this tool you can resize, move, copy, split, merge, restore and explore partitions without losing your data. The product allows you to install multiple operating systems on your PC and detect operating systems that became unbootable due to some accidental reasons. You can also select the hard disk drive you want to boot from.

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Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0

With Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 you can:

— New! Split or merge partitions and leave your data intact
— New! Detect operating systems that became unbootable and make them bootable again
— Manage hard disk partitions: resize, copy, move, delete partitions
— Install and boot operating system from any partition of any hard disk
— Recover lost or deleted partitions Delivery

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Acronis Disk Director Server10 +1_year maintenance

Acronis Disk Director Server 10 is the only comprehensive partition and disk management suite that can help you manage partitions, recover accidentally lost or deleted partitions, install multiple operating systems on your server and even more. With Acronis Disk Director Server 10 you can: - resize, move, copy, split, and merge partitions without losing your data. - perform advanced operations on your hard disk drive, such as restoration of boot records and hexadecimal editing. - recover accidentally lost or deleted partitions. -wipe out all data from a deleted partition and from unallocated space. Also Acronis Disk Director Server 10.0: - supports latest and most robust operating system to date. - creates scripts for application tasks. - you can view all actions performed using the application.

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ATI Microsoft Small Business Server+ 1_year maint.

Small businesses face the same IT challenges as larger organizations, but they are more vulnerable when it comes to recovering from a disaster. Small companies are dependent on fewer servers, generally have smaller IT staffs, and fewer technical resources than a large enterprise so data recovery requires relatively more personnel and technological assets than those of large companies. In fact, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics states that 93% of all companies that experience "significant data loss" are out of business within five years. As a result, even a single critical server failure could have a dramatic impact on a small business' financial and IT health. For disaster recovery and system migration in both physical and virtual environments in a Microsoft Small Business Server environment, Acronis® True Image for Microsoft® Windows Small Business Server delivers greater flexibility and value for networked small business servers. Is server downtime costing you thousands of dollars an hour? Acronis True Image for MS Small Business Server is a comprehensive small business server backup and disaster recovery solution that allows you to get back to business as quickly as possible, minimizing downtime. Here are the Top 7 features for a small business: - Acronis Universal Restore — restore to different hardware or to a virtual server - Exclude files from backups — Capture only business data and save space in storage archive - Backup image encryption - Boot from an image, using Acronis Active Restore™ (a patent pending technology) — Decrease downtime by allowing systems to be used during recovery - Throttling to control hard disk write speed and network bandwidth usage — Minimize disruptions of business operations - Scheduling and Notifications — Includes event-driven backups, periodic backup validations, and schedule cloning - Modify images — Mount images in read/write mode and apply changes directly, such as removing viruses and malware from existing images

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ATI Echo Workstation+ 1-year maintenance

Acronis True Image Echo Workstation is a must-have backup program for any office. It backs up data on standalone PCs as well as any machine on a network. Should it come to a system crash, youll be able to perform disaster recovery and retrieve your data in minutes, rather than hours or days! With True Image, you can implement granular backup and restore of particular files and folders, or create an image of the entire system in no time. Your backups can be saved to virtually any location: CD/DVD, a hard disk, virtual server, networked machine and so on. You can also use the great opportunity of backing up to Acronis Secure Zone a hidden partition on your hard drive, which is accessible for Acronis wizards only. It eliminates the threat of deleting or infecting your backups for even more security. You are free to decide on the time of performing backup operations Acronis offers you the option of scheduling tasks. You can also implement full, differential or incremental backup that is to take a snapshot of your machine (full) and then back up all changes since that (differential) or all changes since the previous backup (incremental). To facilitate the administration of backup operations, Acronis embedded Acronis Management Console in its powerful tool. From the Management Console, you can access and control all systems on your network. More to that, another utility Acronis Backup Server allows you to optimize the usage of storage resources on your network. If you need to recover your system after an unforeseen event, you can easily do it in no time! Besides, you dont have to wait till the procedure is completed: press the F11 key on boot up, access Acronis True Image and resume your work without waiting for Windows to boot. You can restore your backup image to bare metal, virtual machine, network location or even dissimilar hardware! Acronis True Image Echo Workstation is an ideal solution for those who care about their office desktop data.

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ATI Echo Server for Windows + 1-year maintenance

Acronis True Image Echo Server for Windows is the most reliable, flexible and easy-to-use server backup solution ever! Backup data and program files in no time and recover the entire server without losing your data! There’s no need to reconfigure your computer after the recovery procedure – all your settings will be preserved. Acronis has boasted its bare-metal restore technology for a long time and now even P2V migration is a simple task: an add-on utility Acronis Universal Restore allows you to restore your backup files to different hardware or to a virtual environment.

Acronis does its best to meet the demands of its customers and embeds enhanced functionality into the True Image product family. This solution enables you to perform full, incremental and differential server backup. It can image your whole server or implement granular backup and recovery of selected files and folders.

You may schedule backup tasks, compress and encrypt images, exclude certain types of files from backups and much more!

To eliminate the risk of infecting or damaging your backup files, save them to Acronis Secure Zone – a hidden partition on your hard drive seen by Acronis wizard only. When it comes to disaster recovery, you can minimise downtime, getting back to work in seconds – use the opportunity to run True Image directly from your boot drive even if Windows hasn't loaded yet. All you need to do is press the F11 key on boot-up.

All Acronis’ products have an intuitive XP-like wizard to facilitate backup and restore operations. There is also command line interface, supporting scripts. True Image supports both 32 and 64-bit processors, and a broad range of the most popular Microsoft Windows operating systems: from NT 4.0 Server to Vista. With Acronis True Image Echo Server for Windows you’ll quickly recover from any unforesen event and stay in business 24/7!

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ATI Echo Server for Linux + 1-year-maintenance

Acronis True Image Echo Server for Linux is the best backup software for Linux servers. You can create a live image of your Linux server and restore it in no time in case of an unforeseen event. All your databases, OSes, apps and user settings are sure to remain intact no data loss is guaranteed! You can restore your image to bare-metal, different hardware or even a networked location. In addition, Acronis True Image reduces downtime, allowing you to get back to work in minutes. Due to the exclusive Acronis Drive Snapshot technology, backup operations are carried out without interrupting your working process. You can stay up and running 24x7x365! Acronis True Image allows you to perform 3 types of backup: full backup (a snapshot of the whole server), differential backup (all changes since this state of your system) and incremental backup (all changes since the previous backup). You can also back up and restore particular files and folders, or even selected file types. Scheduling operations is also available to you. For the peace of mind, you can choose the option of receiving e-mail notifications after your backup tasks are accomplished. To ensure that your backup files are adequately protected, Acronis True Image offers you the ability to encrypt your images and save them to Acronis Secure Zone a special partition on your hard drive seen by Acronis wizards only. So your data wont get damaged or wiped out whatever happens. You can also password-protect your backups for even more security. You can create CDs with bootable images and bootable recovery media ISOs, which will eliminate the need to have separate recovery media and provide flexibility for application management. Plus you may modify your images mount them in the read/write mode and apply changes directly. Acronis True Image supports both 64- and 32-bit processors. All your backup operations will appear even simpler with the intuitive user interface of Acronis True Image Echo Server for Linux!

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ATI Echo Enterprise Server+ 1_year maintenace

Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server is the backup solution of choice for thousands of system administrators. It allows you to instantly create an image of your server with all data, operating systems, applications and user settings onboard. Should it come to a hard drive failure, Acronis True Image will quickly restore everything you backed up without data loss. You can also use the server image to migrate your system to a new physical or even virtual location. The exclusive Acronis Universal Restore utility enables you to restore your server to bare-metal and to dissimilar hardware. Acronis True Image provides you with the opportunity to carry out backup operations without interrupting your server procedures, which ensures 24x7 availability. You can back up and restore the entire server or particular databases, selecting or deselecting corresponding files. For even more convenience when devising your backup strategy, Acronis True Image allows you to perform a full backup of your system, a backup of all changes since this (differential backup) or backup of all changes since the previous backup (incremental backup). You can schedule your backup tasks and even receive e-mail notifications after a backup operation is finished. For security purposes, you can encrypt or password-protect your backup files and save them to Acronis Secure Zone – a special partition on your hard drive seen by Acronis wizards only. One more useful feature embedded in Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server is the ability to efficiently exercise remote management of backup processes. With Acronis Management Console, you can access all machines on your network from one central location. Acronis True Image supports all most popular Microsoft OSes (from 2000 editions to Vista), Linux systems and major virtualization OSes from VMware, SWsoft and Parallels. The XP-like interface of Acronis True Image facilitates the work with the utility and helps you breeze through backup operations.

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ASD 3.0 for Servers+ 1-year maintenance

Acronis Snap Deploy is a comprehensive deployment solution that enables organizations to deploy new machines quickly and easily. Using Acronis' own award-winning disk imaging technology, the product creates an exact disk image of the standard configuration, including the operating system and all applications. It then deploys that image to multiple systems simultaneously, making it ideal for rapid bare-metal installations of PCs and servers. New features: - Deploy to different hardware with Acronis Universal Deploy — Ensure that your new systems will boot by allowing you to add drivers and create templates for specific hardware. - Fully automated deployment — New deployment options include Wake-on-LAN, deployment scheduling and a centralized management console to manage deployment tasks. - Specialized deployment — Deploy both new and older systems using one solution. - Standalone image deployment — Helps administrators to deploy systems even if network is not accessible. - Customizable deployment options — Maximize the performance of new machines by allowing partitions to be resized. Ensure that machines are properly deployed by providing options to reboot or shutdown after the master image is applied. - Enhanced PXE server — More easily create a PXE by specifying default configurations and timeout parameters for reboot. - Fully compatible with Acronis Snap Deploy 2.0 and other Acronis products — Acronis Snap Deploy 3 for Servers is capable to deploy images created with Acronis Snap Deploy 2.0 and Acronis True Image Echo.

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YAHOO! SITE MAP: A USEFUL INTERNET MARKETING TOOL

A website refers to a compilation of Web pages that can be typically accessed through a software package, commonly known as a Web browser (one example is the HTTP on the Internet). These pages, which are essentially documents that are in the HTML or XHTML format (HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language), are accessed from a 'common root URL' - or the website's homepage (as most people know it). From this homepage, the visitor/Internet user can browse or look through the entire website either with the use of the hyperlinks or the URLs of the different web pages.

Viewed on computers and other devices that are capable of connecting with the Internet (such as PDAs and cellular phones), websites can be grouped into numerous types, depending on their use or the services that they offer. Some of them include the following:

· Archive site - maintains and protects electronic contents that are valuable to the point of extinction.

· Business site - promotes a business or a service.

· Commerce or eCommerce site - offers goods for sale.

· Community site - allows people with related and similar interests to communicate with each other (either through chat or message boards).

· Database site - searches and displays a particular database's content.

· Development site - provides data and sources that are related to software development and web design, among others.

· Directory site - contains wide-ranging contents that are usually divided into categories and subcategories.

· Download site - allows users to download electronic contents, such as game demos and software.

· Game site - provides a 'playground' where people meet and play.

· Information site - contains data or content that have the sole purpose of informing visitors (not for commercial purposes).

· News site - dispenses or distributes news and commentaries (similar to an information site).

· Pornography site - shows pornographic videos and images.

· Search engine site - provides general information and serves as a 'gateway' for other sites and resources (can also be a web portal site).

· Shock site - shows images and other materials that aim to offend viewers.

· Vanity site - a personal site that is run or maintained by an individual or a small group, the contents of which can be of any information that the site owner wishes to include.

· Blog site or blogs - registers online readings and posts online diaries or discussion forums.

· Wiki site - allows users to collaboratively edit the contents.

Yahoo! is perhaps the most famous example of a very large website. The most popular and widely-used website, Yahoo! is a mixture of the different types of sites - it is a directory site and a search engine site, among others.

Because of the enormous (and diverse) amount of information that it contains, the Yahoo! site map is an extremely useful feature in the Yahoo! website.

A site map is a web page that lists the entire pages on a web site. Organized in a hierarchical fashion, site maps can be in textual or visual form (a diagram or an image).

The Yahoo! site map serves as a blueprint for the Yahoo! website. Similar to a book's Table of Contents, the Yahoo! sitemap makes it easier for visitors or users to find specific information or pages on the Yahoo! web site without having to browse many pages, because the site map gives an overview or a visual outline of the Yahoo! web site, with each location provided with active links to enable the user to directly move to a specific location.

In addition, the Yahoo! site map allows web developers to put out links from across their sites, making it easier for search engine robots (or engine spiders) to find these pages.

Because the Yahoo! site map improves the search engine optimization of a site, this feature can be considered a valuable tool for online marketers, whose aim is to stimulate and direct traffic to their web sites.

Note, however, that the Yahoo! site map can only give you the 'basics'. Because it is important for web marketers to 'rank high' on main search engines, an effective web marketing strategy that promotes your web site is also very much needed. Listed below are some search engine strategies to consider:

1. Write a descriptive page title at the top of your webpage that avoids 'filler' words like "the" or "and".

2. Incorporate descriptive keywords on your home page, along with your business name. This is called "keyword prominence".

3. Include a Description Meta Tag at the top of the web page. This refers to the sentences (1 or 2 lines, with a maximum of around 255 characters) that describe the content of your web page.

These are just some of the many techniques that you can employ to get more users to visit your website. The important thing is to focus on keywords - and let Yahoo! site map do the rest.

Sitemap taxonomy - To classify web content

Sitemap taxonomy is a way to classify the tremendous amount of information available on the World Wide Web. Organizing web content is a lot of work that requires manpower and money. But creating sitemap taxonomy is a process that must be done in order to make information readily available to users.

Often times the information is there but users are unable to access it. With the sitemap taxonomy, web content is arranged in such a way that the user will be able to use it effectively. As it is more and more users are flooded with information that is useless to them thus creating frustration.

Impact of sitemap taxonomy to Internet marketing

Sitemap taxonomy can be a big boost to Internet marketing. The whole purpose of being on the web is to get exposure to a wider audience of potential customers. Unfortunately, the overflow of information often makes it impossible for searchers or browsers to find what they need.

Most of the time online users form searches that often turn up useless or non-relevant results. This is not only frustrating for users but also for any company advertised on the web. Users are left guessing the right keyword they need to use in order to get the information they need off the web.

Unfortunately not all users have the patience to keep guessing until they find the right keyword. More often than not, users will give up their search and go on with another search. This can mean lost sales for any company on the web that doesn't have a sitemap taxonomy.

Building a sitemap taxonomy

Many people may think that building sitemap taxonomy is an easy simple process of putting together keywords. Sorry to say, sitemap taxonomy is a demanding task however it does have its rewards. With an effective sitemap taxonomy in place, a website is more likely to get more traffic that would translate into profits.

Working out a sitemap taxonomy is often a trial and error process. It requires using the right terms that users are better acquainted with, in order for them to find their way through the site. At the same time, using the wrong terms may make it impossible for users to find what they need within the site.

There are generally two sets of online users that should benefit from the sitemap taxonomy, browsers and searchers. Browsers often use the sitemap taxonomy to find their way within a site while searchers use online search engines to find the information they need. No matter what type of user is involved, the sitemap taxonomy should address the needs of both users. Enabling either user to find the content they need.

Do-it-yourself sitemap taxonomy

The best candidate for creating the sitemap taxonomy of a site is the company itself or the individual behind the website content. Although hiring a professional to create the sitemap taxonomy of the site is an option, it is best that someone with firsthand knowledge of the website's content do it. There are a number of important aspects to consider before doing the sitemap taxonomy.

Keep in mind that in general the sitemap taxonomy should be extensive not profound. Putting together profound sitemap taxonomy may only make matters worse as the user will have a difficult time finding the subject matter they need. It is also best to use basic terms instead of advertising jargon that can be easily understood by all.

When structuring the sitemap taxonomy, it is important to maintain some exactness at the highest levels. This helps make it easier for users to navigate the site and find the information they need. It is also a good idea to limit the number of items under each level from two to seven subject matters. If not then it is best to combine subject matters for a more efficient sitemap taxonomy.

Take into account that sitemap taxonomy is not an exact science. It requires constant fine-tuning in order to produce an effective sitemap taxonomy. However the entire process will pay off big in the long run as users who are more likely to find what they need are those more likely to spend money.

Sitemap Creator

An important tip to remember every now and then is that people visit the site checking out for some information. These Surfers can be an unforgiving lot. Once they found things useful for them in a site they would definitely visit every now and then.

The reason why site maps are indispensable is due to its helpfulness in letting the surfers understand the site program and plan and therefore, speed up the way to onset to what the site will be showcasing. This is a part of the website created where the edifice of a web site can be visible to a surfer or visitor. These visitors can choose the link to where they want to surf with just a touch of the mouse of keyboard.

Here are Significant key pointers of a good site map, which helps visitors at finding information faster on a web site:

· The site map should be the simplest page on the web site.
· Keep the name "Site Map" so those visitors won't be having a hard time looking for it.
· Always avoid "dynamic" site maps. Those in which the visitors have to find their way easily to get hold of information.
· If the site map is list of text links, use the TITLE attribute of the anchor tag and include keywords inside it.
· Putting a sentence describing the page contents below the link for that page on a site map is always good.
· It should not be the primary navigation on the web site it should complement it.
· It is very important that there is a link to the site map page and all pages should carry this link. The site map link can be combined with other links in the main menu on the web site or placed at a section on the web page from which is it clearly seen.
· Other important factors on a web site should complement site maps. For example, the link color for visited links should be different from that of not yet visited links so that visitors have a clear idea which pages they have already seen and thus, save time.

In addition to the advantages a site map showcase to "living" surfers, it is also significant for robot surfers from search engines . As a web developer should be aiming to get all visible pages on the web site found in the search engine database. As expected a site map, from one page to another, should carry links to all, it is an ideal form to submit to search engines . Submission of the site map to a search engine might help in getting all web pages indexed quickly by the search engine. I may be incorrect since I have no data to support this point but it just seems logical. However, on a similar note, there is still a limit to all the information that a search engine could provide a visitor. For example, if there’s a page which is not found in the directory program of the web site, it will not be detected other search engines. With this in mind, another importance of a site map it tells the search engine instantly to go to a specifc page rather than scouting through the links.

Two important questions:
1. Will the website appear as it was planned even for robots?
2. Are the pages exact and effectively designed?
Having a site map assists the creator in planning the site before he can even start creating it. Once the pages have been decided, the whole thing becomes simpler and the web pages designs are easily matched to the creator’s ideas.

There are 5 important tips in making a good site map:

Good Site Must-Have 1
The logo should be linked to the website homepage.

Good Site Must-Have 2
The Site map must be place either on top or on the upper left, under the header. Unless everything’s in order already and sure about the design, never try to alter or make changes for a while.

Good Site Must-Have 3
There must be a congenial way to go around searching the web site. Do not place the site map in a location that is different from one page to another, like if it is placed horizontally on one page, it should be placed horizontally on the rest of the other pages. However, the case is different if it is a navigation system for a homepage. This could differ in homepages.

Good Site Must-Have 4
Additionally, the logo of the homepage should be linked with a “HOME” or any equivalent sign for easy work around or navigation. There should also be a “contact us,” “about our site,” pages to be visited.

Good Site Must-Have 5
The golden rule for a good site map is that the number of a visitor’s clicks should be leading him every step of the way and not jumping to other pages. It is required that the move should be as easy, reliable and above all, very user-friendly.

How to create a sitemap

A sitemap of a website is similar to the table of contents of a book. Sitemaps are important because it guides web surfers to the particular part of the website they have a point of interest in. With it they would save time following links and get right to the point instead.

Sitemaps are also where search engines look at if somebody is looking for a particular keyword or phrase. If you have a site map, you can most likely be searched.

Creating a sitemap, now with software technology surging in, is relatively easier than before. You need not be a programming guru to be one. All need is a notepad, a program editor, and some patience. Here’s how you do it:

Create the listing on a notepad.
It doesn’t necessarily have to be a notepad. Any word processing program will do. First off, make sure to type in all the parts and pieces of your website. Include all pages and all links you have. Create it as if you listing the contents of your book. Make a draft first. You’re sure no to miss something out this way.

Create a new page for your sitemap.
You can insert the sitemap on your website on one of its pages or you can create an entirely different page for it. Using your notepad, incorporate all tags necessary to it to make another webpage. Open up your website creator program and tag your sitemap using it. If you have created your website on your own, this will be easy for you.

Create a link for the sitemap.
You won’t be able to view the sitemap if you won’t put a link for it, of course. Create the link on the front page of your website so that visitors can view it right away and be directed appropriately.

Check your work.
It is important to validate the functionality of the links you created on the sitemap. Test each and every one in there and if you get an error, be sure to fix it accurately. Run through every single page to make sure that all are accounted for.

Upload your work.
Place the sitemap now on your live browser and double check it. It should function as smoothly as the dry run. Error should be minimal at this stage since you already have verified it locally.

The steps provided herewith is the manual way of creating a sitemap. These days, if you search hard enough on the web, you will find online programs that will do all these work for you. All you have to do it type in the URL or the link of your website and they will create the sitemap with click of a button.

Of course that method is generic. All of you who have created their sitemap that way will have an end product that is all the same, plus there’s that possibility that something else will be inserted in there too. Then again, the process is less taxing and way, way simpler.

But if you want a more personalized output, and you are pretty good with computers and programming yourself, better make one of your own. And since you made your website anyway, creating sitemap is just like creating any other page on the website. Other than you’ll know for sure the links are accurate, you can organize the links the way you prefer it to be. Major parts of the site are emphasized compared to less significant. This is important especially if you are selling products or offering services online.

Sitemap is vital to a website. People search the web a lot for something. If your website has what that particular person is looking for, and your sitemap reports it, then you have a new customer looking at your items. Not only that, they will see some other things up for sale that they might be interested in as well.

Sitemaps, be it generated by a program automatically or you made it yourself, presents the same purpose. That is to lead your visitors to where they’re likely headed, and for you to be seen on the World Wide Web through search spiders. So with these, make sure your website has a sitemap of its own, lest make one.

Mapping Your Way to a Good HTML Site Map

Ever wondered what site maps are for?

In any internet marketing endeavor, the best thing to do is to maintain a good linkage and to always stay indexed. There many ways available to you online to have your web site indexed and spidered. Using HTML site maps is a way you can utilize to make sure that your site is up to date in the internet and search engine database.

What is a site map?

A site map basically is a page that features or lists the links you have on your web site. This will make it easier for search engines to proceed and spider your web site. It is usually found near the bottom page of a web site.

Why are site maps important?

An HTML site map is important. It should contain the top level pages. In one page, there should be just about the right amount of links in it. The link should not exceed 100 for more favorable views.

There are certain benefits in having a good HTML sitemap. This generally would assure any potential customer to easily navigate the site, find exactly what they came to look for. The site map page will serve as a tool for your visitors. This way they will opt to visit your site more if they can easily browse and find their way in your web site. It can also ensure that your visitors can very well stay in your web site.

Good links will also ensure you that spiders will locate your web site easily each week. This will make your site indexed by the important search engines online. This will also avoid your site from being dropped.

However, HTML site maps may serve more important purpose than merely as another link to click on. The specific purpose you should consider in having a site map is to make it easier for search engine robots to ‘crawl’ in your web site. Pages are located by search engines through ‘crawling.’ It is a process that goes through the index of a page, following the links and adding the pages to the database.

The problem would come in when search engines fail to locate the page because links are not that accessible. It is the site map that will address this dilemma. Search engines will be given access to the different links in your web site simply by following the site map in your home page.

Here are some important pointers in creating your HTML site map.
1. Get tutorials on how to make your site map. There are available pages online that can give you a step-by-step guide in coming up with a good website.

2. You can also ensure that your site map looks good, to make it more pleasing to the eye of your visitor and to make navigation easier. You can get ideas for a properly designed site map online too.

3. Make sure that your site map will provide also the links to the important pages in your web site. This way your visitors will not get lost. At the same time you can ensure that your guests will still be able to get the general idea of your web site structure. It is advisable that you make links as simple as possible.

4. Make the link to your site map as visible and obvious as possible in your homepage. Visitors should not spend too much time in locating it or else you might end up losing them.

5. A site map serves more like a table of contents of your website. It should provide all of the different sections of your internet site with all the information and data that may be found in each section.

6. Each of the contents in your site map must have a hyperlink to its respective URL.

7. If you will have to give way to numerous links, you can make use of several pages. You could numbers each site-map page or you could also make use of the contents in naming each site-map.

Having an HTML site map will furthermore help you in maximizing traffic to your web site. Just make sure that your homepage as well all the internal pages are properly indexed. Creating a site map will definitely make things more efficient for you. The links to all the pages in your website will be directly connected to your homepage.

Aim high for your internet marketing endeavors. The more links you have to your site, the higher is the possibility of getting a good rank among the major search engines, so don’t hesitate to learn the rules of the game and make yourself a sure winner.

SEO Sitemaps Give Websites a Boost

A lot of web pages will find an SEO sitemap useful in improving their performance. SEO stands for “Search Engine Optimization”, the process that aims to create or revise Internet sites so that it can be better found by search engines. The objective of SEO campaigns is to have websites appear in the top listing or first results page of search engines.

Internet search engines, such as Google and A9, maintain a very large database of Web pages and available files. To do this, they devise a program called a web crawler, or spider. This software automatically and continuously surfs and hunts content in the Web. Pages that the spider finds are retrieved and indexed according to text content, giving more weight to titles and paragraph headers. Spiders never stop navigating the web from page to page, to index the relevant content of the Internet. Besides looking at the text of titles and headers, some programs are able to identify default tags and keep a library of these page keywords or key phrases in the index.

When a user connects to the Internet types a query, which is automatically interpreted as keywords, the search engine scans the saved index and creates a list of web pages that is most appropriate to what the user is searching for.

SEO will use all the combined techniques of keyword analysis, smart code, good content literature, link popularity study and website organization to place the subject web page as high as possible in the list of search results in search engines. Web pages displayed on the top of results pages are assumed to get the most attention, and therefore, opportunity for earnings for web businesses and pages with sponsor links.

Search engines usually return a list of results ranking pages according to the number of Internet sites linked to them. Results can be classified as organic, or sponsored links. Sponsored links are shown prominently because their creators or agents paid the search engine. Sponsored links are the main source of income of search engines. “Organic” search results are the lists of actual results from the engines index and are directly related to the keyword typed in the request.
One of the more effective techniques of SEO is the creation of a well-organized site map in a website. Since the site’s main page and other content are directly linked to a site map, spiders can more easily move through the website, identify the key words of the content, and index these for a search engine. This is where the SEO sitemap helps the website creator or administrator.

Site maps are usually pages filled with links. These are shown as tables or lists, although lists are generally more effective. Writing code for SEO sitemaps is very easy and simple to format and maintain. These are ideally basic HTML pages with default tags, logical titles and keywords scattered in the Meta description. Introduction areas can contain more of the keywords. The site should have a main heading for every directory.

A simple list layout helps reduce unnecessary tags that might “hide” your keywords. Some spiders give more weight to the following, than text in the normal body of the webpage: heading text, content within link elements, text nearer the top of the page and the text written for a link. Therefore, writing the keywords and links in these areas could somehow move up the web page’s ranking. This goes for SEO sitemaps as well.

Web sites should be designed consistently, so navigation models should follow the flow of the site map. Therefore, the first section in the site map should be the first link in the navigation bar.

In an SEO Sitemap, and most pages, the headings contain title attributes where more key phrases in the site map can be added. Keywords are generally well chosen and written in the body of a webpage. However, in an SEO site map with little text, key words should be added as much as possible. As much as possible, web links should follow web page titles, and must undergo SEO during coding. Care must be exercised not to cram the page with keywords and links, or the page will be interpreted as blatant spamming and not receive any traffic at all.

There is no way to guarantee that a website will be shown in the topmost ranking of "organic" search results for an extended period of time. However, smart and responsible SEO sitemap techniques can be used to place the website high up in the search position. Regular monitoring and adjustment of the SEO Sitemap and search results would ensure that a website is kept near the top ranking and receiving lots of web user traffic.

Site Making Using Google

Businesses that want to sell something in the market need 2 things. The first is the product to be sold which has to be made then distributed to places like the grocery, the mall or the supermarket. The second is marketing which is the vehicle to carry that message across to the consumer so that people are aware of its existence then it is purchased.

The age of the internet has given people the opportunity to make money via the web. There are a lot of websites that offer a person the chance to be seen easily and quickly and one of the best right now is using site maps created by Google.

The benefits of using Google are the following;

· It helps people find ones web page better than other search engines because of better crawl coverage.

· People will be able to search on certain keywords that the person put in place which will directly lead searchers to ones website.

· It allows the person to provide specific information to Google about the web page such as the last time it was modified or how often it is changed.

· Using Google straight will allow ones web page to be seen quickly which is a lot better than other computer companies who promise to do the same thing but can’t deliver in the end.

Now that the benefits have been mentioned, it is now time to go through the step by step process to make a Google site map.

1. The first thing that needs to be done is to do the proper research. The service or product has to fill a need that the customers want right now. It should provide a solution of some kind that will make that will improve the quality of life either at home or at work.

2. Next, one should focus on the product or service that is being offered to the customer must be sold at a decent price. Sometimes, the product one makes is already available in the market. To be competitive, one must figure out a way to convince people as to why this product is better than the other leading brands available. What features does it have that the competitor doesn’t? What makes it unique which is not only about the product on hand but the service that this can give as well?

Just like a normal business where business is done on the phone or in a store, one must acquire the right equipment and machines for the job. These could be merchandise that is either physical or electronic and an online ordering system.

To be successful, one should be sure that the goods that a customer will order can be delivered on time. If there are any problems, a customer support staff or system should be ready to cater to that.

3. If the business is done with a group of people or a single proprietorship, it is best to brainstorm for the best domain name for the business. It should be catchy and will easily be remembered by people. Given that there are probably other people who have been in the business longer and that it is possible that the domain name has already been taken, it is best to think of several names in case it can no longer be used.

4. When a domain name has been selected, one should enter the URL of the website to be created. Google site maker will then crawl the site and create a list of all the links it can find.

5. Next, one should fix the control settings. Doing this will determine how frequent the contents of the site changes which will let Google know how often it should be crawled.

6. If there are certain URL’s that a person does not wish to be included in ones site, Google can be instructed to bypass it so that it will not be crawled and posted on ones site map. One can select what types of files to be bypassed whether these are .zip or .exe files.

7. Also, one has the option of adding the sites FTP information since Google can automatically upload the site map for the person.

Tips on Online Marketing

Marketing in a traditional sense has always been done by putting an ad either in the newspaper, the radio and the television.

Being in the digital age, efforts done by marketing to get the message across is not that different. It has just become a little more high tech which continues to help drive sales.

Businesses that want to sell something in the market need 2 things. The first is the product to be sold which later on will be distributed. The second is marketing which is the vehicle that is used to carry that message across to the consumer so that people are aware of its existence then it is purchased.

One way of the fastest ways of doing marketing today is building a website. Should one decide to shift and decide to do this, here are some tips one needs to know to get started.

1. The first thing to do is to determine what the person wants to do. The product has to fill a need that the customers want right now. It should provide a solution of some kind that will make that will improve the quality of life either at home or at work.

2. The next is to do the proper research. If the business is done with a group of people or a single proprietorship, it is best to brainstorm for the best domain name for the business. It should be catchy and will easily be remembered by people. Given that there are probably other people who have been in the business longer and that it is possible that the domain name has already been taken, it is best to think of several names in case it can no longer be used.

There are sites in the web that have search engines to look for a specific subject and using popular keywords for ones website will easily help people find it. These sites also allow one to make a site map which can be downloaded in minutes for a small fee.

Another good example is the various email sites and by doing a tie-up with these companies, one can get exposure as well as free service since people who do not have an account can also sign up and be an active member.

3. A product of good quality should be sold at a decent price. Sometimes, the product one makes is already available in the market. To be competitive, one must figure out a way to convince people as to why this product is better than the other leading brands available. What features does it have that the competitor doesn’t? What makes it unique which is not only about the product on hand but the service that this can give as well?

4. Just like having a normal business, one must acquire the right equipment and machines for the job. These could be merchandise that is either physical or electronic and an online ordering system.

To be successful, one should be sure that the goods that a customer will order can be delivered on time. If there are any problems, a customer support staff or system should be ready to cater to that.

5. It takes money to make more money so one should be careful with what needs to be spent. By putting in tight controls in terms of expenditures and keeping track of the current balance while maintaining the same level of quality saves money which can be used for other things.

To avoid falling in this predicament, the first thing one must do is manage the expenses. It is always good to carry a notebook around to log whatever expenses have been made or have a logbook to keep track how much balance is left. That way, a person can stay within a budget on a monthly basis.

6. With everything in place, it is now time to promote the site. One can email to friends about the site and what it offers then this too will also be forwarded and advertised to others. Another is showcasing ones website in E-zines or electronic magazines to get more customer traffic.

Any business big or small must have the right resources available to get the message across to the people and building a web site or a site map takes time. One can do it alone if that person knows how to do it, get professional help or simply start from the basics and learn it from the ground up.

Benefits of a generator sitemap

Generator sitemap programs can be downloaded from various sources on the Internet. Generator sitemap programs have two fundamental purposes. Generator sitemap programs help surfers navigate a site effectively. At the same time, a generator sitemap program encourages search engine spiders. Google offers one of the most popular generator sitemap programs ever to hit the Internet.

The generator sitemap of google makes it possible for a website to get listed and get updated by the google search engine. Setting up the generator sitemap helps speed up the addition of the web pages of a site to the google listing. The generator sitemap also makes it easier for a site to get noticed by online surfers. In addition, any changes made to a website that has a generator sitemap is immediately picked up by google. The generator sitemap also helps keep online information fresh and up-to-date for users.

Visibility is key to generator sitemap

Visibility is a major concern when using a generator sitemap. A website that is completely indexed has better chances of getting top search engine placement in page results. Many of the popular browsers used by searchers and that support java recognize generator sitemap programs. These include firefox and Internet explorer.

An online consumer that searches for a specific content on the web can immediately be directed to any one of the web pages of a particular site. The generator sitemap makes it easier for a search engine to provide accurate results from web pages they are familiar with.

Who can benefit from a generator sitemap?

A generator sitemap is highly recommended for websites that often do repeated modification of their web pages. A generator sitemap can be used for websites of any size, regardless of the number of web pages a site may contain.

Although using a generator sitemap is not a guarantee of increased site rankings, it does however provide a website a better opportunity of getting listed on a search engine.

Working with a generator sitemap

Most of the available generator sitemap programs available on the web make use of extensible markup language or XML. Similar to hypertext markup language or HTML, XML is used widely in blogs and syndicated feeds on the Internet. Each line of a XML code for a generator sitemap has a specific purpose.

The location or <.loc> identifies the name of the web page of a website. The line <.lastmod> indicates when the web page was last modified. The format for <.lastmod> can either be dd.mm.yyyy, dd.mm.yyyy hh:mm, dd/mm/yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm. Shortcuts can also be used to simply the assignment of dates to the cell.

<.changefreq> advises the search engine of a specific time frame when the web page is regularly updated. This can either be done on an hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or yearly basis. For web pages that are not updated, the value 'never' is used. <.priority> indicates the level of priority that a search engine should give a particular web page of a website. These levels range from 0.0 for least priority to 1.0 for high priority.

Creating a dynamic generator sitemap

Creating a dynamic generator sitemap is useful for websites containing various web pages. The google search engine makes it easy for users to adapt their google sitemap with the help of a python script.

The python script generates a sitemap using sitemap protocol. This creates a sitemap from either access logs, URL lists or from web server directories.

Tips for using a generator sitemap from google

As one of more popular search engines offering a generator sitemap for websites on the Internet, google offers a few tips for its loyal users. Using the google sitemap url encoder/decoder is helpful for submitting sitemaps to google. For websites that have numerous web pages, creating a sitemap can be a tremendous task. For this situation it is best to click on the column title in order to make it easier for a URL list to get sorted.

The google generator sitemap allows users to save their settings after creating a sitemap. Users can use these saved settings as a guideline for succeeding generator sitemap updates. The generator sitemap also recognizes the use of robots.txt files.

Using a generator sitemap is a positive move in getting top ranking on the Internet's top search engines as well as high visibility among online users.

Sitemaps 101 – Benefits of and Tips on Designing a Sitemap

Have you ever wondered how a search engine works? It must be fascinating figuring out how this search tool could direct you to several websites that are relevant to your keywords. Or, have you experienced instances where the link that supposedly contains your keywords is not exactly what you have in mind? You would probably think that there must be something wrong with the search engine that it generated irrelevant results.

How does a search engine work?
Two things figure greatly in making search engines work effectively and efficiently: the electronic search spider and the sitemap.

What is a sitemap?
A sitemap is basically a page or pages that serve/s as a directory by listing all the links to all documents and files found in a website. It is not merely a random listing of links, but organized in such a way that it gives the web user an idea of how all the information that can be found in the site fits into an outline or framework. It is like viewing the table of contents of a book, or viewing the “concept map” of the site’s content.

What is a spider?
In SEO language, spider is not an animal found in your closet. This electronic search spider is actually a bot which collects data and copies content to be stored in the search engine’s database when keywords are fed into the search dialogue box. The spider reads the content of the site and sends another bot to follow the links and copy the content contained in them.

What purpose does a sitemap serve?
A sitemap like any other map gives directions to a navigator. It primarily targets search engine spiders so that they are properly directed to your site and to the links where keywords entered in the search dialogue appears. As such, it is actually a useful tool in search engine optimization. A well organized site map would guide the spider to find the information it needs when keywords are entered during a search operation.

As an additional beneficial consequence, sitemaps have proven to be useful even to web users. Since a sitemap displays all the links to information found in a website, it helps the user to search for a particular topic in mind. Many users also use the sitemap to navigate between pages in a site.

What are the benefits of having a sitemap for my website?

1. No page would be left unturned
Going back to the purpose of sitemaps, having one would mean faster and easier tracking and crawling of spiders all over your site. As a result, search engines would surely get to the view all the pages of your site and not just the pages containing random keywords.

2. Easier navigation for site visitors
Once a web user has accessed your sitemap, they need not go back to the search engine page to look for what they need. If what they are looking for is in your site, then they would have an easier and faster way of locating it.

3. Potential advertising value
If it so happens that a relevant product or service company reaches your site, then it would be easier for them to see how best they can position themselves in the different pages of your site as a paid page advertisement.

4. Encourage greater traffic to your site
If your company website has a sitemap then potential buyers would have an easier time in accessing your latest products and services. Moreover, they would not miss out on any product that might be off future interest to them since the sitemap would display all information found the site.

How are sitemaps formatted?
There are at least three major types of sitemaps: indexed, full categorical, and restricted categorical. An indexed site map appears as an alphabetical listing or directory.
A full categorical map displays all links classified into categories; while a restricted categorical sitemap displays all links listed in a chosen category at a time. The full and restricted sitemaps are very similar except that the former displays all links in all categories all at once in a page, while the latter focuses only the links under the selected category for easier and less eye-straining viewing.

The most widely used format is the full categorical. Based on the results of a 1999 SURL study on sitemap designs, the full categorical format is most preferred by users since it is easier to search for topics within the site and it allows easier comparison between and among categories.

Some tips in setting up your sitemap

1. Link the sitemap only to your homepage.
This is to ensure that the spider starts searching from your homepage down to all the pages listed in your sitemap. In this way, no page would be left unvisited by the spider.

2. Do not go beyond 30 pages for a sitemap.
Large websites having 50 or more pages should not go beyond 30 since this adds more pages to the site, and might make search engines think that the sitemap is a link farm. Also, this prevents overcrowding of links which could be tiring to view.

3. Check all the links listed in your sitemap.
It can be discouraging when you click on a link only to find out that nothing is displayed. Test your sitemap; click all links in every page to make sure that all links are indeed linked to the right page.

4. Give keyword-rich titles to sitemap links.
Keyword-rich titles give your site more advantage in being searched properly under the right category. But be sure to have this sitemap link linked back to the sitemap (e.g. back to sitemap).

5. Provide a short description for the links in the sitemap.
Doing so would give readers a better idea of what to find in the link and save them time on surfing.

6. Be consistent in designing your sitemap with the other pages of the site.
Employ a recurring design and the same HTML template for all pages to establish identity and build character to your website.

Now that you have learned basic things about sitemaps, maybe it is time for you to build one for your site.