I would like to get suggestions on how to create a sitemap for a website that was done with vsd. the site is already done do I have to recreate this website or is there a way to add a sitemap?

Do you have CC's site mapper?

I'd definitely recommend Coffee Cup's Sitemapper. It's waaaay easier than doing it by hand.

If you prefer to do it manually, are you planning on making a site map for both your visitors and web crawlers? For your visitors, you can just create a list with all of your links included in it, kind of like a tree of sorts. For the crawlers/bots you'd have to do something like this and save it as an xml document:



Doing it manually is fine if your site isn't updated regularly or doesn't have a lot of pages, but it's well worth the money to buy the the Sitemapper: http://www.coffeecup.com/sitemapper/ That way all you have to do is run the program and upload the files. It takes like 2 minutes, compared to the hour or more you'd spend doing it on your own.

I like to be lazy where I can

I purchased sitemapper after i posted this, but i uploaded the map but for some reason it does not show on the website, what am i doing wrong? I hate sounding helpless but.....

Hi Annette,

The Sitemapper exports a few different things, which all need to be uploaded in order for a sitemap to be displayed:

cssimages folder (folder image contents may vary, depending on theme)
sitemap.htm
sitemap.xml
sitemap.css

If you don't upload them all the site map won't display correctly.

You also need to add a link on your site in VSD.

Your sitemap.xml made it.
http://www.abettercomputerservice.com/sitemap.xml

thank you Eric!

Head over to Google and set yourself up an account so you can use webmaster tools and submit that puppy. You'll need to verify your site first then you'll be able to submit the map to Google.
https://support.google.com/webmasters/b … swer=35179